OEC 2020 Exam Questions with Correct Answers

OEC 2020 Exam Questions with Correct Answers Acute Mountain Sickness Symptoms - Answer-Headache & Feelings of Sickness What order should you approach a patient in a field setting? - Answer-1) Scene Size-Up 2) Primary Assessment 3) Second Assessment What is the normal range for respiratory rate in in children? - Answer-18 breaths per minute In the START system for triaging patients you should include _______ in your assessment to determine the order in which patients will receive emergency care? - Answer-respiratory rate, pules, mental status, ability to walk While a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest receives emergency care you note that her abdomen grows larger with each ventilation provided from a bag-valve mask. What instructions should you provide? - Answer-"Let's slow the ventilation rate to 12 per minute and not squeeze in as much air with each breath." A 25-year-old woman arrives in the aid room with her husband. She is 37 weeks pregnant and in labor. Your exam reveals the baby's head is coming out of the mother. What do you do? - Answer-Have someone call for EMS and prepare for delivery of the baby and open and prepare an obstetrical kit. Special operations is a term used to denote infrequently performed activities that...? - Answer-require specialized training, skills, and equipment in a remote setting A person in poor health cannot tolerate..? (Think Blood & Shock) - Answer-the same amount of blood loss as a healthier person and can enter shock sooner What is the coccyx? - Answer-Tailbone An allergic reaction to a substance can occur? - Answer-minutes, or hours, after exposure to the substance. Describe a man lying in the prone position - Answer-lying face down on his stomach An OEC Technician identifies the medications a patient takes during what process? - Answer-SAMPLE You have been called to an unknown medical emergency. On scene you are presented with an 84-year-old patient who is confused and does not obey commands. What do you do? - Answer-Question the patient's family members would be the best way to determine the patient's mental status. The major cause of death in avalanche victims is? - Answer-asphyxiation To decrease a patient's heat loss due to radiation? - Answer-Put a hat on the patient's head What is the epiglottis? - Answer-The epiglottis is he leaf-shaped flap that helps prevent food from entering the lower respiratory system. A young intoxicated male patient cannot move his lower extremities after diving into the shallow end of a pool and hitting the bottom with his head. What type of mechanism of injury does he have? - Answer-Compression mechanisms is most likely to be responsible for this injury. You have responded to a scene at which a young man tells you he splashed a chemical into his eye. He is complaining of burning and pain in his right eye. After performing a primary assessment and finding no life-threatening conditions, - Answer-you would hold the patient's injured eye open and flush it with large amounts of sterile water from the nose to the outer edge of the eye. An oropharyngeal airway can be used..? - Answer-In an unresponsive patient with no gag reflex Who is in charge of a crime scene @ your ski area? - Answer-The responding law enforcement officer is in charge of a crime scene at your ski area. At the biological level what is shock? - Answer-when cells are not getting enough oxygen and nutrients You have been called to aid a patient with abdominal pain. The patient states that he recently had his gall bladder removed. As an OEC Technician, you realize that the gallbladder is located - Answer-the right upper abdominal quadrant A patient complains of severe and sharp pain in the right lower abdominal quadrant. Based on the location, - Answer-The appendix is most likely involved