EMS 131 Exam 2 Questions With Correct
Answers
When you give patients nitroglycerin, they sometimes develop a
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headache. This would be called an: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Side effect
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What medication is given when a patient suffers from a medical or
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traumatic condition called hypoxia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Oxygen
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Why would an EMT give aspirin to a patient? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Aspirin reduces the blood's ability to clot and works to prevent further
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clot formation in patients suffering chest pain.
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Nitroglycerin is indicated for which of the following chief complaints? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-chest pain | |
What is the reason for giving an epinephrine auto-injector in a life-
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threatening allergic reaction? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-It will help
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constrict the patient's blood vessels and relax the airway passages.
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Which of the following is a desired action of epinephrine delivered by
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auto-injector? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-constriction of blood vessels
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,What is the first medication that should be administered to a patient
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experiencing chest pain with difficulty breathing? - CORRECT | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Oxygen
You are on the scene of a 68-year-old patient with a history of COPD
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who is breathing 44 times per minute and has a diminished level of
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consciousness. His wife states he has an Albuterol inhaler and | | | | | | | | | |
nitroglycerin tablets for angina. What is the most important drug you
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can administer to the patient? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Oxygen by bag-
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valve mask |
How does nitroglycerin decrease the level of chest pain that a patient
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experiences? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-It dilates the blood vessels, | | | | | | | |
allowing more blood to enter the heart muscle.
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You are on the scene of a 48-year-old male patient complaining of chest
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pain. He has nitroglycerin prescribed and available. After performing
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your physical examination, you contact medical control and are ordered
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to assist the patient in taking his nitroglycerin. Five minutes after taking
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his nitroglycerin, the patient complains of being dizzy and having a
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headache. You lie the patient down on the stretcher and reassess his
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vital signs. He is now hypotensive. The patient is suffering from: -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-side effects of nitroglycerin
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, Which of the following BEST describes the five rights? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Right patient, right medication, right time, right dose, right | | | | | | | |
route
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Name the type of medical direction consisting of standing orders and
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protocols. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-off-line | | |
Your paramedic partner says the patient's IV is infiltrated and she needs
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to discontinue it. What does she mean by "Infiltrated"? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-The needle has either punctured the vein and excited out | | | | | | | | | |
the other side or has pulled out of the vein.
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You have received an order from medical direction that you feel would
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be detrimental to your patient. Which of the following should you do? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Politely question the physician.
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You are attempting to place a nonrebreather mask on a patient who is
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experiencing difficulty breathing. The patient is anxious and does not
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want the mask on his face. Which of the following is the BEST course of
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action? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Explain the importance of oxygen and
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ask the patient to at least try to leave the mask on, but that if he can't
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tolerate it you can try another method.
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Answers
When you give patients nitroglycerin, they sometimes develop a
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headache. This would be called an: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Side effect
| | | | | | | | |
What medication is given when a patient suffers from a medical or
| | | | | | | | | | | |
traumatic condition called hypoxia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Oxygen
| | | | | |
Why would an EMT give aspirin to a patient? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | | | |
Aspirin reduces the blood's ability to clot and works to prevent further
| | | | | | | | | | | |
clot formation in patients suffering chest pain.
| | | | | |
Nitroglycerin is indicated for which of the following chief complaints? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-chest pain | |
What is the reason for giving an epinephrine auto-injector in a life-
| | | | | | | | | | |
threatening allergic reaction? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-It will help
| | | | | | | |
constrict the patient's blood vessels and relax the airway passages.
| | | | | | | | |
Which of the following is a desired action of epinephrine delivered by
| | | | | | | | | | | |
auto-injector? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-constriction of blood vessels
| | | | | |
,What is the first medication that should be administered to a patient
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experiencing chest pain with difficulty breathing? - CORRECT | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Oxygen
You are on the scene of a 68-year-old patient with a history of COPD
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
who is breathing 44 times per minute and has a diminished level of
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
consciousness. His wife states he has an Albuterol inhaler and | | | | | | | | | |
nitroglycerin tablets for angina. What is the most important drug you
| | | | | | | | | | |
can administer to the patient? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Oxygen by bag-
| | | | | | | | |
valve mask |
How does nitroglycerin decrease the level of chest pain that a patient
| | | | | | | | | | | |
experiences? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-It dilates the blood vessels, | | | | | | | |
allowing more blood to enter the heart muscle.
| | | | | | |
You are on the scene of a 48-year-old male patient complaining of chest
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
pain. He has nitroglycerin prescribed and available. After performing
| | | | | | | | |
your physical examination, you contact medical control and are ordered
| | | | | | | | | |
to assist the patient in taking his nitroglycerin. Five minutes after taking
| | | | | | | | | | | |
his nitroglycerin, the patient complains of being dizzy and having a
| | | | | | | | | | |
headache. You lie the patient down on the stretcher and reassess his
| | | | | | | | | | | |
vital signs. He is now hypotensive. The patient is suffering from: -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-side effects of nitroglycerin
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, Which of the following BEST describes the five rights? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Right patient, right medication, right time, right dose, right | | | | | | | |
route
|
Name the type of medical direction consisting of standing orders and
| | | | | | | | | | |
protocols. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-off-line | | |
Your paramedic partner says the patient's IV is infiltrated and she needs
| | | | | | | | | | | |
to discontinue it. What does she mean by "Infiltrated"? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-The needle has either punctured the vein and excited out | | | | | | | | | |
the other side or has pulled out of the vein.
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You have received an order from medical direction that you feel would
| | | | | | | | | | | |
be detrimental to your patient. Which of the following should you do? -
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Politely question the physician.
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You are attempting to place a nonrebreather mask on a patient who is
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
experiencing difficulty breathing. The patient is anxious and does not
| | | | | | | | | |
want the mask on his face. Which of the following is the BEST course of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
action? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Explain the importance of oxygen and
| | | | | | | | |
ask the patient to at least try to leave the mask on, but that if he can't
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
tolerate it you can try another method.
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