CDH PARAMEDIC ENTRANCE STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What is visceral pain? - ✔✔Actual organ pain
✔✔What is Parietal pain? - ✔✔Peritoneum pain
✔✔What is referred pain? - ✔✔Happening in one place but felt elsewhere.
✔✔What are expected Paramedic attributes? - ✔✔Dynamic and empathetic
✔✔What is slander and libel? - ✔✔Slander: False spoken statement damaging ones
reputation
Libel: False printed statements damaging ones reputation
✔✔What is assault and battery? - ✔✔Assault: Creating imminent harmful or offensive
contact with someone
Battery: Attempting to create harmful or offensive contact with someone
✔✔What is the standard of care? - ✔✔"Best practice" or a formal diagnostic or
treatment process.
✔✔What is duty to act? - ✔✔A legal duty requiring a party to take necessary action to
prevent harm to another person or to the general public.
✔✔What is the circadian rhythm? - ✔✔A biological process that oscillates upon a period
of about 24 hours.
✔✔ What are the normal respirations of adults? Infants? - ✔✔12-20 and 20-40
✔✔What is the purpose of surfactant? - ✔✔Reduces surface tension in alveoli
(lubricant)
✔✔What is the normal stimulus to breathe in a healthy patient? - ✔✔Carbonic drive
✔✔What is a pink puffer? Blue Bloater? - ✔✔A COPD Patient with Emphysema. A
COPD Patient with Chronic Bronchitis
✔✔What causes inhalation? - ✔✔Diaphragm and Intercostal muscles contract
✔✔Where are the different lung sounds located? (Upper, Lower Airway) What causes
them? (Fluid, Constriction, Rubbing) - ✔✔...
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What is visceral pain? - ✔✔Actual organ pain
✔✔What is Parietal pain? - ✔✔Peritoneum pain
✔✔What is referred pain? - ✔✔Happening in one place but felt elsewhere.
✔✔What are expected Paramedic attributes? - ✔✔Dynamic and empathetic
✔✔What is slander and libel? - ✔✔Slander: False spoken statement damaging ones
reputation
Libel: False printed statements damaging ones reputation
✔✔What is assault and battery? - ✔✔Assault: Creating imminent harmful or offensive
contact with someone
Battery: Attempting to create harmful or offensive contact with someone
✔✔What is the standard of care? - ✔✔"Best practice" or a formal diagnostic or
treatment process.
✔✔What is duty to act? - ✔✔A legal duty requiring a party to take necessary action to
prevent harm to another person or to the general public.
✔✔What is the circadian rhythm? - ✔✔A biological process that oscillates upon a period
of about 24 hours.
✔✔ What are the normal respirations of adults? Infants? - ✔✔12-20 and 20-40
✔✔What is the purpose of surfactant? - ✔✔Reduces surface tension in alveoli
(lubricant)
✔✔What is the normal stimulus to breathe in a healthy patient? - ✔✔Carbonic drive
✔✔What is a pink puffer? Blue Bloater? - ✔✔A COPD Patient with Emphysema. A
COPD Patient with Chronic Bronchitis
✔✔What causes inhalation? - ✔✔Diaphragm and Intercostal muscles contract
✔✔Where are the different lung sounds located? (Upper, Lower Airway) What causes
them? (Fluid, Constriction, Rubbing) - ✔✔...
