CDH PARAMEDIC ENTRANCE 2026 TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What symptoms do cardiac dysrhythmias cause? - ✔✔Palpations, fainting, death,
cardiac arrest, lightheadedness, and dizziness.
✔✔What are common causes of AMS? - ✔✔Substances, mental conditions, TBI
✔✔How does the body respond to blood loss? - ✔✔By shunting blood into the core of
the body in order to preserve internal organs.
✔✔What are battle signs? - ✔✔Bruising starting from around the occipital bone around
the lower portion of the head and upper portion of the ears and finally around the eyes.
✔✔How is a sublingual medication administered? - ✔✔Given under the patients tongue
until it is completely absorbed.
✔✔How do you treat large active bleeding wounds? - ✔✔By packing the wound with
hemostatic gauze, applying direct pressure, if all else fails apply a tourniquet.
✔✔What is the best determination of possible internal bleeding? - ✔✔Hypotension,
Distention, Mechanism
✔✔What type of abdominal pain can result in R shoulder pain? - ✔✔Referred pain.
✔✔Where are the different organs located? - ✔✔URQ: liver, gallbladder, duodenum,
right kidney (partial), pancreas (partial), colon (partial)
LRQ: Appendix, Right Kidney (Partial), colon (partial), small intestines (partial), ureter
(partial)
LLQ: Left kidney (partial), Colon (partial), small intestines (partial) ureter (partial)
ULQ: Stomach, spleen, pancreas (partial), colon (partial), left kidney (partial)
✔✔What are the signs and symptoms of pertussis? - ✔✔Fainting & Vomiting after
coughing, inspiratory "whoop". This is also called whooping cough.
✔✔What are the signs and symptoms of meningitis? - ✔✔Nuchal rigidity, sudden high
fever, AMS, acute fever
✔✔What are the signs and symptoms of tuberculosis? - ✔✔Fever, chills, night sweats,
Nail clubbing, loss of appetite, weight loss, dry cough.
✔✔What are the different parts of the brain responsible for? - ✔✔Cerebrum: Thought
and action.
Cerebellum: Regulation and coordination of movement, balance, and posture.
, Limbic System: Emotion, long term memory.
Brain Stem: Vital bodily functions (RR,BP, HR, etc.)
✔✔What is the alarm reaction and what happens physically? - ✔✔The body releases
adrenaline and a variety of other psychological mechanisms to combat the stress and to
stay in control. This is called fight or flight response. The muscles tense, the heart beats
faster, the breathing and perspiration increases, the eyes dilate, the stomach may
clench.
✔✔What is crepitus? - ✔✔Grating, crackling, or popping caused by air being in
subcutaneous tissue.
✔✔What is a vector borne transmission? - ✔✔Transmission caused by another 3rd
party organism.
✔✔What are the building blocks of life? - ✔✔DNA and RDNA
✔✔What is GCS? - ✔✔Glascow Coma Scale.
✔✔What does the GCS measure? - ✔✔The patients level of consciousness.
✔✔What is a prolapsed cord? - ✔✔When an umbilical cord exits the vagina before the
fetus does. Blood and oxygen supplies are severely lowered or cut off altogether.
✔✔What is a hypertonic solution? - ✔✔Water moves into the cells in the solution
✔✔What is a hypotonic solution? - ✔✔Water moves out of the cells of the solution
✔✔What is an isotonic solution? - ✔✔Water either moves nowhere or moves in the cells
as fast as it moves out of them
✔✔What is ATP and what does it do? - ✔✔AdenosineTriPhospate it transports chemical
energy within cells. Simply, it is the energy our bodies use.
✔✔What different types of consent are there? - ✔✔Implied, informed, expressed
✔✔What is the Ryan White Act? - ✔✔Ensures AIDS patients receive care and also
MANDATES EMS personnel to find out if they have been exposed to life threatening
diseases while providing care.
✔✔What did the white paper create? - ✔✔A national standard of care.
✔✔What is visceral pain? - ✔✔Actual organ pain
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What symptoms do cardiac dysrhythmias cause? - ✔✔Palpations, fainting, death,
cardiac arrest, lightheadedness, and dizziness.
✔✔What are common causes of AMS? - ✔✔Substances, mental conditions, TBI
✔✔How does the body respond to blood loss? - ✔✔By shunting blood into the core of
the body in order to preserve internal organs.
✔✔What are battle signs? - ✔✔Bruising starting from around the occipital bone around
the lower portion of the head and upper portion of the ears and finally around the eyes.
✔✔How is a sublingual medication administered? - ✔✔Given under the patients tongue
until it is completely absorbed.
✔✔How do you treat large active bleeding wounds? - ✔✔By packing the wound with
hemostatic gauze, applying direct pressure, if all else fails apply a tourniquet.
✔✔What is the best determination of possible internal bleeding? - ✔✔Hypotension,
Distention, Mechanism
✔✔What type of abdominal pain can result in R shoulder pain? - ✔✔Referred pain.
✔✔Where are the different organs located? - ✔✔URQ: liver, gallbladder, duodenum,
right kidney (partial), pancreas (partial), colon (partial)
LRQ: Appendix, Right Kidney (Partial), colon (partial), small intestines (partial), ureter
(partial)
LLQ: Left kidney (partial), Colon (partial), small intestines (partial) ureter (partial)
ULQ: Stomach, spleen, pancreas (partial), colon (partial), left kidney (partial)
✔✔What are the signs and symptoms of pertussis? - ✔✔Fainting & Vomiting after
coughing, inspiratory "whoop". This is also called whooping cough.
✔✔What are the signs and symptoms of meningitis? - ✔✔Nuchal rigidity, sudden high
fever, AMS, acute fever
✔✔What are the signs and symptoms of tuberculosis? - ✔✔Fever, chills, night sweats,
Nail clubbing, loss of appetite, weight loss, dry cough.
✔✔What are the different parts of the brain responsible for? - ✔✔Cerebrum: Thought
and action.
Cerebellum: Regulation and coordination of movement, balance, and posture.
, Limbic System: Emotion, long term memory.
Brain Stem: Vital bodily functions (RR,BP, HR, etc.)
✔✔What is the alarm reaction and what happens physically? - ✔✔The body releases
adrenaline and a variety of other psychological mechanisms to combat the stress and to
stay in control. This is called fight or flight response. The muscles tense, the heart beats
faster, the breathing and perspiration increases, the eyes dilate, the stomach may
clench.
✔✔What is crepitus? - ✔✔Grating, crackling, or popping caused by air being in
subcutaneous tissue.
✔✔What is a vector borne transmission? - ✔✔Transmission caused by another 3rd
party organism.
✔✔What are the building blocks of life? - ✔✔DNA and RDNA
✔✔What is GCS? - ✔✔Glascow Coma Scale.
✔✔What does the GCS measure? - ✔✔The patients level of consciousness.
✔✔What is a prolapsed cord? - ✔✔When an umbilical cord exits the vagina before the
fetus does. Blood and oxygen supplies are severely lowered or cut off altogether.
✔✔What is a hypertonic solution? - ✔✔Water moves into the cells in the solution
✔✔What is a hypotonic solution? - ✔✔Water moves out of the cells of the solution
✔✔What is an isotonic solution? - ✔✔Water either moves nowhere or moves in the cells
as fast as it moves out of them
✔✔What is ATP and what does it do? - ✔✔AdenosineTriPhospate it transports chemical
energy within cells. Simply, it is the energy our bodies use.
✔✔What different types of consent are there? - ✔✔Implied, informed, expressed
✔✔What is the Ryan White Act? - ✔✔Ensures AIDS patients receive care and also
MANDATES EMS personnel to find out if they have been exposed to life threatening
diseases while providing care.
✔✔What did the white paper create? - ✔✔A national standard of care.
✔✔What is visceral pain? - ✔✔Actual organ pain
