2026 PARAMEDIC FISDAP LATEST STUDY EXAM
GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the function of chemoreceptors? - ✔✔Determine pH of the blood
✔✔Assessment of a patient with respiratory distress reveals that expiration is 4 times
longer than inspiration. What should you suspect? - ✔✔Bronchospasm
✔✔A 30 year old female was choking. When you arrive, she asks for your help. What
should you do? - ✔✔Encourage her to cough
✔✔An unresponsive 26 year old female is slumped over her steering wheel in a parking
lot. There are used needles and empty beer bottles in the front seat. Vital signs are P
130, R 6 and snoring. What should you do? - ✔✔Manually open the airway
✔✔A ventilator dependent patient's SpO2 level decreases from 94% to 80%. You hear
coarse, wet sounds coming from the ET tube. What should you do? - ✔✔Perform deep
tracheal suctioning
✔✔Where does the stimulus to breathe come from? - ✔✔Brainstem
, ✔✔A 22 year old female is apneic. You have been attempting to place the ET tube for
the past 30 seconds without success. Vital signs are P 46, SpO2 67%. What should you
do? - ✔✔Stop and assist ventilations with a BVM
✔✔A 72 year old male complains of sudden onset of pain in his upper right chest. He
states he recently had hernia surgery. Vital signs are BP 140/80, P 102, R 26. What is
the most likely cause? - ✔✔Pulmonary Embolism
✔✔A 68 year old female is supine in bed and responds only to painful stimuli. Vital
signs are BP 108/64, P 52, R 6 and shallow, SpO2 78%. What should you do? -
✔✔Assist ventilations with aa bag-valve mask
✔✔What is the name of the smooth, moist epithelial layer that covers the lungs? -
✔✔Visceral pleura
✔✔After attempting ventilations of both ports of a dual lumen airway device, you are
unable to see chest rise and fall. What should you do? - ✔✔Remove the device and re-
oxygenate
✔✔The air that we exhale contains approximately how much oxygen? - ✔✔16%
✔✔An unresponsive patient has a tracheostomy tube. How should you assist
ventilations? - ✔✔Use an adult BVM with a pediatric mask and ventilate through the
stoma
✔✔An adult patient was short of breath with a productive cough with yellowish-green
secretions. He is now apneic and lung compliance is poor after endotracheal intubation.
What should you do? - ✔✔Perform tracheal suctioning
✔✔What is the correct dosage of ipratropium bromide during an asthma attack? -
✔✔0.5 mg, by nebulizer
✔✔What is alveolar collapse known as? - ✔✔Atelectasis
✔✔A 45 year old female awoke in the middle of the night. She complains of breathing
difficulties. Her medications are HCTZ, digoxin and Coumadin. Vitals are BP 180/104, P
102 and irregular, R 28 with bilateral crackles. What is the most likely cause? -
✔✔Pulmonary Edema
✔✔You administered a short acting paralytic and are unable to successfully intubate the
patient after two attempts. Vital signs are P 50, SpO2 86%. What should you do? -
✔✔Insert an oral airway and ventilate with a BVM
GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the function of chemoreceptors? - ✔✔Determine pH of the blood
✔✔Assessment of a patient with respiratory distress reveals that expiration is 4 times
longer than inspiration. What should you suspect? - ✔✔Bronchospasm
✔✔A 30 year old female was choking. When you arrive, she asks for your help. What
should you do? - ✔✔Encourage her to cough
✔✔An unresponsive 26 year old female is slumped over her steering wheel in a parking
lot. There are used needles and empty beer bottles in the front seat. Vital signs are P
130, R 6 and snoring. What should you do? - ✔✔Manually open the airway
✔✔A ventilator dependent patient's SpO2 level decreases from 94% to 80%. You hear
coarse, wet sounds coming from the ET tube. What should you do? - ✔✔Perform deep
tracheal suctioning
✔✔Where does the stimulus to breathe come from? - ✔✔Brainstem
, ✔✔A 22 year old female is apneic. You have been attempting to place the ET tube for
the past 30 seconds without success. Vital signs are P 46, SpO2 67%. What should you
do? - ✔✔Stop and assist ventilations with a BVM
✔✔A 72 year old male complains of sudden onset of pain in his upper right chest. He
states he recently had hernia surgery. Vital signs are BP 140/80, P 102, R 26. What is
the most likely cause? - ✔✔Pulmonary Embolism
✔✔A 68 year old female is supine in bed and responds only to painful stimuli. Vital
signs are BP 108/64, P 52, R 6 and shallow, SpO2 78%. What should you do? -
✔✔Assist ventilations with aa bag-valve mask
✔✔What is the name of the smooth, moist epithelial layer that covers the lungs? -
✔✔Visceral pleura
✔✔After attempting ventilations of both ports of a dual lumen airway device, you are
unable to see chest rise and fall. What should you do? - ✔✔Remove the device and re-
oxygenate
✔✔The air that we exhale contains approximately how much oxygen? - ✔✔16%
✔✔An unresponsive patient has a tracheostomy tube. How should you assist
ventilations? - ✔✔Use an adult BVM with a pediatric mask and ventilate through the
stoma
✔✔An adult patient was short of breath with a productive cough with yellowish-green
secretions. He is now apneic and lung compliance is poor after endotracheal intubation.
What should you do? - ✔✔Perform tracheal suctioning
✔✔What is the correct dosage of ipratropium bromide during an asthma attack? -
✔✔0.5 mg, by nebulizer
✔✔What is alveolar collapse known as? - ✔✔Atelectasis
✔✔A 45 year old female awoke in the middle of the night. She complains of breathing
difficulties. Her medications are HCTZ, digoxin and Coumadin. Vitals are BP 180/104, P
102 and irregular, R 28 with bilateral crackles. What is the most likely cause? -
✔✔Pulmonary Edema
✔✔You administered a short acting paralytic and are unable to successfully intubate the
patient after two attempts. Vital signs are P 50, SpO2 86%. What should you do? -
✔✔Insert an oral airway and ventilate with a BVM
