PAAM 2 Exam Questions With Correct And
Revised Answers
What is patient assessment? - answer✔✔Structured process of gathering info used to make a
diagnostic opinion.
What can you use to gain this info? - answer✔✔Observation, questioning, touch, auscultation,
sensory assessment
What should your priorities be based on? - answer✔✔Threats to life, potential threats to life,
limb and livelihood
What are the six basic concepts of Primary assessment? - answer✔✔General impression
Assess mental status
airway
Breathing
Circulation
Transport decision
Does c spine come before airway? - answer✔✔No
What does AVPU stand for? - answer✔✔Alert
Verbal
Pain
Unresponsive
What is the rapid glasgow scale look like - answer✔✔Awake 15
Verbal 11
Physical 7- Consider RSI
Unresponsive 3