SKI PATROL LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Ventricular Fibrillation - ✔✔Chaotic and ineffective contraction of the ventricles that
leads to cardiac arrest
✔✔Ventricular Tachycardia - ✔✔Rapid contraction of ventricles that lead to ineffective
blood flow to body tissues that leads to cardiac arrest
✔✔Nitroglycerin - ✔✔Dilates blood vessels - Put under tongue and let it dissolve
✔✔OPQRST - ✔✔Onset, Provokes, Quality, Radiates, Severity, Time
✔✔Kinematics - ✔✔Studies the movement of body segments
✔✔Mechanism of Injury (MOI) - ✔✔Force that produced the injury (Direct, twisting,
hyperextension, indirect)
✔✔Five major MOIs - ✔✔Blunt, Penetrating, Rotational, Crush, Blast
✔✔Pre-Injury Phase - ✔✔Events and Conditions leading up to the injury
✔✔Injury Phase - ✔✔Period during which energy is transferred through a patient's body
✔✔Index of Suspicion - ✔✔Evaluating a patient and the initial assumption of how the
injury was sustained and the severity of it
✔✔Level 1 Trauma Center - ✔✔24 hour, in-house trauma surgeons, ongoing research
and surgical residency program
✔✔Level 2 Trauma Center - ✔✔Level 1 without research or residency
✔✔Level 3 Trauma Center - ✔✔Trauma surgeon available, not every subspecialist
✔✔Level 4 and 5 Trauma Center - ✔✔Trained trauma nurses and a physician available,
basic resuscitative measures
✔✔Skin Function - ✔✔Protection, excretion, prevent fluid loss
✔✔Thermal Burn - ✔✔Heat comes in direct contact with skin
Management: Flush w/ water, do not cold compress or pop blister
✔✔Chemical Burn - ✔✔Burn from exposure to caustic substances.
Management: Call hazmat, irrigate
, ✔✔Electrical Burn - ✔✔Burn from exposure to electrical current
Management: Backboard, CPR if necessary, look for points of entry/exit
✔✔Radiation Burn - ✔✔Burn from exposure to element, object, substance that emits
radiation
Management: Call hazmat
✔✔1st degree burn - ✔✔Superficial thickness, epidermis, red skin no blister
✔✔2nd degree burn - ✔✔Partial thickness, epidermis/dermis, blisters and wet-like skin
✔✔3rd degree burn - ✔✔Full thickness, epidermis/dermis/subcutaneous, skin is charred
white and dry
✔✔4th degree burn - ✔✔Extends to bone/muscle, blackened skin
✔✔Critical burns - ✔✔2nd degree over 10% area, kids under ten, adults over 65,
inhalation, chemical/electrical burns, burns on head/feet/hands/neck/genitals/major
joints
✔✔Musculoskeletal system - ✔✔Allows body to perform organized movement and
stand/walk upright
✔✔Axial bones - ✔✔Skull, vertebrae, thoracic cage
✔✔Appendicular bones - ✔✔bones of shoulders, legs, arms, etc.
✔✔Long bones - ✔✔Produce blood cells - humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tib/fib
✔✔Flat bones - ✔✔Protect organs - skull, ribs, sternum, pelvis
✔✔Irregular - ✔✔2 or more functions - wrist
✔✔Periosteum - ✔✔Thin covering of bone
✔✔Cortex - ✔✔Hard outer layer, contains marrow
✔✔Cartilage - ✔✔Tough, elastic, fibrous tissue
✔✔Articular cartilage - ✔✔cartilage affixed to the end of a bone within a joint
✔✔Types of joints - ✔✔Ball and socket, hinge, gliding, pivot, suture
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Ventricular Fibrillation - ✔✔Chaotic and ineffective contraction of the ventricles that
leads to cardiac arrest
✔✔Ventricular Tachycardia - ✔✔Rapid contraction of ventricles that lead to ineffective
blood flow to body tissues that leads to cardiac arrest
✔✔Nitroglycerin - ✔✔Dilates blood vessels - Put under tongue and let it dissolve
✔✔OPQRST - ✔✔Onset, Provokes, Quality, Radiates, Severity, Time
✔✔Kinematics - ✔✔Studies the movement of body segments
✔✔Mechanism of Injury (MOI) - ✔✔Force that produced the injury (Direct, twisting,
hyperextension, indirect)
✔✔Five major MOIs - ✔✔Blunt, Penetrating, Rotational, Crush, Blast
✔✔Pre-Injury Phase - ✔✔Events and Conditions leading up to the injury
✔✔Injury Phase - ✔✔Period during which energy is transferred through a patient's body
✔✔Index of Suspicion - ✔✔Evaluating a patient and the initial assumption of how the
injury was sustained and the severity of it
✔✔Level 1 Trauma Center - ✔✔24 hour, in-house trauma surgeons, ongoing research
and surgical residency program
✔✔Level 2 Trauma Center - ✔✔Level 1 without research or residency
✔✔Level 3 Trauma Center - ✔✔Trauma surgeon available, not every subspecialist
✔✔Level 4 and 5 Trauma Center - ✔✔Trained trauma nurses and a physician available,
basic resuscitative measures
✔✔Skin Function - ✔✔Protection, excretion, prevent fluid loss
✔✔Thermal Burn - ✔✔Heat comes in direct contact with skin
Management: Flush w/ water, do not cold compress or pop blister
✔✔Chemical Burn - ✔✔Burn from exposure to caustic substances.
Management: Call hazmat, irrigate
, ✔✔Electrical Burn - ✔✔Burn from exposure to electrical current
Management: Backboard, CPR if necessary, look for points of entry/exit
✔✔Radiation Burn - ✔✔Burn from exposure to element, object, substance that emits
radiation
Management: Call hazmat
✔✔1st degree burn - ✔✔Superficial thickness, epidermis, red skin no blister
✔✔2nd degree burn - ✔✔Partial thickness, epidermis/dermis, blisters and wet-like skin
✔✔3rd degree burn - ✔✔Full thickness, epidermis/dermis/subcutaneous, skin is charred
white and dry
✔✔4th degree burn - ✔✔Extends to bone/muscle, blackened skin
✔✔Critical burns - ✔✔2nd degree over 10% area, kids under ten, adults over 65,
inhalation, chemical/electrical burns, burns on head/feet/hands/neck/genitals/major
joints
✔✔Musculoskeletal system - ✔✔Allows body to perform organized movement and
stand/walk upright
✔✔Axial bones - ✔✔Skull, vertebrae, thoracic cage
✔✔Appendicular bones - ✔✔bones of shoulders, legs, arms, etc.
✔✔Long bones - ✔✔Produce blood cells - humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tib/fib
✔✔Flat bones - ✔✔Protect organs - skull, ribs, sternum, pelvis
✔✔Irregular - ✔✔2 or more functions - wrist
✔✔Periosteum - ✔✔Thin covering of bone
✔✔Cortex - ✔✔Hard outer layer, contains marrow
✔✔Cartilage - ✔✔Tough, elastic, fibrous tissue
✔✔Articular cartilage - ✔✔cartilage affixed to the end of a bone within a joint
✔✔Types of joints - ✔✔Ball and socket, hinge, gliding, pivot, suture
