Paramedic FISDAP Final Exam REVIEW 2026/2027
MOST RECENT QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
• what changes in blood gases occur when a patient is hyperventilating? -✓✓ decreased
CO2; increased PaO2
• what is the primary danger to the infant during a precipitous delivery? -✓✓ Cerebral
Trauma
• Preload -✓✓ stretching prior to contraction
• Afterload -✓✓ resistance ventricle of the heart has to overcome to eject blood
• Chronotropy -✓✓ heart rate
• inotropy -✓✓ how hard the heart contracts
• isotropy -✓✓
• automaticity -✓✓ cells ability to spontaneously depolarize
• atherosclerosis -✓✓ gradual blockage of an artery by cholesterol and hardened
deposits
• syncope -✓✓
• which vessel provides blood supply to the SA and AV nodes in most patients? -✓✓
right coronary artery
• Impulses that originate in both the atria and ventricles simultaneously, meeting
somewhere in the heart, create a strange appearing complex. What is that complex
known as? -✓✓ Fusion beat
• ectopic beat -✓✓ a heartbeat occurring outside the normal rhythm
• what are the most common causes of premature atrial contractions? -✓✓ Stimulants
such as caffeine or tobacco
• electrical axis of the heart -✓✓ mean direction of the action potentials traveling through
the ventricles
MOST RECENT QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
• what changes in blood gases occur when a patient is hyperventilating? -✓✓ decreased
CO2; increased PaO2
• what is the primary danger to the infant during a precipitous delivery? -✓✓ Cerebral
Trauma
• Preload -✓✓ stretching prior to contraction
• Afterload -✓✓ resistance ventricle of the heart has to overcome to eject blood
• Chronotropy -✓✓ heart rate
• inotropy -✓✓ how hard the heart contracts
• isotropy -✓✓
• automaticity -✓✓ cells ability to spontaneously depolarize
• atherosclerosis -✓✓ gradual blockage of an artery by cholesterol and hardened
deposits
• syncope -✓✓
• which vessel provides blood supply to the SA and AV nodes in most patients? -✓✓
right coronary artery
• Impulses that originate in both the atria and ventricles simultaneously, meeting
somewhere in the heart, create a strange appearing complex. What is that complex
known as? -✓✓ Fusion beat
• ectopic beat -✓✓ a heartbeat occurring outside the normal rhythm
• what are the most common causes of premature atrial contractions? -✓✓ Stimulants
such as caffeine or tobacco
• electrical axis of the heart -✓✓ mean direction of the action potentials traveling through
the ventricles