EMT Exam 2 Questions and Answers
1.When the EMT checks the pupils he or she is checking for
what three things?
A. color, equality, and reactivity
B. size, equality, and reactivity
C. movement, gaze, and equality
D. reactivity, gaze, and equality
Answer b
2.Which of the following represents the correct order of
assessment for the EMT during the primary assessment from
start to end?
A. Patient priority, general impression, mental status, airway,
breathing, circulation
B. General impression, mental status, airway, breathing,
circulation, patient priority
C. mental status, general impression, airway, breathing
circulation, patient priority
D. none of the above
Answer b
3.To calculate the minute volume, you need to multiply what
two measurements?
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,A. tidal volume and dead space
B. alveolar ventilation and res. rate
C. tidal volume and res. rate
D. res. rate and bronchial dilation
Answer c
4.The abbreviation mmHg indicates that the blood pressure is
measured by which of the following comparisons?
A. Millimeters of water
B. Millimeters of mercury
C. Atmospheric pressure
D. Minimum heart rate
Answer b
5.Which of the following is NOT determine in a scene-size up?
A. Need for additional resources
B. Chief compliant
C. MOI
D. potential hazards to EMS
Answer b
6.The normal stimulus to breath is stimulated by the
chemoreceptors that measure the change of what two gases?
A. high hydrogen and low carbon dioxide
B. high carbon monoxide and low oxygen
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, C. high carbon dioxide and low oxygen
D. low hydrogen and high carbon monoxide
Answer c
7.What are the three ways to take blood pressure?
A. auscultation, palpation, and osculation
B. palpation, auscultation, and bp monitor
C. sphygomomanometer, auscultation, and bp monitor
Answer b
8.Which of the following patients does NOT require the
administration of supp oxygen?
A. a 6year old male with a history of asthma whose breath
sounds are silent and who is drowsy?
B. A 31-year old male who is unresponsive due to an overdoes of
narcotics
C. A 60 year old woman with a history of COPD who can speak
two or three words at a time without a breath
D. a 24 year old woman who is breathing 28 times per minute
after being in an argument with her husband
Answer d
9.Which of the following presentations would be considered
normal during the Breathing phase of the primary
assessment?
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1.When the EMT checks the pupils he or she is checking for
what three things?
A. color, equality, and reactivity
B. size, equality, and reactivity
C. movement, gaze, and equality
D. reactivity, gaze, and equality
Answer b
2.Which of the following represents the correct order of
assessment for the EMT during the primary assessment from
start to end?
A. Patient priority, general impression, mental status, airway,
breathing, circulation
B. General impression, mental status, airway, breathing,
circulation, patient priority
C. mental status, general impression, airway, breathing
circulation, patient priority
D. none of the above
Answer b
3.To calculate the minute volume, you need to multiply what
two measurements?
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,A. tidal volume and dead space
B. alveolar ventilation and res. rate
C. tidal volume and res. rate
D. res. rate and bronchial dilation
Answer c
4.The abbreviation mmHg indicates that the blood pressure is
measured by which of the following comparisons?
A. Millimeters of water
B. Millimeters of mercury
C. Atmospheric pressure
D. Minimum heart rate
Answer b
5.Which of the following is NOT determine in a scene-size up?
A. Need for additional resources
B. Chief compliant
C. MOI
D. potential hazards to EMS
Answer b
6.The normal stimulus to breath is stimulated by the
chemoreceptors that measure the change of what two gases?
A. high hydrogen and low carbon dioxide
B. high carbon monoxide and low oxygen
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, C. high carbon dioxide and low oxygen
D. low hydrogen and high carbon monoxide
Answer c
7.What are the three ways to take blood pressure?
A. auscultation, palpation, and osculation
B. palpation, auscultation, and bp monitor
C. sphygomomanometer, auscultation, and bp monitor
Answer b
8.Which of the following patients does NOT require the
administration of supp oxygen?
A. a 6year old male with a history of asthma whose breath
sounds are silent and who is drowsy?
B. A 31-year old male who is unresponsive due to an overdoes of
narcotics
C. A 60 year old woman with a history of COPD who can speak
two or three words at a time without a breath
D. a 24 year old woman who is breathing 28 times per minute
after being in an argument with her husband
Answer d
9.Which of the following presentations would be considered
normal during the Breathing phase of the primary
assessment?
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