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EMT Exam 4 JB Learning – Trauma &
Airway Management Practice Questions
with Answers
1. SAMPLE stands for - ANSWER ✔ - Signs and symptoms
Allergies
Medication
Past medical history
Last oral intake
Events leading up to
2. A patient has cool skin, shallow breathing and a diminished LOC. Your interventions would be: -
ANSWER ✔ - Increase depth of respirations, high flow oxygen, and transport ASAP
3. Initial Assessment includes - ANSWER ✔ - Forming a general impression
4. A fall patient has discoloration and tenderness to the left side of the chest. Upon auscultation, you
hear diminished breath sounds on the affected side. You should: - ANSWER ✔ - Classify the patient
as major trauma and immediately transport
5. Traumatic Asphyxia presents as - ANSWER ✔ - bulging eyes and discoloration of the body above the
shoulders
6. What are the quickest ways to assess perfusion? - ANSWER ✔ - Capillary refill and pulse
7. A patient with diminished level of consciousness, abdominal bleeding and a swollen and deformed
arm is an example of: - ANSWER ✔ - Major Trauma
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8. If your patient has develops severe dyspnea after you have already sealed their sucking chest
wound, you should - ANSWER ✔ - Lift the occlusive dressing upon exhalation to release the air and
then re-seal it.
9. If your patient gags when trying to insert an OPA, you should - ANSWER ✔ - remove the
oropharyngeal airway and prepare for the patient to vomit.
10. When a patient has dyspnea and paradoxical movement on a side of their chest, you should suspect:
- ANSWER ✔ - that the patient has Flail Chest
11. When securing a patient to a back board you - ANSWER ✔ - Apply a c-collar, maintain manual
stabilization of the head until secured to the backboard, and secure the axial skeleton to the
backboard before the head.
12. Unequal breath sounds and/or unequal chest expansion are signs and symptoms of - ANSWER ✔ - a
closed chest wall injury
13. If someone has an impaled object in their chest you should - ANSWER ✔ - stabilize the object,
provide high flow oxygen, monitor vital signs, and provide rapid transport
14. During a Rapid Trauma Assessment, when assessing the pelvis, you should - ANSWER ✔ - apply
gentle pressure to the iliac crests downwards and and then inwards.
15. When communicating patient information over the radio or to the hospital destination, you should
include the patient's - ANSWER ✔ - level of consciousness (LOC), age, sex, and chief complaint.
16. spontaneous pneumothorax - ANSWER ✔ - A pneumothorax that occurs when a weak area on the
lung ruptures in the absence of major injury or trauma, allowing air to leak into the pleural space.
17. Patient assessment always begins with - ANSWER ✔ - scene size up
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EMT Exam 4 JB Learning – Trauma &
Airway Management Practice Questions
with Answers
1. SAMPLE stands for - ANSWER ✔ - Signs and symptoms
Allergies
Medication
Past medical history
Last oral intake
Events leading up to
2. A patient has cool skin, shallow breathing and a diminished LOC. Your interventions would be: -
ANSWER ✔ - Increase depth of respirations, high flow oxygen, and transport ASAP
3. Initial Assessment includes - ANSWER ✔ - Forming a general impression
4. A fall patient has discoloration and tenderness to the left side of the chest. Upon auscultation, you
hear diminished breath sounds on the affected side. You should: - ANSWER ✔ - Classify the patient
as major trauma and immediately transport
5. Traumatic Asphyxia presents as - ANSWER ✔ - bulging eyes and discoloration of the body above the
shoulders
6. What are the quickest ways to assess perfusion? - ANSWER ✔ - Capillary refill and pulse
7. A patient with diminished level of consciousness, abdominal bleeding and a swollen and deformed
arm is an example of: - ANSWER ✔ - Major Trauma
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8. If your patient has develops severe dyspnea after you have already sealed their sucking chest
wound, you should - ANSWER ✔ - Lift the occlusive dressing upon exhalation to release the air and
then re-seal it.
9. If your patient gags when trying to insert an OPA, you should - ANSWER ✔ - remove the
oropharyngeal airway and prepare for the patient to vomit.
10. When a patient has dyspnea and paradoxical movement on a side of their chest, you should suspect:
- ANSWER ✔ - that the patient has Flail Chest
11. When securing a patient to a back board you - ANSWER ✔ - Apply a c-collar, maintain manual
stabilization of the head until secured to the backboard, and secure the axial skeleton to the
backboard before the head.
12. Unequal breath sounds and/or unequal chest expansion are signs and symptoms of - ANSWER ✔ - a
closed chest wall injury
13. If someone has an impaled object in their chest you should - ANSWER ✔ - stabilize the object,
provide high flow oxygen, monitor vital signs, and provide rapid transport
14. During a Rapid Trauma Assessment, when assessing the pelvis, you should - ANSWER ✔ - apply
gentle pressure to the iliac crests downwards and and then inwards.
15. When communicating patient information over the radio or to the hospital destination, you should
include the patient's - ANSWER ✔ - level of consciousness (LOC), age, sex, and chief complaint.
16. spontaneous pneumothorax - ANSWER ✔ - A pneumothorax that occurs when a weak area on the
lung ruptures in the absence of major injury or trauma, allowing air to leak into the pleural space.
17. Patient assessment always begins with - ANSWER ✔ - scene size up
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