West Coast EMT Block 3 Study Guide with Complete Solutions (100% Pass)

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West Coast EMT Block 3 Study Guide
with Complete Solutions (100% Pass)

what is the function of the liver - ✔️✔️Removing waste created by digestion


produce bile


where is the liver located - ✔️✔️right upper quadrant


what is the function of the pancreas - ✔️✔️Secretes inslin and glucagon hormones and

makes pancreatic juices


where is the pancreas located - ✔️✔️posterior to the stomach


what is the function of the spleen - ✔️✔️filter blood and help fight infections


where is the spleen located - ✔️✔️LUQ


what is the function of the gallbladder - ✔️✔️stores and concentrates bile


Where is the gallbladder located? - ✔️✔️under the liver, RUQ


what are the three motor vehicle collisions - ✔️✔️1. car against another car


2. passenger against interior of car


3. passenger's organs against solid structures of body



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what are arteries - ✔️✔️Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart


what are arterioles - ✔️✔️Arterioles are the smallest arteries


what are capillaries - ✔️✔️Capillaries are the exchange vessels. They are microscopic

and have only one wall—tunica intima—allowing substances to pass through quickly.


what are venules - ✔️✔️smallest veins


bones of the face - ✔️✔️mandible


maxillae


nasal bone


palatine bone and nasal conchae


vomer


zygomatic bone


lacrimal bone


hyoid bone


Where is CSF produced? - ✔️✔️choroid plexus


what is the function of CSF? - ✔️✔️protects and nourishes the brain and spinal cord


what is the phrenic nerve? - ✔️✔️major motor and sensory nerve of the diaphragm




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C3-C5


what is flail chest - ✔️✔️A fracture of two or more sites on two or more adjacent ribs, or

when rib fractures produce a free-floating sternum.




Flail segments may not be clinically evident in the first several hours after injury b/c of

muscle spasms that cause splinting. After positive pressure initiated, paradoxical chest

wall movement ceases.


What is cardiac tamponade? - ✔️✔️compression of the heart by an accumulation of fluid

in the pericardial sac


S/S of a Cardiac tamponade - ✔️✔️- Chest pain


- Dsypnea


- Beck's Triad (Decreased BP, Muffled heart sounds, JVD)


- Kussmaul sign


what is a sprain? - ✔️✔️stretching or tearing of ligaments


what is a strain? - ✔️✔️stretching or tearing of muscle or tendon


what is a dislocation? - ✔️✔️total loss of congruity -- between the articular surfaces of the

joint




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What is Biot's respiration? - ✔️✔️Biot's respirations are rapid, deep breathing with abrupt

pauses between each breath and an equal depth to each breath.


What is epistaxis and what causes it? - ✔️✔️loss of blood through the nose (nosebleed);

usually caused by injury either external or internal - such as blow to nose, nose picking

or foreign body insertion


6 "P's" of musculoskeletal injury - ✔️✔️pain


paralysis


paresthesias - burning or pricking


pulselessness


pallor


pressure


what is the limbic system? - ✔️✔️a complex system of nerves and networks in the brain,

involving several areas near the edge of the cortex concerned with instinct and mood. It

controls the basic emotions (fear, pleasure, anger) and drives (hunger, sex, dominance,

care of offspring).


hematuria - ✔️✔️presence of blood in the urine


hemoptysis - ✔️✔️coughing/spitting up blood




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