NREMT Practice Test 2 with complete
solutions
According to your county's protocol, you as an EMT are required to request medical
direction via radio prior to the administration of prescribed nitroglycerin. This is called: -
Correct Answers -On-line medical direction
You arrive on scene where you find a 23-year-old male patient who is unresponsive,
apneic, and pulseless. You begin CPR and send your partner to retrieve the AED from
the ambulance. After placing the defibrillator pads on the patient's chest, your partner
notices a sudden influx of air that seems to fill the patient's abdomen. Should you
defibrillate the patient? Why? - Correct Answers -Yes, the breath your partner noticed
was an agonal breath, and the AED will detect if the patient is in a shockable rhythm or
not.
A patient who has experienced a DVT is at higher risk for what type of CVA? - Correct
Answers -Ischemic stroke
You are transporting a perfectly stable patient, and are having a nice conversation with
him in the back of the ambulance. As you unload the patient and go into the hospital,
you notice that the hospital is very busy. As you find the patient's room, you try your
absolute best to look for a nurse so that you may notify the hospital of the patient's
presence. You are unable to find a nurse that you can transfer the paperwork and care
over to. The patient seems to be in stable condition, so you unload the patient from your
gurney, help him to a chair, high-five him, and tell him that a nurse will see him shortly
to help him to his room. You leave the paperwork with the patient to give to the nurse.
You then exit the scene and go back to your ambulance with your partner to prepare for
your next call. You have just committed: - Correct Answers -Abandonment
When a patient is breathing at a rapid rate (40 breaths per minute) and that breathing is
shallow, the patient is at risk of: - Correct Answers -Having low amounts of minute
volume
Taking a drug either through injection or absorption: - Correct Answers -Shows similar
effects
Which triad characterizes cardiac tamponade? Why? - Correct Answers -Beck's triad -
Low arterial blood pressure, narrow pulse pressure, jugular vein distension, muffled
heart sounds.
solutions
According to your county's protocol, you as an EMT are required to request medical
direction via radio prior to the administration of prescribed nitroglycerin. This is called: -
Correct Answers -On-line medical direction
You arrive on scene where you find a 23-year-old male patient who is unresponsive,
apneic, and pulseless. You begin CPR and send your partner to retrieve the AED from
the ambulance. After placing the defibrillator pads on the patient's chest, your partner
notices a sudden influx of air that seems to fill the patient's abdomen. Should you
defibrillate the patient? Why? - Correct Answers -Yes, the breath your partner noticed
was an agonal breath, and the AED will detect if the patient is in a shockable rhythm or
not.
A patient who has experienced a DVT is at higher risk for what type of CVA? - Correct
Answers -Ischemic stroke
You are transporting a perfectly stable patient, and are having a nice conversation with
him in the back of the ambulance. As you unload the patient and go into the hospital,
you notice that the hospital is very busy. As you find the patient's room, you try your
absolute best to look for a nurse so that you may notify the hospital of the patient's
presence. You are unable to find a nurse that you can transfer the paperwork and care
over to. The patient seems to be in stable condition, so you unload the patient from your
gurney, help him to a chair, high-five him, and tell him that a nurse will see him shortly
to help him to his room. You leave the paperwork with the patient to give to the nurse.
You then exit the scene and go back to your ambulance with your partner to prepare for
your next call. You have just committed: - Correct Answers -Abandonment
When a patient is breathing at a rapid rate (40 breaths per minute) and that breathing is
shallow, the patient is at risk of: - Correct Answers -Having low amounts of minute
volume
Taking a drug either through injection or absorption: - Correct Answers -Shows similar
effects
Which triad characterizes cardiac tamponade? Why? - Correct Answers -Beck's triad -
Low arterial blood pressure, narrow pulse pressure, jugular vein distension, muffled
heart sounds.
