West Coast EMT Block #2 Exam
B. begin CPR until an AED is available. - answers✔✔A 60-year-old man is found to be unresponsive,
pulseless, and apneic. You should:
B. noninvasive emergency care that is used to treat conditions such as airway obstruction, respiratory
arrest, and cardiac arrest. - answers✔✔Basic life support (BLS) is defined as:
B. allow full chest recoil - answers✔✔Between each chest compression, you should __________.
B. gastric distention. - answers✔✔Complications associated with chest compressions include all of the
following, EXCEPT:
D. Pressure was relieved from her aorta and vena cava, which improved chest compression
effectiveness. - answers✔✔CPR is in progress on a pregnant woman. Shortly after manually displacing
her uterus to the left, return of spontaneous circulation occurs. Which of the following would MOST
likely explain this?
C. involves hands-on practice. - answers✔✔CPR retraining is the MOST effective when it:
D. a valid living will is unavailable. - answers✔✔CPR should be initiated when:
B. prone. - answers✔✔CPR will NOT be effective if the patient is:
e. if you ventilate a patient too quickly. - answers✔✔Gastric distention will MOST likely occur:
C. remove it - answers✔✔If an object is visible in the unconscious patient's airway, you should
__________.
,C. respiratory arrest. - answers✔✔In most cases, cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children is
caused by:
D. carefully perform the head tilt-chin lift maneuver. - answers✔✔Several attempts to adequately open
a trauma patient's airway with the jaw-thrust maneuver have been unsuccessful. You should:
D. forceful coughing. - answers✔✔Signs of a sudden severe upper airway obstruction include all of the
following, EXCEPT:
A. limiting the amount of air that enters the lungs during the recoil phase between chest compressions,
which results in negative intrathoracic pressure and improved cardiac filling. - answers✔✔The
impedance threshold device (ITD) may improve circulation during active compression-decompression
CPR by:
A. 30:2 - answers✔✔What is the correct compression-to-ventilation ratio for adult CPR?
B. with one or two hands. - answers✔✔When performing CPR on a child, you should compress the
chest:
D. move to the opposite side of the patient's chest. - answers✔✔While rescuer one is finishing his or her
fifth cycle of 30 compressions, rescuer two should:
D. deteriorate over time - answers✔✔Without practice, your CPR skills will __________.
B. encourage the patient to cough. - answers✔✔Your conscious patient has a mild partial airway
obstruction. You should:
D. remove the medication patch, wipe away any medication residue, and apply the AED pads. -
answers✔✔Your partner is performing one-rescuer CPR on a middle-aged woman in cardiac arrest.
When you apply the AED pads, you note that she has a medication patch over the same area where one
of the AED pads will be placed. You should:
, C. you were exposed to another infected person prior to treating the 34-year-old patient. -
answers✔✔Ten days after treating a 34-year-old patient with tuberculosis, you are given a tuberculin
skin test, which yields a positive result. This MOST likely indicates that:
Select one:
D. take standard precautions. - answers✔✔After sizing up the scene of a patient with a possible
infectious disease, your next priority should be to:
C. a medical condition caused by the growth and spread of small, harmful organisms within the body. -
answers✔✔An infectious disease is MOST accurately defined as:
Select one:
A. nature of illness - answers✔✔Assessment of the medical patient is usually focused on the _________.
B. has a greater ability to produce disease. - answers✔✔Hepatitis B is more virulent than hepatitis C,
which means that it:
D. pandemics. - answers✔✔In 2009, the H1N1 virus accounted for over 200,000 deaths worldwide in
the form of the swine flu. In 1919, a similar outbreak of the H1N1 occurred in the form of the Spanish
flu. Starting in Kansas City, the virus spread rapidly worldwide, claiming up to 50 million lives. These are
both examples of:
D. 61-year-old man with signs and symptoms of a stroke and a ground transport time of 50 minutes -
answers✔✔In which of the following situations would it be MOST appropriate to utilize an air medical
transportation service?
D. neurologic - answers✔✔It is especially important to assess pulse, sensation, and movement in all
extremities as well as pupillary reactions in patients with a suspected ___________ problem.
D. a fever - answers✔✔Most patients with an infectious disease will have _________.
C. address the patient's symptoms - answers✔✔Most treatments provided in the prehospital setting are
intended to _________.
B. begin CPR until an AED is available. - answers✔✔A 60-year-old man is found to be unresponsive,
pulseless, and apneic. You should:
B. noninvasive emergency care that is used to treat conditions such as airway obstruction, respiratory
arrest, and cardiac arrest. - answers✔✔Basic life support (BLS) is defined as:
B. allow full chest recoil - answers✔✔Between each chest compression, you should __________.
B. gastric distention. - answers✔✔Complications associated with chest compressions include all of the
following, EXCEPT:
D. Pressure was relieved from her aorta and vena cava, which improved chest compression
effectiveness. - answers✔✔CPR is in progress on a pregnant woman. Shortly after manually displacing
her uterus to the left, return of spontaneous circulation occurs. Which of the following would MOST
likely explain this?
C. involves hands-on practice. - answers✔✔CPR retraining is the MOST effective when it:
D. a valid living will is unavailable. - answers✔✔CPR should be initiated when:
B. prone. - answers✔✔CPR will NOT be effective if the patient is:
e. if you ventilate a patient too quickly. - answers✔✔Gastric distention will MOST likely occur:
C. remove it - answers✔✔If an object is visible in the unconscious patient's airway, you should
__________.
,C. respiratory arrest. - answers✔✔In most cases, cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children is
caused by:
D. carefully perform the head tilt-chin lift maneuver. - answers✔✔Several attempts to adequately open
a trauma patient's airway with the jaw-thrust maneuver have been unsuccessful. You should:
D. forceful coughing. - answers✔✔Signs of a sudden severe upper airway obstruction include all of the
following, EXCEPT:
A. limiting the amount of air that enters the lungs during the recoil phase between chest compressions,
which results in negative intrathoracic pressure and improved cardiac filling. - answers✔✔The
impedance threshold device (ITD) may improve circulation during active compression-decompression
CPR by:
A. 30:2 - answers✔✔What is the correct compression-to-ventilation ratio for adult CPR?
B. with one or two hands. - answers✔✔When performing CPR on a child, you should compress the
chest:
D. move to the opposite side of the patient's chest. - answers✔✔While rescuer one is finishing his or her
fifth cycle of 30 compressions, rescuer two should:
D. deteriorate over time - answers✔✔Without practice, your CPR skills will __________.
B. encourage the patient to cough. - answers✔✔Your conscious patient has a mild partial airway
obstruction. You should:
D. remove the medication patch, wipe away any medication residue, and apply the AED pads. -
answers✔✔Your partner is performing one-rescuer CPR on a middle-aged woman in cardiac arrest.
When you apply the AED pads, you note that she has a medication patch over the same area where one
of the AED pads will be placed. You should:
, C. you were exposed to another infected person prior to treating the 34-year-old patient. -
answers✔✔Ten days after treating a 34-year-old patient with tuberculosis, you are given a tuberculin
skin test, which yields a positive result. This MOST likely indicates that:
Select one:
D. take standard precautions. - answers✔✔After sizing up the scene of a patient with a possible
infectious disease, your next priority should be to:
C. a medical condition caused by the growth and spread of small, harmful organisms within the body. -
answers✔✔An infectious disease is MOST accurately defined as:
Select one:
A. nature of illness - answers✔✔Assessment of the medical patient is usually focused on the _________.
B. has a greater ability to produce disease. - answers✔✔Hepatitis B is more virulent than hepatitis C,
which means that it:
D. pandemics. - answers✔✔In 2009, the H1N1 virus accounted for over 200,000 deaths worldwide in
the form of the swine flu. In 1919, a similar outbreak of the H1N1 occurred in the form of the Spanish
flu. Starting in Kansas City, the virus spread rapidly worldwide, claiming up to 50 million lives. These are
both examples of:
D. 61-year-old man with signs and symptoms of a stroke and a ground transport time of 50 minutes -
answers✔✔In which of the following situations would it be MOST appropriate to utilize an air medical
transportation service?
D. neurologic - answers✔✔It is especially important to assess pulse, sensation, and movement in all
extremities as well as pupillary reactions in patients with a suspected ___________ problem.
D. a fever - answers✔✔Most patients with an infectious disease will have _________.
C. address the patient's symptoms - answers✔✔Most treatments provided in the prehospital setting are
intended to _________.
