NREMT AEMT PREP Questions with
Answers 2024
M.O.I.
✔ Mechanism of Injury, vehicles, falls etc.
what do you generally set oxygen to?
✔ 15L/M
How to open airway for a trauma victim?
✔ chin lift/jaw thrust
apneic
✔ not breathing
N.O.I
✔ nature of illness
AVPU
✔ Alert, verbal/vocal, pain, unconscious
skin CTC
✔ color,temperature, condition (normal is warm,pink and dry)
hypoperfusion
✔ Shock.... decreased delivery of oxygen and nutrients to cells)
OPQRST
✔ for conditions occuring right now (medical) Onset, Provocation, quality,radiation,
severity, time
Onset
✔ What were you doing when this happened? did it happen suddenly or gradually?
could ...... have caused this?
Provocation
✔ What makes your pain feel better or worse? does it hurt when you do .........?
quality
✔ How would you describe your pain? what does your pain feel like?
radiation
✔ Where does it hurt the most? is it staying in one spot? where was it when the pain
started
,severity
✔ on scale of 1 to 10 how bad is your pain?
time
✔ how long has it been since the pain started?
signs versus symptoms
✔ signs: something you see
symptoms: something they tell you
nitroglycerin
✔ vasodilation of coronary arteries
What is first priority after personal safety?
✔ patient care
brady (root)
✔ below normal, slow
tachy (root)
✔ above normal, rapid
tachypnea
✔ rapid breathing
plegia
✔ paralysis of the limbs quadraplegia (four limbs) quad=4
bilateral
✔ both sides
dorsal/ventral
✔ dorsal: back of body
ventral: front of body
palmar/plantar
✔ palmar: palm of the hand
plantar: sole of the foot
where to place stethescope for lung sounds?
✔ mid-clavicular lines
fowler position
✔ sitting up
,integumentary system
✔ forms protective barrier and aids in temperature regulation (skin, hair, nails and
sweat glands)
zygomatic
✔ bones that form the structure of the cheeks
proximate cause
✔ when what you did caused further harm.
why would you use an emergency move?
✔ scene is unsafe, you must get to other patients, care of life threatening injuries
requires repositioning
when to use a urgent move?
✔ when patients condition is declining: backboarding, removing from a car etc.
what side should you roll recovery position?
✔ left side
malleolus
✔ ankle bone
c1 and c2
✔ atlas and axis
How many total vertebrae?
✔ 33
portions of skull
✔ frontal, occipital, temporal, parietal (sides)
calcaneous
✔ heel bone
normal respiratory rate for children and infants
✔ c: 15-30 I: 25-50
two major bones of the pelvis
✔ ilium (superior and widest) and ischium
epiglottis
✔ structure that prevents foreign matter from entering the trachea
larynx
✔ voice box
, bronchi
✔ two large branches that come off the trachea
diaphragm
✔ muscular structure that divides the chest from the abdomen
ventalation vs respiration
✔ ventilation is moving gases between inhaled air and blood, respiration is the moving
of oxygen between blood and cells
what is the muscle of the heart?
✔ myocardium
what is the pacemaker of the heart
✔ sinoatrial node (SA node)
exceptions to the veins= oxygen poor and arteries= oxygen rich rule
✔ the pulmonary artery and pulmonary veins
liver
✔ produces bile, detoxifying
gallbladder
✔ stores bile from the liver
kidney
✔ filters blood and produces urine
ureters
✔ tubes connection kidney to the bladder
epididymis
✔ stores sperm
carpals
✔ wrist bones
patent airway=
✔ open airway
minute volume
✔ tidal volume*resiratory rate
hydrostatic pressure
✔ pushing of fluid out of the blood vessels
Answers 2024
M.O.I.
✔ Mechanism of Injury, vehicles, falls etc.
what do you generally set oxygen to?
✔ 15L/M
How to open airway for a trauma victim?
✔ chin lift/jaw thrust
apneic
✔ not breathing
N.O.I
✔ nature of illness
AVPU
✔ Alert, verbal/vocal, pain, unconscious
skin CTC
✔ color,temperature, condition (normal is warm,pink and dry)
hypoperfusion
✔ Shock.... decreased delivery of oxygen and nutrients to cells)
OPQRST
✔ for conditions occuring right now (medical) Onset, Provocation, quality,radiation,
severity, time
Onset
✔ What were you doing when this happened? did it happen suddenly or gradually?
could ...... have caused this?
Provocation
✔ What makes your pain feel better or worse? does it hurt when you do .........?
quality
✔ How would you describe your pain? what does your pain feel like?
radiation
✔ Where does it hurt the most? is it staying in one spot? where was it when the pain
started
,severity
✔ on scale of 1 to 10 how bad is your pain?
time
✔ how long has it been since the pain started?
signs versus symptoms
✔ signs: something you see
symptoms: something they tell you
nitroglycerin
✔ vasodilation of coronary arteries
What is first priority after personal safety?
✔ patient care
brady (root)
✔ below normal, slow
tachy (root)
✔ above normal, rapid
tachypnea
✔ rapid breathing
plegia
✔ paralysis of the limbs quadraplegia (four limbs) quad=4
bilateral
✔ both sides
dorsal/ventral
✔ dorsal: back of body
ventral: front of body
palmar/plantar
✔ palmar: palm of the hand
plantar: sole of the foot
where to place stethescope for lung sounds?
✔ mid-clavicular lines
fowler position
✔ sitting up
,integumentary system
✔ forms protective barrier and aids in temperature regulation (skin, hair, nails and
sweat glands)
zygomatic
✔ bones that form the structure of the cheeks
proximate cause
✔ when what you did caused further harm.
why would you use an emergency move?
✔ scene is unsafe, you must get to other patients, care of life threatening injuries
requires repositioning
when to use a urgent move?
✔ when patients condition is declining: backboarding, removing from a car etc.
what side should you roll recovery position?
✔ left side
malleolus
✔ ankle bone
c1 and c2
✔ atlas and axis
How many total vertebrae?
✔ 33
portions of skull
✔ frontal, occipital, temporal, parietal (sides)
calcaneous
✔ heel bone
normal respiratory rate for children and infants
✔ c: 15-30 I: 25-50
two major bones of the pelvis
✔ ilium (superior and widest) and ischium
epiglottis
✔ structure that prevents foreign matter from entering the trachea
larynx
✔ voice box
, bronchi
✔ two large branches that come off the trachea
diaphragm
✔ muscular structure that divides the chest from the abdomen
ventalation vs respiration
✔ ventilation is moving gases between inhaled air and blood, respiration is the moving
of oxygen between blood and cells
what is the muscle of the heart?
✔ myocardium
what is the pacemaker of the heart
✔ sinoatrial node (SA node)
exceptions to the veins= oxygen poor and arteries= oxygen rich rule
✔ the pulmonary artery and pulmonary veins
liver
✔ produces bile, detoxifying
gallbladder
✔ stores bile from the liver
kidney
✔ filters blood and produces urine
ureters
✔ tubes connection kidney to the bladder
epididymis
✔ stores sperm
carpals
✔ wrist bones
patent airway=
✔ open airway
minute volume
✔ tidal volume*resiratory rate
hydrostatic pressure
✔ pushing of fluid out of the blood vessels
