Paramedic National Registry Exam Review Questions With Correct Answers

Paramedic National Registry Exam Review
Questions With Correct Answers


Stridor - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-harsh, high-pitched sound, swelling, FB
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in upper airway
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Snoring - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-tongue blocking airway
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Gurgling - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-indicates presence of fluid in the
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upper airway, need for suctioning
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Decorticate posturing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-characterized by upper
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extremities flexed at the elbows and held closely to the body and lower
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extremities that are externally rotated and extended. occurs when the
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brainstem is not inhibited by the motor function of the cerebral cortex.
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Decerebrate posturing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(worse) extended and
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internally rotated elbows and legs, teeth clenched, legs stiff and feet
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extended


Babinski response - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-big toe moves upward and
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other toes fan out when stroking bottom of foot, means CNS problem
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,Dilated pupils - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mydriasis
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cardiac arrest, shock, cereal hypoxia, cocaine, epinephrine,
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amphetamines


Small/constricted pupils - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Miosis | | | | |




narcotics, central nervous system disorder, glaucoma medication, bright
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light


Unequal pupils - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Anisocoria
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brain injury, brain tumor, stroke, artificial eye, some eye medications,
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eye injury or disease, ICP
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Nystagmus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-rapid involuntary movements of
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the eyes
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Causes of distended neck veins (JVD) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Tension
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penumothorax |




-Cardiac tamponade
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,-Right heart failure
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-Traumatic asphyxia | |




-Pulmonary embolus | |




-Emphysema |




-Chronic bronchitis | |




-best seen at a 45 degree angle
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Flat neck viens - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Hemothorax
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-Dehydration |




-Shock |




-best seen with patient supine
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Apenustic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-long, deep breaths that are stopped
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during inspirations then periods of apnea
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Causes of apneustic breath sounds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-CNS injury
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or stroke
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, Biot (ataxic) respirations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Irregular pattern, rate,
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and depth of respirations with intermittent periods of apnea; result
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from increased intracranial pressure.
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Cheyne-Stokes respiration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Increasing in rate
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and depth, decreasing in rate and depth with period of apnea, results
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from a neurological condition
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Hyperventilation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Rapid and shallow | | | | |




Kussmaul respirations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Deep, rapid breathing;
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usually the result of an accumulation of certain acids when insulin is not
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available in the body.
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Fruity breath |




Rales/Crackles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Fluid in small airways/alveoli
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Causes of Rales/Crackles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-CHF, pulmonary
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edema, drowning, pneumonia, COPD
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Rhonchi - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mucus or fluid in larger
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airways/bronchi
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