JB EMT Final Exam Questions and Answers Latest Updates

JB EMT Final Exam Questions and Answers Latest Updates If a patient has an arterial bleed between the meninges and the cranial bones....where is the bleed? - Epidural Chest pain may be absent in certain patients. - Geriatric/Diabetic What should the systolic BP be prior to administering Nitroglycerin? - 120 How many vertebrae are there? - 33 (7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, 4 coccygeal) Which pairs of ribs are most commonly fractured? - 4th-10th or 4th-9th ribs are most common, 1st &3rd are associated with high energy trauma What type of breathing is seen with a flail chest? - Paradoxical Breathing What happens when brain tissue is damaged? - Disability/Death Know all the arterial (pulse) areas. Where are they located? - Temporal: It is felt in the head. Carotid: It is felt in the neck. Branchial: It is felt in the elbow. Femoral: It is felt at the groin. Radial: It is felt on the wrist. Popliteal: It is felt on the knee. Dorsalis pedis: It is felt on the foot. Know all the burns and how they are identifiable. - 1st: Red Infamed 2nd: Blisters/ Extreme Pain 3rd: Charred/ Little to no pain Know the skin color, temperature, condition of hypoglycemia / hyperglycemia. Which one is insulin shock / diabetic coma? - Cool and clammy Hot and dry Insulin shock: Hypo Diabetic Coma: Hyper Which blood cells are responsible for O2 transport? To fight infection. To clot? - Red White Platelets What is electromechanical dissociation? - PEA- Pulseless Electrical Activity When can you give a patient oral glucose? - If they are able to swallow Below 60 mg/dL Signs of pre-eclampsia vs eclampsia - Headache, Swelling, Visual Disturbances Seizures What is the Good Samaritan law? Standard of care? Article 30? - Protecting regular people from a lawsuit Manner in which the Emt must act or behave Allows EMS to operate under medical cont Definition of COPD, Congestive Heart Failure, CVA, pericardial tamponade - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diasease - Lung Disease Heart Failure Stroke Fluid around the heart Know the Blood flow through the heart. - ior vena cava 2. right atrium 3. tricuspid valve 4. right ventricle 5. pulmonic valve 6. pulmonary artery - where unoxygenated blood is converted to oxygenated blood in the lungs 7. pulmonary vein 8. left atrium 9. mitral/bicuspid valve 10. left ventricle 11.. aortic valve 12. aorta- where oxygenated blood is taken to the body What is an example of a hinge joint? - The elbow and knee