AMLS UPDATED TESTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
MARKED A+
✔✔What is Proximal Nocturnal Dyspnea? - ✔✔Can't lay down at night without getting
shortness of breath
✔✔What patients generally have PND? - ✔✔CHF
✔✔What is another name for CHF? - ✔✔Left sided heart failure
✔✔Fever and history of upper respiratory infection, that also has increased water
intake, orthostatic hypotension, and increased urination - ✔✔THINK ABOUT THAT
✔✔What is wrong if someone has increased urination, increased thirst, low BP, with
warm, dry skin? - ✔✔DKA
✔✔Can an infection increase your temperature? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔Can an infection increase your blood sugar? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔If you are a diabetic with an infection, what are you more likely to go into? - ✔✔DKA
✔✔If I have a fever, HR through the roof, tremors, low BP, and a history of Grave's
Disease, how do i manage this? - ✔✔Fluids, continuous 12 lead monitoring, Beta
Blockers
✔✔What happens to Bicarb in metabolic acidosis? - ✔✔Increases
✔✔What happens to pH in metabolic acidosis? - ✔✔Decreases
✔✔What happens to CO2 in metabolic acidosis? - ✔✔Increases
✔✔What is the second process in the pathway of AMLS assessment? - ✔✔Look for
immediate life threats
✔✔What is the first process in the pathway of AMLS assessment? - ✔✔Safety and
initial observation
✔✔What does observing a patient's body positioning indicate? - ✔✔If they are sick or
not sick
✔✔What is one of the most crucial things to do when you suspect a patient has a
stroke? - ✔✔look at time, how long they've had symptoms
, ✔✔What type of bleeding occurs in a subdural hemorrhage? - ✔✔slow
✔✔What type of bleeding occurs in an epidural hemorrhage? - ✔✔fast
✔✔What type of hemorrhage has a thunder clap? - ✔✔subarachnoid
✔✔What type of hemorrhage has a person experienced if its fast onset, followed by a
period of unconsciousness, waking up lucid? - ✔✔epidural
✔✔What type of hemorrhage has a person experienced that is slow onset, usually
several days to a week? - ✔✔subdural
✔✔If I have urticaria and can't breath, what is going on? - ✔✔anaphylaxis
✔✔How do you treat anaphylaxis? - ✔✔Remove allergen, ABCs, Benedryl, Epi
✔✔When does someone need Epi, based on their vital signs? - ✔✔Hypotension,
cardiac arrest
✔✔If someone has two cardiac stints and a family history, what information is most
concerning? - ✔✔the two cardiac stints
✔✔Chest pain, shortness of breath, bed ridden after recent hip surgery, indicates what?
- ✔✔Pulmonary Embolosim
✔✔Red rash and bumps after a knee replacement, indicates what? - ✔✔MRSA
✔✔What is the number one infection that people get in the hospital after surgeries? -
✔✔MRSA
✔✔What does a patient (or foreign exchange student) have with a flat rash, ill, fever,
nuchal rigidity? - ✔✔Meningitis
✔✔If a patient has been ill for three days with abdominal cramping and vomiting, not
due to alcohol, an epigastric problem, or lower right quadrant, what is likely the
problem? - ✔✔Gastroenteritis, or the stomach flu
✔✔Involuntary leg movement when you flex your neck, or bend your knees your neck
comes forward, is usually a sign of what? - ✔✔Meningitis (Brudzinski's sign)
✔✔Extreme thirst, diabetes, low BP, with 14 respirations a minute, indicates what? -
✔✔Hyperglycemic Hyperosmotic Nonketotic Syndrome (HHNS)
MARKED A+
✔✔What is Proximal Nocturnal Dyspnea? - ✔✔Can't lay down at night without getting
shortness of breath
✔✔What patients generally have PND? - ✔✔CHF
✔✔What is another name for CHF? - ✔✔Left sided heart failure
✔✔Fever and history of upper respiratory infection, that also has increased water
intake, orthostatic hypotension, and increased urination - ✔✔THINK ABOUT THAT
✔✔What is wrong if someone has increased urination, increased thirst, low BP, with
warm, dry skin? - ✔✔DKA
✔✔Can an infection increase your temperature? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔Can an infection increase your blood sugar? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔If you are a diabetic with an infection, what are you more likely to go into? - ✔✔DKA
✔✔If I have a fever, HR through the roof, tremors, low BP, and a history of Grave's
Disease, how do i manage this? - ✔✔Fluids, continuous 12 lead monitoring, Beta
Blockers
✔✔What happens to Bicarb in metabolic acidosis? - ✔✔Increases
✔✔What happens to pH in metabolic acidosis? - ✔✔Decreases
✔✔What happens to CO2 in metabolic acidosis? - ✔✔Increases
✔✔What is the second process in the pathway of AMLS assessment? - ✔✔Look for
immediate life threats
✔✔What is the first process in the pathway of AMLS assessment? - ✔✔Safety and
initial observation
✔✔What does observing a patient's body positioning indicate? - ✔✔If they are sick or
not sick
✔✔What is one of the most crucial things to do when you suspect a patient has a
stroke? - ✔✔look at time, how long they've had symptoms
, ✔✔What type of bleeding occurs in a subdural hemorrhage? - ✔✔slow
✔✔What type of bleeding occurs in an epidural hemorrhage? - ✔✔fast
✔✔What type of hemorrhage has a thunder clap? - ✔✔subarachnoid
✔✔What type of hemorrhage has a person experienced if its fast onset, followed by a
period of unconsciousness, waking up lucid? - ✔✔epidural
✔✔What type of hemorrhage has a person experienced that is slow onset, usually
several days to a week? - ✔✔subdural
✔✔If I have urticaria and can't breath, what is going on? - ✔✔anaphylaxis
✔✔How do you treat anaphylaxis? - ✔✔Remove allergen, ABCs, Benedryl, Epi
✔✔When does someone need Epi, based on their vital signs? - ✔✔Hypotension,
cardiac arrest
✔✔If someone has two cardiac stints and a family history, what information is most
concerning? - ✔✔the two cardiac stints
✔✔Chest pain, shortness of breath, bed ridden after recent hip surgery, indicates what?
- ✔✔Pulmonary Embolosim
✔✔Red rash and bumps after a knee replacement, indicates what? - ✔✔MRSA
✔✔What is the number one infection that people get in the hospital after surgeries? -
✔✔MRSA
✔✔What does a patient (or foreign exchange student) have with a flat rash, ill, fever,
nuchal rigidity? - ✔✔Meningitis
✔✔If a patient has been ill for three days with abdominal cramping and vomiting, not
due to alcohol, an epigastric problem, or lower right quadrant, what is likely the
problem? - ✔✔Gastroenteritis, or the stomach flu
✔✔Involuntary leg movement when you flex your neck, or bend your knees your neck
comes forward, is usually a sign of what? - ✔✔Meningitis (Brudzinski's sign)
✔✔Extreme thirst, diabetes, low BP, with 14 respirations a minute, indicates what? -
✔✔Hyperglycemic Hyperosmotic Nonketotic Syndrome (HHNS)
