NREMT AEMT
Exam Prep
(700+ Practice Questions)
Verified Correct Answers
This Document Description:
This document contains a collection of
745 questions and Correct answers
Ideal for exam preparation and concept
reinforcement.
,1. What is the endometrium?
Correct Answer:
The inner lining of the uterus
2. At what percent is too much external bleeding too much for the body?
Correct Answer:
20 percent
3. What is mnemonic for OCKV?
Correct Answer:
Open. Clear. Keep. Ventilate
4. What is the goal number to have ETCO2?
Correct Answer:
Above 10mmHg
5. What are the steps for CPR?
Correct Answer:
911. CPR. AED. ALS
6. What are the 3 symptoms of cushings triad?
Correct Answer:
hypertension
bradycardia
irregular respirations
7. How many vertebrae are there?
Correct Answer:
33
8. Why does tension pneumothorax cause for the heart to fail?
Correct Answer:
The pressure it sets against the heart
9. Where is the spleen located in the quadrants?
Correct Answer:
,Left upper
10. What is the most common burn?
Correct Answer:
Thermal
11. What opens the voice box?
Correct Answer:
Larynx
12. What allows air into the trachea?
Correct Answer:
The glottis
13. Where is the carina located?
Correct Answer:
Before the lungs. Its the crossroads
14. How are peds larynx shaped?
Correct Answer:
Like a funnel
15. Where is C3 and C4 located on a ped?
Correct Answer:
On the neck. Behind the throat.
16. What is emphysema?
Correct Answer:
Its when the alveoli is destroyed due to it being attempted to heal.
17. What is a T piece?
Correct Answer:
To test if you are able to breathe on your own if you are intubated.
18. What's a PEEP valve?
Correct Answer:
,Its a valve the keeps oxygen in the lungs while using a BVM to make it easier and more
efficient.
19. What's a pop off valve?
Correct Answer:
A valve on the BVM that pops when too much air might go into the patient's lungs.
20. What's an oxygen blender?
Correct Answer:
A machine that you use to control the amount of concentrated oxygen given to a patient.
21. What is acute coronary syndrome?
Correct Answer:
It's just when a coronary artery is blocked by a clot.
22. What is a coronary artery?
Correct Answer:
It's an artery that provides oxygenated blood to the heart so that it stays alive and well
to pump.
23. What's MINOCA?
Correct Answer:
A heart attack that isn't directly affected by a blood clot in the coronary artery.
24. What is advanced life support?
Correct Answer:
It's just a more advanced version of BLS. You are able to do more things.
25. Why is post cardiac arrest care so important?
Correct Answer:
The body can still spiral down after your heart stops. This step helps the body NOT go
down that route.
26. What's afterload?
Correct Answer:
It's the resistance the heart goes against because of really tight arteries/veins.
,27. What's preload?
Correct Answer:
The energy the heart uses to push the blood out to the arteries/veins
28. Why is position of comfort important for an MI?
Correct Answer:
It helps the heart not overwork itself meaning the patient isnt struggling. It helps preload.
29. Why would you NOT use an AED for a suspected overdose?
Correct Answer:
Because you want to get on the chest first. You don't to lose time waiting around for an
AED.
30. What is angina?
Correct Answer:
It's like an MI but not severe. Only temp. Almost like a warning light to an MI
31. What is JVD?
Correct Answer:
It's deoxygenated blood pooled up in the jugular vein due to heart failure.
32. What's ascites?
Correct Answer:
Build up in the belly. More research needs to be completed to see what it is.
33. Why would an IV be appropriate for CHF?
Correct Answer:
To administer medications like diuretics.
34. Why would IVs be administered for COPD?
Correct Answer:
For antibiotics in case there is a flare up causing it.
35. How is PEEP related to COPD?
Correct Answer:
,The copd machine itself is a PEEP. Keeps air in the lungs while people sleep to make it
easier for them.
36. What is the main purpose of alveoli?
Correct Answer:
The alveoli has 2 jobs. Its to give the blood oxygen and to hold the excess co2 so that
way the body can breathe it out.
37. Where is the subcutaneous layer located in the body?
Correct Answer:
It's the very first layer in the body.
38. What is thyroid storm?
Correct Answer:
Its when your thyroid throws a huge amount of hormones into you due to a flare up
caused by external/internal factors.
39. What is cardiac tamponade?
Correct Answer:
It's fluid being built up in the shield of the heart. The pericardium.
40. What is systolic heart failure?
Correct Answer:
Basically when the left ventricle fails and its hard to pump blood to the rest of the body.
41. What is diastolic heart failure?
Correct Answer:
Its when the left ventricle gets too stiff to fill blood.
42. What is myocarditis?
Correct Answer:
Its when the heart muscle catches a virus and the body sends blood cell/white cells to
kill the virus/infection
43. Why is it not recommended to blow your nose during a nosebleed?
Correct Answer:
,Because you are basically opening up the broken skin again to which caused the bleed
in the first place
44. Whats the primary rule when dealing with soft tissue injuries with external
bleeding?
Correct Answer:
Just put direct pressure, thats it.
45. What causes pale clammy skin?
Correct Answer:
It means all your blood is going to your organs instead of your skin. Survival mode
basically.
46. What is hemostasis?
Correct Answer:
The process of the body beginning to clot a blood losing injury.
47. What's warfarin?
Correct Answer:
A blood thinner medication
48. Why is oxygen delivery critical during blood loss?
Correct Answer:
Because the body is losing oxygen when losing blood so oxygen is needed to add what
you are losing.
49. What is thermolysis?
Correct Answer:
An activation in your body where it tells you automatically that you need to go
somewhere cooler.
50. What is thermogenesis?
Correct Answer:
Its when your body needs heat so it activates something in your body to produce it.
51. What is a closed pneumothorax?
Correct Answer:
,Its air in the pleural space because of a tear in the lung but its still able to get out
because of the tear.
52. What is glenohumeral?
Correct Answer:
Its basically the shoulder joint
53. What is a scapular?
Correct Answer:
The bone on your back.
54. What is lethargy?
Correct Answer:
Its just when someone is not acting like their selves. Not their baseline.
55. What is the depth on chest compressions on an infant?
Correct Answer:
About 1/3
56. Is it okay to place adult pads on an infant?
Correct Answer:
Yes, its okay. Not doing anything outweighs the risk.
57. If someone is choking, what should you instruct them to do?
Correct Answer:
Encourage them to keep on cough as whatever is causing the obstruction will be
released.
58. Why is a blind sweep not recommended during a choking adult?
Correct Answer:
It can cause for the object to go deeper and cause more obstruction.
59. After a choking patient clears their airway and resumes breathing, what
should you advise them to do next?
Correct Answer:
Advice to go to the ER for possible checkups. Make sure there is no damage.
,60. What's a universal sign of someone choking?
Correct Answer:
Someone holding their throat with both hands or one hand.
61. What is orthopnea?
Correct Answer:
Difficulty breathing when you are laying down. Usually found in COPD.
62. Why isnt a fever caused by heart failure?
Correct Answer:
Because heart failure is not an infection. Fevers are caused by infections.
63. Whats a capnogram?
Correct Answer:
Its what measures how much CO2 is being exhaled
64. Why is AED first in infants instead of CPR?
Correct Answer:
It depends if you witnessed it or not. If you did, its AED first.
65. What is stroke volume?
Correct Answer:
The amount of blood that was sent to the body per heartbeat
66. What is Starlings Law?
Correct Answer: How does it relate to shock?
Correct Answer:
The more blood the heart gets, the stronger the contraction.
67. Why is decompensated shock dangerous even with treatment?
Correct Answer:
Because once in decompensated shocks, a good amount of cells have already died.
68. How is acid build up bad for the blood?
Correct Answer:
, Due to the acid in the blood, low oxygen is distributed to the organs causing failure in
the long run.
69. What is diaphoresis?
Correct Answer:
Excessive sweating due to an underlying problem in the body.
70. What are IV crystalloids?
Correct Answer:
Basic bolus or lactated ringers if indicated.
71. How does the circulatory system remove waste?
Correct Answer:
Starts in the veins. Then goes to the heart and then from there to either liver, kidney or
breathing it out.
72. What does the AV node do?
Correct Answer:
It causes a delay so that the ventricle can be filled with blood so it can pump it out.
73. What is bundle of his?
Correct Answer:
Its what sends the signal to the ventricles so it can contract.
74. What's a septa?
Correct Answer:
Its the border in the heart that stops the blood from mixing.
75. What is hemoglobin?
Correct Answer:
It carries the oxygen in the red blood cell.
76. What nerve controls the diaphragm's movement?
Correct Answer:
The phrenic nerve. Its what sends the signal to the muscle for it to move.
Exam Prep
(700+ Practice Questions)
Verified Correct Answers
This Document Description:
This document contains a collection of
745 questions and Correct answers
Ideal for exam preparation and concept
reinforcement.
,1. What is the endometrium?
Correct Answer:
The inner lining of the uterus
2. At what percent is too much external bleeding too much for the body?
Correct Answer:
20 percent
3. What is mnemonic for OCKV?
Correct Answer:
Open. Clear. Keep. Ventilate
4. What is the goal number to have ETCO2?
Correct Answer:
Above 10mmHg
5. What are the steps for CPR?
Correct Answer:
911. CPR. AED. ALS
6. What are the 3 symptoms of cushings triad?
Correct Answer:
hypertension
bradycardia
irregular respirations
7. How many vertebrae are there?
Correct Answer:
33
8. Why does tension pneumothorax cause for the heart to fail?
Correct Answer:
The pressure it sets against the heart
9. Where is the spleen located in the quadrants?
Correct Answer:
,Left upper
10. What is the most common burn?
Correct Answer:
Thermal
11. What opens the voice box?
Correct Answer:
Larynx
12. What allows air into the trachea?
Correct Answer:
The glottis
13. Where is the carina located?
Correct Answer:
Before the lungs. Its the crossroads
14. How are peds larynx shaped?
Correct Answer:
Like a funnel
15. Where is C3 and C4 located on a ped?
Correct Answer:
On the neck. Behind the throat.
16. What is emphysema?
Correct Answer:
Its when the alveoli is destroyed due to it being attempted to heal.
17. What is a T piece?
Correct Answer:
To test if you are able to breathe on your own if you are intubated.
18. What's a PEEP valve?
Correct Answer:
,Its a valve the keeps oxygen in the lungs while using a BVM to make it easier and more
efficient.
19. What's a pop off valve?
Correct Answer:
A valve on the BVM that pops when too much air might go into the patient's lungs.
20. What's an oxygen blender?
Correct Answer:
A machine that you use to control the amount of concentrated oxygen given to a patient.
21. What is acute coronary syndrome?
Correct Answer:
It's just when a coronary artery is blocked by a clot.
22. What is a coronary artery?
Correct Answer:
It's an artery that provides oxygenated blood to the heart so that it stays alive and well
to pump.
23. What's MINOCA?
Correct Answer:
A heart attack that isn't directly affected by a blood clot in the coronary artery.
24. What is advanced life support?
Correct Answer:
It's just a more advanced version of BLS. You are able to do more things.
25. Why is post cardiac arrest care so important?
Correct Answer:
The body can still spiral down after your heart stops. This step helps the body NOT go
down that route.
26. What's afterload?
Correct Answer:
It's the resistance the heart goes against because of really tight arteries/veins.
,27. What's preload?
Correct Answer:
The energy the heart uses to push the blood out to the arteries/veins
28. Why is position of comfort important for an MI?
Correct Answer:
It helps the heart not overwork itself meaning the patient isnt struggling. It helps preload.
29. Why would you NOT use an AED for a suspected overdose?
Correct Answer:
Because you want to get on the chest first. You don't to lose time waiting around for an
AED.
30. What is angina?
Correct Answer:
It's like an MI but not severe. Only temp. Almost like a warning light to an MI
31. What is JVD?
Correct Answer:
It's deoxygenated blood pooled up in the jugular vein due to heart failure.
32. What's ascites?
Correct Answer:
Build up in the belly. More research needs to be completed to see what it is.
33. Why would an IV be appropriate for CHF?
Correct Answer:
To administer medications like diuretics.
34. Why would IVs be administered for COPD?
Correct Answer:
For antibiotics in case there is a flare up causing it.
35. How is PEEP related to COPD?
Correct Answer:
,The copd machine itself is a PEEP. Keeps air in the lungs while people sleep to make it
easier for them.
36. What is the main purpose of alveoli?
Correct Answer:
The alveoli has 2 jobs. Its to give the blood oxygen and to hold the excess co2 so that
way the body can breathe it out.
37. Where is the subcutaneous layer located in the body?
Correct Answer:
It's the very first layer in the body.
38. What is thyroid storm?
Correct Answer:
Its when your thyroid throws a huge amount of hormones into you due to a flare up
caused by external/internal factors.
39. What is cardiac tamponade?
Correct Answer:
It's fluid being built up in the shield of the heart. The pericardium.
40. What is systolic heart failure?
Correct Answer:
Basically when the left ventricle fails and its hard to pump blood to the rest of the body.
41. What is diastolic heart failure?
Correct Answer:
Its when the left ventricle gets too stiff to fill blood.
42. What is myocarditis?
Correct Answer:
Its when the heart muscle catches a virus and the body sends blood cell/white cells to
kill the virus/infection
43. Why is it not recommended to blow your nose during a nosebleed?
Correct Answer:
,Because you are basically opening up the broken skin again to which caused the bleed
in the first place
44. Whats the primary rule when dealing with soft tissue injuries with external
bleeding?
Correct Answer:
Just put direct pressure, thats it.
45. What causes pale clammy skin?
Correct Answer:
It means all your blood is going to your organs instead of your skin. Survival mode
basically.
46. What is hemostasis?
Correct Answer:
The process of the body beginning to clot a blood losing injury.
47. What's warfarin?
Correct Answer:
A blood thinner medication
48. Why is oxygen delivery critical during blood loss?
Correct Answer:
Because the body is losing oxygen when losing blood so oxygen is needed to add what
you are losing.
49. What is thermolysis?
Correct Answer:
An activation in your body where it tells you automatically that you need to go
somewhere cooler.
50. What is thermogenesis?
Correct Answer:
Its when your body needs heat so it activates something in your body to produce it.
51. What is a closed pneumothorax?
Correct Answer:
,Its air in the pleural space because of a tear in the lung but its still able to get out
because of the tear.
52. What is glenohumeral?
Correct Answer:
Its basically the shoulder joint
53. What is a scapular?
Correct Answer:
The bone on your back.
54. What is lethargy?
Correct Answer:
Its just when someone is not acting like their selves. Not their baseline.
55. What is the depth on chest compressions on an infant?
Correct Answer:
About 1/3
56. Is it okay to place adult pads on an infant?
Correct Answer:
Yes, its okay. Not doing anything outweighs the risk.
57. If someone is choking, what should you instruct them to do?
Correct Answer:
Encourage them to keep on cough as whatever is causing the obstruction will be
released.
58. Why is a blind sweep not recommended during a choking adult?
Correct Answer:
It can cause for the object to go deeper and cause more obstruction.
59. After a choking patient clears their airway and resumes breathing, what
should you advise them to do next?
Correct Answer:
Advice to go to the ER for possible checkups. Make sure there is no damage.
,60. What's a universal sign of someone choking?
Correct Answer:
Someone holding their throat with both hands or one hand.
61. What is orthopnea?
Correct Answer:
Difficulty breathing when you are laying down. Usually found in COPD.
62. Why isnt a fever caused by heart failure?
Correct Answer:
Because heart failure is not an infection. Fevers are caused by infections.
63. Whats a capnogram?
Correct Answer:
Its what measures how much CO2 is being exhaled
64. Why is AED first in infants instead of CPR?
Correct Answer:
It depends if you witnessed it or not. If you did, its AED first.
65. What is stroke volume?
Correct Answer:
The amount of blood that was sent to the body per heartbeat
66. What is Starlings Law?
Correct Answer: How does it relate to shock?
Correct Answer:
The more blood the heart gets, the stronger the contraction.
67. Why is decompensated shock dangerous even with treatment?
Correct Answer:
Because once in decompensated shocks, a good amount of cells have already died.
68. How is acid build up bad for the blood?
Correct Answer:
, Due to the acid in the blood, low oxygen is distributed to the organs causing failure in
the long run.
69. What is diaphoresis?
Correct Answer:
Excessive sweating due to an underlying problem in the body.
70. What are IV crystalloids?
Correct Answer:
Basic bolus or lactated ringers if indicated.
71. How does the circulatory system remove waste?
Correct Answer:
Starts in the veins. Then goes to the heart and then from there to either liver, kidney or
breathing it out.
72. What does the AV node do?
Correct Answer:
It causes a delay so that the ventricle can be filled with blood so it can pump it out.
73. What is bundle of his?
Correct Answer:
Its what sends the signal to the ventricles so it can contract.
74. What's a septa?
Correct Answer:
Its the border in the heart that stops the blood from mixing.
75. What is hemoglobin?
Correct Answer:
It carries the oxygen in the red blood cell.
76. What nerve controls the diaphragm's movement?
Correct Answer:
The phrenic nerve. Its what sends the signal to the muscle for it to move.
