EMT FISDAP Trauma Exam 2026/2027 NEWEST
VERIFIED QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
• What do you do if a wound is spurting blood? -✓✓ Apply direct pressure
• What are the early indicators of shock? -✓✓ Tachycardia, cool, pale and clammy skin
(diaphoretic)
• What is the difference between compensated and decompensated shock? -✓✓ The
biggest difference is a decrease in blood pressure
• What do you do with a patient that is critical after a MVA? -✓✓ Rapidly extricate and
transport them
• What medications are of concern when dealing with trauma patients? -✓✓ Blood
thinners (Eliquis, Warfarin, Coumadin)
• When should you remove an impaled object? -✓✓ Only if it is obstructing the airway or
prevents CPR, otherwise you stabilize it and leave it in
• How do you treat a patient with an impaled eye? -✓✓ Cover the good eye up first, then
the bad one
• How do you treat flail chest? -✓✓ Positive pressure ventilations and rapid transport
• What is the most important thing to note during impact injuries? -✓✓ The speed of the
object
• S&S for cardiac tamponade -✓✓ Muffled heart sounds, JVD, weak carotid pulse, no
peripheral pulse, clear breath sounds
• S/S of pneumothorax -✓✓ Unequal chest rise and fall, diminished breath sounds,
tracheal deviation (late sign)
• What is the treatment for a sucking chest wound? -✓✓ 3 sided occlusive
dressing/plastic wrap
• Organ quadrants and organs within them: -✓✓ RUQ: Liver
LUQ: Spleen
RLQ: Appendix
LLQ: Descending colon
Retroperitoneal: Kidneys
VERIFIED QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
• What do you do if a wound is spurting blood? -✓✓ Apply direct pressure
• What are the early indicators of shock? -✓✓ Tachycardia, cool, pale and clammy skin
(diaphoretic)
• What is the difference between compensated and decompensated shock? -✓✓ The
biggest difference is a decrease in blood pressure
• What do you do with a patient that is critical after a MVA? -✓✓ Rapidly extricate and
transport them
• What medications are of concern when dealing with trauma patients? -✓✓ Blood
thinners (Eliquis, Warfarin, Coumadin)
• When should you remove an impaled object? -✓✓ Only if it is obstructing the airway or
prevents CPR, otherwise you stabilize it and leave it in
• How do you treat a patient with an impaled eye? -✓✓ Cover the good eye up first, then
the bad one
• How do you treat flail chest? -✓✓ Positive pressure ventilations and rapid transport
• What is the most important thing to note during impact injuries? -✓✓ The speed of the
object
• S&S for cardiac tamponade -✓✓ Muffled heart sounds, JVD, weak carotid pulse, no
peripheral pulse, clear breath sounds
• S/S of pneumothorax -✓✓ Unequal chest rise and fall, diminished breath sounds,
tracheal deviation (late sign)
• What is the treatment for a sucking chest wound? -✓✓ 3 sided occlusive
dressing/plastic wrap
• Organ quadrants and organs within them: -✓✓ RUQ: Liver
LUQ: Spleen
RLQ: Appendix
LLQ: Descending colon
Retroperitoneal: Kidneys
