EMS1055 LATEST 2026 EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Tidal volume (Vt) - ✔✔Air moved in and out of lungs during a breath
✔✔Minute ventilation formula? - ✔✔Vt x respiratory rate
✔✔Alveolar minute ventilation formula? - ✔✔(Vt - dead space) x respiratory rate
✔✔Bag valve mask liters per minute (LPM)? - ✔✔10-15 LPM
✔✔Non-rebreather mask liters per minute? - ✔✔10-15 LPM
✔✔Venturi mask liters per minute? - ✔✔2-15 LPM
✔✔Nasal Cannula liters per minute? - ✔✔0.5-6 LPM
✔✔How to measure a king tube airway and when to use it? - ✔✔Measure based on
height. Only use it on patients without a gag reflex.
✔✔Tachypnea possible diagnoses? - ✔✔Diabetic ketoacidosis
✔✔Shallow breathing possible diagnoses? - ✔✔Head injury or pneumothorax
✔✔Recovery position and when to use it? - ✔✔On the side with upper arm under head.
Protects airway but not the c-spine
✔✔Trendelenberg position? - ✔✔Elevated feet. Used for shock
✔✔SAMPLE acronym - ✔✔Signs/Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past medical
history, Last meal/bowel/menses, Events leading up
✔✔Signs are what? - ✔✔Things that are seen like cyanosis, pallor
✔✔Symptoms are what? - ✔✔Things that the patient tells us like pain, difficulty
breathing
✔✔OPPQRST acronym - ✔✔Onset, Provocation/Palliation, Quality, Radiation, Severity,
Time
✔✔Urticaria is what? - ✔✔Hives
✔✔Prutitis is what? - ✔✔Itchiness
, ✔✔Edema is what? - ✔✔Swelling
✔✔Rhonchi - ✔✔Mucous build up. Slight gurgling
✔✔Wheezes - ✔✔Anaphylaxis, asthma
✔✔Stridor - ✔✔Upper airway obstruction. Strained sound
✔✔Rales (coarse) - ✔✔Pulmonary edema. Sounds like ice in a drink.
✔✔Rales (fine) - ✔✔Pulmonary edema. Sounds like velcro
✔✔Kussmal's Breathing pattern - ✔✔Diabetic ketoacidosis.
✔✔Cheyne-Stokes breathing - ✔✔Brain injury. Starts small and grows then shrinks to
nothing and repeats
✔✔CHART acronym - ✔✔Chief complaint, history, assessment, treatment (Rx),
transportation
✔✔Glasgow coma scale max score? - ✔✔15
✔✔Glasgow coma scale minimum score? - ✔✔3
✔✔Primary blast injury? - ✔✔Overpressure
✔✔Secondary blast injury? - ✔✔Shrapnel
✔✔Tertiary blast injury? - ✔✔Impact from being thrown
✔✔Quaternary blast injury? - ✔✔Burns, fumes
✔✔Quinary blast injury? - ✔✔CBRN contaminants
✔✔Trauma vitals - ✔✔GCS ≤13, Systolic BP <90 mmHg, Respiratory rate <10 or >29
bpm
✔✔DCAP-BLS-TIC - ✔✔Deformities
Contusions
Abrasions
Penetrations
Burns
Lacerations
Swelling
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Tidal volume (Vt) - ✔✔Air moved in and out of lungs during a breath
✔✔Minute ventilation formula? - ✔✔Vt x respiratory rate
✔✔Alveolar minute ventilation formula? - ✔✔(Vt - dead space) x respiratory rate
✔✔Bag valve mask liters per minute (LPM)? - ✔✔10-15 LPM
✔✔Non-rebreather mask liters per minute? - ✔✔10-15 LPM
✔✔Venturi mask liters per minute? - ✔✔2-15 LPM
✔✔Nasal Cannula liters per minute? - ✔✔0.5-6 LPM
✔✔How to measure a king tube airway and when to use it? - ✔✔Measure based on
height. Only use it on patients without a gag reflex.
✔✔Tachypnea possible diagnoses? - ✔✔Diabetic ketoacidosis
✔✔Shallow breathing possible diagnoses? - ✔✔Head injury or pneumothorax
✔✔Recovery position and when to use it? - ✔✔On the side with upper arm under head.
Protects airway but not the c-spine
✔✔Trendelenberg position? - ✔✔Elevated feet. Used for shock
✔✔SAMPLE acronym - ✔✔Signs/Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past medical
history, Last meal/bowel/menses, Events leading up
✔✔Signs are what? - ✔✔Things that are seen like cyanosis, pallor
✔✔Symptoms are what? - ✔✔Things that the patient tells us like pain, difficulty
breathing
✔✔OPPQRST acronym - ✔✔Onset, Provocation/Palliation, Quality, Radiation, Severity,
Time
✔✔Urticaria is what? - ✔✔Hives
✔✔Prutitis is what? - ✔✔Itchiness
, ✔✔Edema is what? - ✔✔Swelling
✔✔Rhonchi - ✔✔Mucous build up. Slight gurgling
✔✔Wheezes - ✔✔Anaphylaxis, asthma
✔✔Stridor - ✔✔Upper airway obstruction. Strained sound
✔✔Rales (coarse) - ✔✔Pulmonary edema. Sounds like ice in a drink.
✔✔Rales (fine) - ✔✔Pulmonary edema. Sounds like velcro
✔✔Kussmal's Breathing pattern - ✔✔Diabetic ketoacidosis.
✔✔Cheyne-Stokes breathing - ✔✔Brain injury. Starts small and grows then shrinks to
nothing and repeats
✔✔CHART acronym - ✔✔Chief complaint, history, assessment, treatment (Rx),
transportation
✔✔Glasgow coma scale max score? - ✔✔15
✔✔Glasgow coma scale minimum score? - ✔✔3
✔✔Primary blast injury? - ✔✔Overpressure
✔✔Secondary blast injury? - ✔✔Shrapnel
✔✔Tertiary blast injury? - ✔✔Impact from being thrown
✔✔Quaternary blast injury? - ✔✔Burns, fumes
✔✔Quinary blast injury? - ✔✔CBRN contaminants
✔✔Trauma vitals - ✔✔GCS ≤13, Systolic BP <90 mmHg, Respiratory rate <10 or >29
bpm
✔✔DCAP-BLS-TIC - ✔✔Deformities
Contusions
Abrasions
Penetrations
Burns
Lacerations
Swelling
