JB Learning: EMT Chapter 09: Patient
Assessment Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
The secondary muscles of respiration. They include the neck
muscles (sternocleidomastoids), the chest pectoralis major
muscles, and the abdominal muscles. -
correct answer ✅accessory muscles
Any deviation from alert and oriented to person, place, time, and
event, or any deviation from a patient's normal baseline mental
status. -
correct answer ✅altered mental status
To listen to sounds within an organ with a stethoscope. -
correct answer ✅Auscultate
A method of assessing the level of consciousness by determining
whether the patient is awake and alert, responsive to verbal stimuli
or pain, or unresponsive; used principally early in the assessment
process. -
correct answer ✅AVPU scale
The pressure that the blood exerts against the walls of the arteries
as it passes through them. -
correct answer ✅blood pressure
,JB Learning: EMT Chapter 09: Patient
Assessment Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
slow heart rate (less than 60 bpm) -
correct answer ✅Bradycardia
An indication of air movement in the lungs, usually assessed with a
stethoscope. -
correct answer ✅breath sounds
A test that evaluates distal circulatory system function by squeezing
(blanching) blood from an area such as a nail bed and watching the
speed of its return after releasing the pressure. -
correct answer ✅capillary refill
A noninvasive method to quickly and efficiently provide information
on a patient's ventilatory status, circulation, and metabolism;
effectively measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in expired
air over time. -
correct answer ✅capnography
A component of air that typically makes up 0.3% of air at sea level;
also a waste product exhaled during expiration by the respiratory
, JB Learning: EMT Chapter 09: Patient
Assessment Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
system. -
correct answer ✅Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
The main reason the patient called for help; also, the patient's
response to questions such as "what's wrong?" or "What
happened?" -
correct answer ✅Chief Complaint (CC)
To form a clot to plug an opening in an injured blood vessel and
stop bleeding. -
correct answer ✅coagulate
Delicate membrane lining the eyelids and covering the eyeball. -
correct answer ✅Conjunctiva
A cracking, rattling breath sound that signals fluid in the air spaces
of the lungs. -
correct answer ✅crackles (rales)
A grating or grinding sensation caused by fractured bone ends or
joints rubbing together; also air bubbles under the skin that
Assessment Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
The secondary muscles of respiration. They include the neck
muscles (sternocleidomastoids), the chest pectoralis major
muscles, and the abdominal muscles. -
correct answer ✅accessory muscles
Any deviation from alert and oriented to person, place, time, and
event, or any deviation from a patient's normal baseline mental
status. -
correct answer ✅altered mental status
To listen to sounds within an organ with a stethoscope. -
correct answer ✅Auscultate
A method of assessing the level of consciousness by determining
whether the patient is awake and alert, responsive to verbal stimuli
or pain, or unresponsive; used principally early in the assessment
process. -
correct answer ✅AVPU scale
The pressure that the blood exerts against the walls of the arteries
as it passes through them. -
correct answer ✅blood pressure
,JB Learning: EMT Chapter 09: Patient
Assessment Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
slow heart rate (less than 60 bpm) -
correct answer ✅Bradycardia
An indication of air movement in the lungs, usually assessed with a
stethoscope. -
correct answer ✅breath sounds
A test that evaluates distal circulatory system function by squeezing
(blanching) blood from an area such as a nail bed and watching the
speed of its return after releasing the pressure. -
correct answer ✅capillary refill
A noninvasive method to quickly and efficiently provide information
on a patient's ventilatory status, circulation, and metabolism;
effectively measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in expired
air over time. -
correct answer ✅capnography
A component of air that typically makes up 0.3% of air at sea level;
also a waste product exhaled during expiration by the respiratory
, JB Learning: EMT Chapter 09: Patient
Assessment Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
system. -
correct answer ✅Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
The main reason the patient called for help; also, the patient's
response to questions such as "what's wrong?" or "What
happened?" -
correct answer ✅Chief Complaint (CC)
To form a clot to plug an opening in an injured blood vessel and
stop bleeding. -
correct answer ✅coagulate
Delicate membrane lining the eyelids and covering the eyeball. -
correct answer ✅Conjunctiva
A cracking, rattling breath sound that signals fluid in the air spaces
of the lungs. -
correct answer ✅crackles (rales)
A grating or grinding sensation caused by fractured bone ends or
joints rubbing together; also air bubbles under the skin that
