EMT Practice Test Questions and Answers
1.What is the rate of CPR in breaths and compressions
Answer 6 breaths and 110 compressions in a minute
2.What is considered tachycardic for an adult?
Answer heart rate more than 100
3.What is considered bradycardic for an adult?
Answer Heart rate less than 60
4.When is nitroglycerin not advised to be administered?
Answer if the systolic blood pressure is less than 100
5.Where does blood flow after it leaves the left ventricle?
Answer it flows to the aortic arch
6.What medication is Erectile Dysfunction medications a
contraindication?
Answer -
Nitroglycerin
7.What is the parasympathetic system responsible for?
Answer slowing the heart rate and intestinal activity
,8.What is the function of the carotid artery?
Answer it carries blood from the heart to the head
9.Are open ended or close ended questions better to ask?
Answer open ended questions; it avoids the yes/no answer
10.what delivers blood to the right atrium?
Answer the superior and inferior vena cava
11.What does diastolic blood pressure refer to?
Answer it refers to the pressure of the vessels during the relaxation
phase; bottom of the blood pressure
12.What is TIA
Answer transient ischemic attack; this is where vessels in the brain
are blocked for a few minutes
13.When do you change roles during CPR?
Answer every two minutes
14.What is another name for a heart attack?
Answer acute myocardial infarction
15.What does nitroglycerin do?
,Answer nitroglycerin dilates the vessels to reduce the hearts preload
16.When cells are deprived of oxygen and die they are called?
Answer infarcted cells
17.What type of heart attack is extremely common in
elderly?
Answer silent heart attack
18.What is arteriosclerosis?
Answer thickening of arterial walls
19.What is pericardial tamponade?
Answer the heart is impeded by fluid in the pericardium
20.What happens when someone has a pericardial
tamponade?
Answer low blood pressure; muffled heart sound; weak pulse due to
the hearts struggles to pump
21.If a patient is unresponsive with a pulse you
Answer 2 quick rescue breaths then breaths 10-12 every minute
22.what does a sphygmonometer measure?
Answer it measures blood pressure
, 23.what is a normal systolic blood pressure for a child?
Answer 80-110
24.what are three things to check if suspicious of a stroke?
Answer speech, facial droop, arm drift
25.what are the actions of nitroglycerin
Answer smooth muscle relaxation, reduces cardiac workload,
dilates coronary arteries, and dilates systemic arteries
26.what happens if a patient has preeclampsia?
Answer hypertensive; extremely high blood pressure and swelling in
extremeties; susceptible to seizures
27.what is an ischemic stroke?
Answer blood flow being cut off from part of the brain
28.what is the normal heart rate for a child
Answer 70-110 beats per minute
29.what ratio should 2 person cpr on a child be done at?
Answer 15
Answer2
30.what is the correct treatment for someone undergoing
aphyxial cardiac arrest?
Answer 5 cycles of CPR prior to retrieving the AED or emergency
response system
1.What is the rate of CPR in breaths and compressions
Answer 6 breaths and 110 compressions in a minute
2.What is considered tachycardic for an adult?
Answer heart rate more than 100
3.What is considered bradycardic for an adult?
Answer Heart rate less than 60
4.When is nitroglycerin not advised to be administered?
Answer if the systolic blood pressure is less than 100
5.Where does blood flow after it leaves the left ventricle?
Answer it flows to the aortic arch
6.What medication is Erectile Dysfunction medications a
contraindication?
Answer -
Nitroglycerin
7.What is the parasympathetic system responsible for?
Answer slowing the heart rate and intestinal activity
,8.What is the function of the carotid artery?
Answer it carries blood from the heart to the head
9.Are open ended or close ended questions better to ask?
Answer open ended questions; it avoids the yes/no answer
10.what delivers blood to the right atrium?
Answer the superior and inferior vena cava
11.What does diastolic blood pressure refer to?
Answer it refers to the pressure of the vessels during the relaxation
phase; bottom of the blood pressure
12.What is TIA
Answer transient ischemic attack; this is where vessels in the brain
are blocked for a few minutes
13.When do you change roles during CPR?
Answer every two minutes
14.What is another name for a heart attack?
Answer acute myocardial infarction
15.What does nitroglycerin do?
,Answer nitroglycerin dilates the vessels to reduce the hearts preload
16.When cells are deprived of oxygen and die they are called?
Answer infarcted cells
17.What type of heart attack is extremely common in
elderly?
Answer silent heart attack
18.What is arteriosclerosis?
Answer thickening of arterial walls
19.What is pericardial tamponade?
Answer the heart is impeded by fluid in the pericardium
20.What happens when someone has a pericardial
tamponade?
Answer low blood pressure; muffled heart sound; weak pulse due to
the hearts struggles to pump
21.If a patient is unresponsive with a pulse you
Answer 2 quick rescue breaths then breaths 10-12 every minute
22.what does a sphygmonometer measure?
Answer it measures blood pressure
, 23.what is a normal systolic blood pressure for a child?
Answer 80-110
24.what are three things to check if suspicious of a stroke?
Answer speech, facial droop, arm drift
25.what are the actions of nitroglycerin
Answer smooth muscle relaxation, reduces cardiac workload,
dilates coronary arteries, and dilates systemic arteries
26.what happens if a patient has preeclampsia?
Answer hypertensive; extremely high blood pressure and swelling in
extremeties; susceptible to seizures
27.what is an ischemic stroke?
Answer blood flow being cut off from part of the brain
28.what is the normal heart rate for a child
Answer 70-110 beats per minute
29.what ratio should 2 person cpr on a child be done at?
Answer 15
Answer2
30.what is the correct treatment for someone undergoing
aphyxial cardiac arrest?
Answer 5 cycles of CPR prior to retrieving the AED or emergency
response system
