EMT Scenarios Questions with correct answers

You respond to a nursing home and find a 78-year-old female with confusion and weakness. Staff informs you that she's had an infection and fever for the past few days. Vitals: BP - 92/56, P 144, SpO2 - 92%. What is your leading suspicion for what is causing this patient's hypotension? Correct Answer - Septic Shock You arrive on scene of a 31-year-old female whose chief complaint is a syncopal episode at a tanning salon. Workers at the salon state they saw the patient collapse after getting out of the tanning booth. All of her vital signs are within normal limits. Her med list states she is on metformin. What would be your next course of action after learning that she is taking this medication? Correct Answer - Check her Capillary Blood Glucose Your patient is a 37-year-old female with hypoglycemia. She is looking at you when you enter the room and mumbles incomprehensible sounds when you call her name. When your partner attempts to start an IV, she pulls her arm away at the pain. Vitals: BP 133/72, P 108, R 14, SpO2 98%, CBG 43. What is this patient's GCS? Correct Answer - 10 You are assessing a 34-year-old male that isn't acting right, according to his family. The patient tells you that he doesn't feel well and may have taken too much insulin. The patient's CBG is 52. What is the most appropriate treatment? Correct Answer - Administer oral glucose, transport You are called to a suburban home at 5 AM on a Saturday, where you find a distressed mother crying and yelling about her baby. She tells you that she had put her 2-month-old to bed at around 10 PM. The mother woke up at around 4 AM, and found her baby lying, unresponsive in her crib. You begin resuscitative efforts en route to the hospital but the patient is pronounced dead upon arrival to the emergency department. What is a likely cause of death for the baby? Correct Answer - SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)