Paramedic Final Exam Test Bank
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• How to protect yourself from a violent patient, what's the first thing we have to give
ourselves? -✓✓Space
• The four lobes of the brain -✓✓Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobes, Occipital
Lobe
• Frontal Lobe of the brain -✓✓Involved in reasoning, motor control, emotion, and
language.
• Parietal Lobe of the brain -✓✓Its functions in processing sensory information
regarding the location of parts of the body as well as interpreting visual information and
processing language and mathematics.
• Temporal Lobes of the brain -✓✓Process sensory input. Its functions involved primary
auditory perception, such as hearing, and holds the primary auditory cortex.
• Occipital Lobe of the brain -✓✓Processes visual processing center
• What the management of lye ingestion is? -✓✓Transport, nothing we can do for them
• Three methods of evaluating the heart rate off an EKG strip -✓✓10 second rule
R to R
Count all of the little boxes and divide by 1,500 (this one is the most accurate)
SA Node: 60-100 beats per minute
AV Node: 40-60 beats per minute
Purkinje Fibers: 15-40 beats per minute
• Causes of pulmonary of emboli? -✓✓Perfusion Ventilation Ratio is what is affected
when PE happens.
Perfusion ventilation ratio is mismatch
A blood clot in one of the pulmonary arteries
Also can cause right side heart failure.
• Respiratory acidosis or alkalosis -✓✓Caused by a lung disorder or issue with
exhalation
,• Metabolic of consequences of both vomiting and diarrhea -✓✓Causes hypokalemia (
metabolic acidosis) and renal loss of potassium secondary to salt-wasting nephropathy.
Metabolic acidosis is a buildup of acid in the body that originates in the kidneys. It
occurs when your body can't get rid of excess acid or loses too much base. Water and
electrolytes are lost when there is vomiting. These losses cause dehydration (due to the
loss of water and sodium chloride), metabolic acidosis (due to the loss of bicarbonate),
and potassium depletion. Metabolic alkalosis leads to an increased blood pH- resulting
if untreated in coma or death. When metabolic acidosis occurs your kidneys and lungs
can't keep your body's pH in balance. Acidosis (blood that's too acidic), pH of less than
7.35- Alkalosis( blood that's too basic) pH of higher than 7.45. Respiratory acidosis or
alkalosis- caused by a lung disorder or issue with exhalation Metabolic acidosis or
alkalosis- problem with the functioning of the kidneys
• Generic and trade names of TCA meds Tricyclic antidepressants (TCA)? -
✓✓amitriptyline (Elavil), amoxapine, clomipramine (Anafranil), desipramine (Norpramin),
doxepin (Sinequan), imipramine (Tofranil), nortriptyline (Pamelor), protriptyline (Vivactil)
• Metabolic acidosis or alkalosis -✓✓Problem with the functioning of the kidneys
• What is the Jejunum -✓✓The small intestine or small bowel is the part of the
gastrointestinal tract between the stomach and the large intestine, and is where most of
the end absorption of food takes place.
• If you are to ingest a poison or toxin, where would it be absorbed? -✓✓Second part of
the small intestine - jejunum
• What are the three distinct regions of the small intestine? -✓✓Duodenum, Jejunum,
and Ileum.
• Types of consent? -✓✓Informed, Expressed, Implied, Involuntary, Minor,
Emancipated Minor, Withdraw
• What is gestational diabetes? -✓✓● Increase insulin production and decrease glucose
tolerance
● Hypoglycemia emergency
▪ Alter mental status
▪ Diaphoresis tachycardia
▪ Critically low BGL, pt. may sustain hypoglycemic seizure or comatose
● Hyperglycemia emergency
▪ larger fetus development (difficult to deliver)
• Informed consent -✓✓Consent given based on full disclosure of information. A patient
must understand the nature, risk, and benefits of any procedures to be performed.
, • Expressed consent -✓✓Occurs when a person directly grants permission to treat, it
could be verbally, nonverbally, or in writing.
• Involuntary consent -✓✓A court will order patients to undergo treatment, even though
they may not want it.
• Implied consent -✓✓"Emergency doctrine" It is assumed that the patient would want
lifesaving treatment if they were able to give informed consent.
• Minor consent -✓✓Consent should be obtained from a parent, legal guardian, or
court-appointed custodian.
• Emancipated Minor -✓✓Is considered an adult, if this person under 18 year of age
who is married, pregnant, a parent, a member of the arm forces, or financially
independent and living away from home.
• Withdrawal of consent -✓✓Refusal, a competent adult my withdraw consent for any
treatment at any time, refusal must be informed. The patient must understand the risks
of not continuing treatment of transport to the hospital in terms they can fully
understand.
• How does the hypoxic drive work? -✓✓Hypoxia is a state of insufficient oxygen. An
increase in carbon dioxide will cause chemoreceptor reflexes to trigger an increase in
ventilation stimulating a person to breathe on the basis of low oxygen levels.
• Ascending and descending nerve tracks - afferent and efferent -✓✓The dorsal roots
contain afferent fibers, and the ventral roots contain efferent fibers.
• Afferent (sensory) -✓✓Sensory - Fibers transmit impulses to the central nervous
system form the body. Input
• Efferent (motor) -✓✓Motor - Fibers carry impulses from the central nervous system to
the body. Output
• Cause and signs and symptoms of urticarial, hives? -✓✓Batches of red or skin-
colored welts (wheals), which can appear anywhere on the body
Welts that vary in size, change shapes, and appear and fade repeatedly as the reaction
runs its course
Itching,(which may be severe)
Raised itchy bumps, either red or skin-colored
Blanching"( when pressed, the center of a red hive turns white)
Questions and Answers (2026) |
Complete Exam Review Pack |
Verified Q&A | A+
• How to protect yourself from a violent patient, what's the first thing we have to give
ourselves? -✓✓Space
• The four lobes of the brain -✓✓Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobes, Occipital
Lobe
• Frontal Lobe of the brain -✓✓Involved in reasoning, motor control, emotion, and
language.
• Parietal Lobe of the brain -✓✓Its functions in processing sensory information
regarding the location of parts of the body as well as interpreting visual information and
processing language and mathematics.
• Temporal Lobes of the brain -✓✓Process sensory input. Its functions involved primary
auditory perception, such as hearing, and holds the primary auditory cortex.
• Occipital Lobe of the brain -✓✓Processes visual processing center
• What the management of lye ingestion is? -✓✓Transport, nothing we can do for them
• Three methods of evaluating the heart rate off an EKG strip -✓✓10 second rule
R to R
Count all of the little boxes and divide by 1,500 (this one is the most accurate)
SA Node: 60-100 beats per minute
AV Node: 40-60 beats per minute
Purkinje Fibers: 15-40 beats per minute
• Causes of pulmonary of emboli? -✓✓Perfusion Ventilation Ratio is what is affected
when PE happens.
Perfusion ventilation ratio is mismatch
A blood clot in one of the pulmonary arteries
Also can cause right side heart failure.
• Respiratory acidosis or alkalosis -✓✓Caused by a lung disorder or issue with
exhalation
,• Metabolic of consequences of both vomiting and diarrhea -✓✓Causes hypokalemia (
metabolic acidosis) and renal loss of potassium secondary to salt-wasting nephropathy.
Metabolic acidosis is a buildup of acid in the body that originates in the kidneys. It
occurs when your body can't get rid of excess acid or loses too much base. Water and
electrolytes are lost when there is vomiting. These losses cause dehydration (due to the
loss of water and sodium chloride), metabolic acidosis (due to the loss of bicarbonate),
and potassium depletion. Metabolic alkalosis leads to an increased blood pH- resulting
if untreated in coma or death. When metabolic acidosis occurs your kidneys and lungs
can't keep your body's pH in balance. Acidosis (blood that's too acidic), pH of less than
7.35- Alkalosis( blood that's too basic) pH of higher than 7.45. Respiratory acidosis or
alkalosis- caused by a lung disorder or issue with exhalation Metabolic acidosis or
alkalosis- problem with the functioning of the kidneys
• Generic and trade names of TCA meds Tricyclic antidepressants (TCA)? -
✓✓amitriptyline (Elavil), amoxapine, clomipramine (Anafranil), desipramine (Norpramin),
doxepin (Sinequan), imipramine (Tofranil), nortriptyline (Pamelor), protriptyline (Vivactil)
• Metabolic acidosis or alkalosis -✓✓Problem with the functioning of the kidneys
• What is the Jejunum -✓✓The small intestine or small bowel is the part of the
gastrointestinal tract between the stomach and the large intestine, and is where most of
the end absorption of food takes place.
• If you are to ingest a poison or toxin, where would it be absorbed? -✓✓Second part of
the small intestine - jejunum
• What are the three distinct regions of the small intestine? -✓✓Duodenum, Jejunum,
and Ileum.
• Types of consent? -✓✓Informed, Expressed, Implied, Involuntary, Minor,
Emancipated Minor, Withdraw
• What is gestational diabetes? -✓✓● Increase insulin production and decrease glucose
tolerance
● Hypoglycemia emergency
▪ Alter mental status
▪ Diaphoresis tachycardia
▪ Critically low BGL, pt. may sustain hypoglycemic seizure or comatose
● Hyperglycemia emergency
▪ larger fetus development (difficult to deliver)
• Informed consent -✓✓Consent given based on full disclosure of information. A patient
must understand the nature, risk, and benefits of any procedures to be performed.
, • Expressed consent -✓✓Occurs when a person directly grants permission to treat, it
could be verbally, nonverbally, or in writing.
• Involuntary consent -✓✓A court will order patients to undergo treatment, even though
they may not want it.
• Implied consent -✓✓"Emergency doctrine" It is assumed that the patient would want
lifesaving treatment if they were able to give informed consent.
• Minor consent -✓✓Consent should be obtained from a parent, legal guardian, or
court-appointed custodian.
• Emancipated Minor -✓✓Is considered an adult, if this person under 18 year of age
who is married, pregnant, a parent, a member of the arm forces, or financially
independent and living away from home.
• Withdrawal of consent -✓✓Refusal, a competent adult my withdraw consent for any
treatment at any time, refusal must be informed. The patient must understand the risks
of not continuing treatment of transport to the hospital in terms they can fully
understand.
• How does the hypoxic drive work? -✓✓Hypoxia is a state of insufficient oxygen. An
increase in carbon dioxide will cause chemoreceptor reflexes to trigger an increase in
ventilation stimulating a person to breathe on the basis of low oxygen levels.
• Ascending and descending nerve tracks - afferent and efferent -✓✓The dorsal roots
contain afferent fibers, and the ventral roots contain efferent fibers.
• Afferent (sensory) -✓✓Sensory - Fibers transmit impulses to the central nervous
system form the body. Input
• Efferent (motor) -✓✓Motor - Fibers carry impulses from the central nervous system to
the body. Output
• Cause and signs and symptoms of urticarial, hives? -✓✓Batches of red or skin-
colored welts (wheals), which can appear anywhere on the body
Welts that vary in size, change shapes, and appear and fade repeatedly as the reaction
runs its course
Itching,(which may be severe)
Raised itchy bumps, either red or skin-colored
Blanching"( when pressed, the center of a red hive turns white)
