FP-C practice questions and answers

Flight Paramedic Ventilator Patient
Management questions and answers
What is the abbreviation for tidal volume?✔✔Vt


What is the abbreviation for inspiratory reserve volume?✔✔IRV


What is the abbreviation for expiratory reserve volume?✔✔ERV


What is the abbreviations for vital capacity?✔✔VC


What is the abbreviation for residual volume?✔✔RV


What is the abbreviation for total lung capacity?✔✔TLC


What is tidal volume?✔✔amount of air inhaled and exhaled during a normal
breathing cycle.


What is inspiratory reserve volume?✔✔Amount of air that can be forcefully
inhaled after a normal tidal volume inhalation


What is expiratory reserve volume (ERV)?✔✔amount of air that can be
forcefully exhaled after a normal tidal volume expiration


What is vital capacity?✔✔the volume of air that the patient can exhale after a
maximal inhalation. Vt+IRV+ERV+RV

, What is residual volume?✔✔amount of air remaining in the lungs after a
forced expiration.


What is dead space?✔✔The surfaces of the airway that are not involved in
gaseous exchange.


Gas exchange can ONLY occur in the __________________ .✔✔alveoli


How many different sets of chemoreceptors do we have?✔✔2


Your ______________ chemoreceptors are located in your pons /
medulla.✔✔central


Your ___________________ chemoreceptors are located within your aortic
arch and carotid bodies.✔✔peripheral.


What are your central receptors driven by?✔✔CO2 AND H+


What are your peripheral receptors driven by?✔✔O2, CO2, H+


What is V/Q Scanning?✔✔A nuclear medicine study used to evaluate the
circulation of air and blood within a patient's lungs in order to determine the
ventilation/perfusion ratio.


Which part of the V/Q looks at the ability of air to reach all parts of the
lungs?✔✔The ventilation portion.