PARAMEDIC ENTRANCE CORRECT EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Components of initial assessment - ✔✔General impression, responsiveness, chief
complain, obvious life threats, ABC, priority
✔✔Rapid trauma assessment - ✔✔assessment of head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis,
back and extremities, DCAP-BTLS
✔✔DCAP-BTLS - ✔✔deformities, contusions, abrasions, punctures
burns, tenderness, lacerations, swelling
✔✔Respirations - ✔✔Adult: 12-20
Child: 15 - 30
Infant: 20-50
Rate, effort depth
✔✔HR Adults - ✔✔60-100bpm
✔✔HR Child (11-15yrs) - ✔✔60-105bpm
✔✔HR School age (6-10yrs) - ✔✔70-110bpm
✔✔HR Preschool (3-5yrs) - ✔✔80-120bpm
✔✔HR Infant (6-12mo) - ✔✔80-140bpm
✔✔HR 0-5mo - ✔✔90-140bpm
✔✔HR Newborn - ✔✔120-160bpm
, ✔✔Skin signs - ✔✔Color, temp, moisture
✔✔Systolic/Diastolic - ✔✔S: pressure created when L. ventricle contracts and forces
blood into arteries
D: pressure remaining in arteries
✔✔Types of shock - ✔✔Anaphylactic, cardiogenic, hemoragic, hypovelemic,
neurogenic, septic, psychogenic
✔✔Anaphylactic Shock - ✔✔Allergic reaction
✔✔Cardiogenic shock - ✔✔heart stops pumping
✔✔Hypovolemic shock - ✔✔decrease in body fluid
✔✔Hemorrhagic shock - ✔✔loss of blood
✔✔Neurogenic shock - ✔✔vessels dilate abnormal in response to spinal cord
✔✔Septic shock - ✔✔infection
✔✔Psychogenic shock - ✔✔Sudden dilation of vessels psychological causes
✔✔Signs/symptoms of shock (early) - ✔✔Tachy, increase resp rate, cap refill, weak
peripheral pulses, pale, cool, clammy, thirst, dilated pupils, nausea/vomiting
✔✔GCS - ✔✔Glasgow coma scale
Eye: 1- none, 2 - pain, 3 - verbal, 4- spontaneous
Verbal: 1- none 2- sounds 3- inappropriate words, 4- confused, 5- oriented
Motor: 1 - none, 2 - extension, 3- flexion, 4- withdraws, 5- localize, 6- obeys commands
✔✔Pharynx - ✔✔passageway from nose/mouth to trachea
✔✔Oropharynx - ✔✔Posterior to mouth
✔✔Larynx - ✔✔Contains vocal cords, connected to superior portion of trachea
✔✔Thyroid cartilage - ✔✔Prominence in neck (adam's apple)
✔✔Cricoid cartilage - ✔✔Ring shaped structure that circles trachea lower edge of larynx
✔✔Epiglottis - ✔✔leaf shaped structure that covers and prevents food from entering
larynx and trachea
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Components of initial assessment - ✔✔General impression, responsiveness, chief
complain, obvious life threats, ABC, priority
✔✔Rapid trauma assessment - ✔✔assessment of head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis,
back and extremities, DCAP-BTLS
✔✔DCAP-BTLS - ✔✔deformities, contusions, abrasions, punctures
burns, tenderness, lacerations, swelling
✔✔Respirations - ✔✔Adult: 12-20
Child: 15 - 30
Infant: 20-50
Rate, effort depth
✔✔HR Adults - ✔✔60-100bpm
✔✔HR Child (11-15yrs) - ✔✔60-105bpm
✔✔HR School age (6-10yrs) - ✔✔70-110bpm
✔✔HR Preschool (3-5yrs) - ✔✔80-120bpm
✔✔HR Infant (6-12mo) - ✔✔80-140bpm
✔✔HR 0-5mo - ✔✔90-140bpm
✔✔HR Newborn - ✔✔120-160bpm
, ✔✔Skin signs - ✔✔Color, temp, moisture
✔✔Systolic/Diastolic - ✔✔S: pressure created when L. ventricle contracts and forces
blood into arteries
D: pressure remaining in arteries
✔✔Types of shock - ✔✔Anaphylactic, cardiogenic, hemoragic, hypovelemic,
neurogenic, septic, psychogenic
✔✔Anaphylactic Shock - ✔✔Allergic reaction
✔✔Cardiogenic shock - ✔✔heart stops pumping
✔✔Hypovolemic shock - ✔✔decrease in body fluid
✔✔Hemorrhagic shock - ✔✔loss of blood
✔✔Neurogenic shock - ✔✔vessels dilate abnormal in response to spinal cord
✔✔Septic shock - ✔✔infection
✔✔Psychogenic shock - ✔✔Sudden dilation of vessels psychological causes
✔✔Signs/symptoms of shock (early) - ✔✔Tachy, increase resp rate, cap refill, weak
peripheral pulses, pale, cool, clammy, thirst, dilated pupils, nausea/vomiting
✔✔GCS - ✔✔Glasgow coma scale
Eye: 1- none, 2 - pain, 3 - verbal, 4- spontaneous
Verbal: 1- none 2- sounds 3- inappropriate words, 4- confused, 5- oriented
Motor: 1 - none, 2 - extension, 3- flexion, 4- withdraws, 5- localize, 6- obeys commands
✔✔Pharynx - ✔✔passageway from nose/mouth to trachea
✔✔Oropharynx - ✔✔Posterior to mouth
✔✔Larynx - ✔✔Contains vocal cords, connected to superior portion of trachea
✔✔Thyroid cartilage - ✔✔Prominence in neck (adam's apple)
✔✔Cricoid cartilage - ✔✔Ring shaped structure that circles trachea lower edge of larynx
✔✔Epiglottis - ✔✔leaf shaped structure that covers and prevents food from entering
larynx and trachea
