Students- paramedic exam practice
questions
____ pleura covers the lungs.
A.) Visceral.
B.) Parietal.
C.) Pulmonary
D.) Respiratory. - Correct Answer A.) Visceral.
he lungs are covered ny connective tissue called pleura. It has two layers: The visceral pleura (covers the lungs) and
the parietal pleura (lines the inner chest wall).
"adult onset diabetes", produces some insulin, but the body cannot effectively utilize that insulin. - Correct Answer
Type 2 diabetes
"Juvenile diabetes, is when the patient does not produce insulin at all, usually occurs at a young age. - Correct
Answer Type 1 diabetes
(located in the heart) stimulates heart, dilates bronchioles, dilates blood vessels in skeletal muscle/brain/heart, aids in
breakdown of glycogen into glucose - Correct Answer Beta 1 Receptors
**ON THE TEST**
3 blast injuries - Correct Answer - Primary: blast itself
- Secondary: shrapnel
- Tertiary: body against something
**ON THE TEST**
5 y/o pt overdose on beta blocker drug, what can you expect? - Correct Answer Bradycardia
**ON THE TEST**
A 72 year old male reports difficulty breathing after walking up a flight of stairs. He is sitting upright and leaning
forward with his hands on his knees. He reports a 40 year smoking history and his vital signs are respirations of 34
through pursed lips, pulse is 116 and blood pressure 158/96. You hear diffuse wheezing in his lungs. You suspect:
A. Anaphylaxis
B. Emphysema
C. Airway obstruction
D. Pulmonary embolism - Correct Answer B. Emphysema
**ON THE TEST**
A condition marked by right-sided heart failure due to long-term high blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries and
right ventricle is known as which of the following?
A. Cor pulmonale.
B. Ascites.
C. Myocardial hypertrophy.
D. JVT. - Correct Answer A. Cor pulmonale.
**ON THE TEST**
A diver that develops nitrogen narcosis will display what kind of symptoms? - Correct Answer Altered mental status
and impaired judgement
**ON THE TEST**
,A male patient has substernal chest pain for the last 30 minutes. He is pale, moist, and has clear lung sounds. His BP
is 70/40 and there is ST elevation in lead 3. What do you suspect? - Correct Answer Cardiogenic shock
**ON THE TEST**
Alpha 1 Effects - Correct Answer peripheral vasoconstriction
bronchoconstriction
increases preload and afterload
increases BP
**ON THE TEST**
Beta 1 Effects - Correct Answer (Heart)
Increase force of contraction
Increase heart rate
Increase conductivity
**ON THE TEST**
Beta 2 Effects - Correct Answer (LUNGS)
Bronchodilation
**ON THE TEST**
Blast Injuries from displacement of victim by the blast wind
— Blunt/penetrating trauma, fractures, and traumatic amputations - Correct Answer Tertiary Blast injury
**ON THE TEST**
Blast Injury from over-pressurization force (blast wave) impacting the body surface — TM rupture, pulmonary damage
and air embolization, hollow viscus injury - Correct Answer Primary blast injury
**ON THE TEST**
Blast Injury from projectiles (bomb fragments, flying debris) — Penetrating trauma, fragmentation injuries, blunt
trauma - Correct Answer Secondary blast injury
**ON THE TEST**
Calcium Channel Blockers have a ___ dromotropic effect - Correct Answer Negative
**ON THE TEST**
disorder of muscle movement and tone...
is a congenital disease - Correct Answer Cerebral Palsy
**ON THE TEST**
Drugs that are used to:
1. lower blood pressure.
2. Reduce conductivity and contractility of the heart
3. Dilates the arteries.
4. reduces demand for oxygen
5. can cause bradycardia and peripheral edema - Correct Answer Calcium channel blockers
,**ON THE TEST**
Female patient was at the gym and has sudden pleuritic chest pain and is short of breath, has cough that is
nonproductive, you should suspect? - Correct Answer PULMONARY EMBOLISM
**ON THE TEST**
If you push or palpate on the right and it hurts the pt on the left it is? - Correct Answer Appendicitis
**ON THE TEST**
Injuring a person's character or reputation through malevolent spoken words is known as what?
A.Libel
B.Slander
C.Negligence
D.Assault - Correct Answer B.Slander
**ON THE TEST**
Injuring a person's character or reputation through writting is known as what?
A.Libel
B.Slander
C.Negligence
D.Assault - Correct Answer A.Libel
**ON THE TEST**
Left-Sided Heart Failure - Correct Answer (LUNGS)
Pulmonary edema
**ON THE TEST**
Minute Volume is calucated by - Correct Answer - RR x Tidal volume
**ON THE TEST**
Neurotransmitter widely distributed in body tissues, with the primary function of mediating the synaptic activity of the
nervous system - Correct Answer ACETYLCHOLINE
**ON THE TEST**
Patient has deep productive cough with yellow‐brown sputum, complaining of fever and chills, has weakness and
malaise, what should you suspect? - Correct Answer PNEUMONIA
**ON THE TEST**
Potentiation - Correct Answer -enhancement of the effect of one drug by another drug
**ON THE TEST**
Right Sided Heart Failure - Correct Answer Pedal Edema
(Hypotension)
Will eventually turn into left-sided heart failure
**ON THE TEST**
Seizure characterized by an aura and focal findings lasting about 1‐2 minutes this is? - Correct Answer Complex
partial seizure
, **ON THE TEST**
Signs of peritonitits - Correct Answer rigidity and involuntary guarding
**ON THE TEST**
Small, bulging sacs or pouches in the inner lining of the intestines that become inflamed or infected. - Correct Answer
Diverticulosis
**ON THE TEST**
Sodium Channel Blockers - Correct Answer Negative Dromotropic effect
**ON THE TEST**
T-wave inversion - Correct Answer - Ischemia
- Normal in aVR
**ON THE TEST**
Types of advance directives in which pt can express his/her wishes regarding end of life care - Correct Answer -
Living will
- Healthcare POA
**ON THE TEST**
Ventalation/Perfusion mismatch - Correct Answer ANSWER IS PULMONARY EMBOLISM
**ON THE TEST**
What do anti-diuretics do? - Correct Answer Stimulate water retention in the kidneys
**ON THE TEST**
What drug blocks the parasympathetic nervous system? - Correct Answer Atropine
**ON THE TEST**
What is the most reliable methods of monitoring ET tube placement? - Correct Answer ETCO2 and capnography
**ON THE TEST**
What makes a person a candidate for a nasal intubation? - Correct Answer cardiac arrest with failed attempts at
intubation
**ON THE TEST**
What type of effect does Atropine have? - Correct Answer Positive chronotropic
**ON THE TEST**
When assessing a patient, you notice that the patient has difficulties breathing, they are sweating excessively,
coughing up blood, orthopnea, pink frothy sputum, and appear to have signs of anxiety. Which of the following
conditions is present in the patient?
A. Pneumonia
B. Shock
C. Asthma attack
D. Pulmonary edema - Correct Answer D. Pulmonary edema
**ON THE TEST**
questions
____ pleura covers the lungs.
A.) Visceral.
B.) Parietal.
C.) Pulmonary
D.) Respiratory. - Correct Answer A.) Visceral.
he lungs are covered ny connective tissue called pleura. It has two layers: The visceral pleura (covers the lungs) and
the parietal pleura (lines the inner chest wall).
"adult onset diabetes", produces some insulin, but the body cannot effectively utilize that insulin. - Correct Answer
Type 2 diabetes
"Juvenile diabetes, is when the patient does not produce insulin at all, usually occurs at a young age. - Correct
Answer Type 1 diabetes
(located in the heart) stimulates heart, dilates bronchioles, dilates blood vessels in skeletal muscle/brain/heart, aids in
breakdown of glycogen into glucose - Correct Answer Beta 1 Receptors
**ON THE TEST**
3 blast injuries - Correct Answer - Primary: blast itself
- Secondary: shrapnel
- Tertiary: body against something
**ON THE TEST**
5 y/o pt overdose on beta blocker drug, what can you expect? - Correct Answer Bradycardia
**ON THE TEST**
A 72 year old male reports difficulty breathing after walking up a flight of stairs. He is sitting upright and leaning
forward with his hands on his knees. He reports a 40 year smoking history and his vital signs are respirations of 34
through pursed lips, pulse is 116 and blood pressure 158/96. You hear diffuse wheezing in his lungs. You suspect:
A. Anaphylaxis
B. Emphysema
C. Airway obstruction
D. Pulmonary embolism - Correct Answer B. Emphysema
**ON THE TEST**
A condition marked by right-sided heart failure due to long-term high blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries and
right ventricle is known as which of the following?
A. Cor pulmonale.
B. Ascites.
C. Myocardial hypertrophy.
D. JVT. - Correct Answer A. Cor pulmonale.
**ON THE TEST**
A diver that develops nitrogen narcosis will display what kind of symptoms? - Correct Answer Altered mental status
and impaired judgement
**ON THE TEST**
,A male patient has substernal chest pain for the last 30 minutes. He is pale, moist, and has clear lung sounds. His BP
is 70/40 and there is ST elevation in lead 3. What do you suspect? - Correct Answer Cardiogenic shock
**ON THE TEST**
Alpha 1 Effects - Correct Answer peripheral vasoconstriction
bronchoconstriction
increases preload and afterload
increases BP
**ON THE TEST**
Beta 1 Effects - Correct Answer (Heart)
Increase force of contraction
Increase heart rate
Increase conductivity
**ON THE TEST**
Beta 2 Effects - Correct Answer (LUNGS)
Bronchodilation
**ON THE TEST**
Blast Injuries from displacement of victim by the blast wind
— Blunt/penetrating trauma, fractures, and traumatic amputations - Correct Answer Tertiary Blast injury
**ON THE TEST**
Blast Injury from over-pressurization force (blast wave) impacting the body surface — TM rupture, pulmonary damage
and air embolization, hollow viscus injury - Correct Answer Primary blast injury
**ON THE TEST**
Blast Injury from projectiles (bomb fragments, flying debris) — Penetrating trauma, fragmentation injuries, blunt
trauma - Correct Answer Secondary blast injury
**ON THE TEST**
Calcium Channel Blockers have a ___ dromotropic effect - Correct Answer Negative
**ON THE TEST**
disorder of muscle movement and tone...
is a congenital disease - Correct Answer Cerebral Palsy
**ON THE TEST**
Drugs that are used to:
1. lower blood pressure.
2. Reduce conductivity and contractility of the heart
3. Dilates the arteries.
4. reduces demand for oxygen
5. can cause bradycardia and peripheral edema - Correct Answer Calcium channel blockers
,**ON THE TEST**
Female patient was at the gym and has sudden pleuritic chest pain and is short of breath, has cough that is
nonproductive, you should suspect? - Correct Answer PULMONARY EMBOLISM
**ON THE TEST**
If you push or palpate on the right and it hurts the pt on the left it is? - Correct Answer Appendicitis
**ON THE TEST**
Injuring a person's character or reputation through malevolent spoken words is known as what?
A.Libel
B.Slander
C.Negligence
D.Assault - Correct Answer B.Slander
**ON THE TEST**
Injuring a person's character or reputation through writting is known as what?
A.Libel
B.Slander
C.Negligence
D.Assault - Correct Answer A.Libel
**ON THE TEST**
Left-Sided Heart Failure - Correct Answer (LUNGS)
Pulmonary edema
**ON THE TEST**
Minute Volume is calucated by - Correct Answer - RR x Tidal volume
**ON THE TEST**
Neurotransmitter widely distributed in body tissues, with the primary function of mediating the synaptic activity of the
nervous system - Correct Answer ACETYLCHOLINE
**ON THE TEST**
Patient has deep productive cough with yellow‐brown sputum, complaining of fever and chills, has weakness and
malaise, what should you suspect? - Correct Answer PNEUMONIA
**ON THE TEST**
Potentiation - Correct Answer -enhancement of the effect of one drug by another drug
**ON THE TEST**
Right Sided Heart Failure - Correct Answer Pedal Edema
(Hypotension)
Will eventually turn into left-sided heart failure
**ON THE TEST**
Seizure characterized by an aura and focal findings lasting about 1‐2 minutes this is? - Correct Answer Complex
partial seizure
, **ON THE TEST**
Signs of peritonitits - Correct Answer rigidity and involuntary guarding
**ON THE TEST**
Small, bulging sacs or pouches in the inner lining of the intestines that become inflamed or infected. - Correct Answer
Diverticulosis
**ON THE TEST**
Sodium Channel Blockers - Correct Answer Negative Dromotropic effect
**ON THE TEST**
T-wave inversion - Correct Answer - Ischemia
- Normal in aVR
**ON THE TEST**
Types of advance directives in which pt can express his/her wishes regarding end of life care - Correct Answer -
Living will
- Healthcare POA
**ON THE TEST**
Ventalation/Perfusion mismatch - Correct Answer ANSWER IS PULMONARY EMBOLISM
**ON THE TEST**
What do anti-diuretics do? - Correct Answer Stimulate water retention in the kidneys
**ON THE TEST**
What drug blocks the parasympathetic nervous system? - Correct Answer Atropine
**ON THE TEST**
What is the most reliable methods of monitoring ET tube placement? - Correct Answer ETCO2 and capnography
**ON THE TEST**
What makes a person a candidate for a nasal intubation? - Correct Answer cardiac arrest with failed attempts at
intubation
**ON THE TEST**
What type of effect does Atropine have? - Correct Answer Positive chronotropic
**ON THE TEST**
When assessing a patient, you notice that the patient has difficulties breathing, they are sweating excessively,
coughing up blood, orthopnea, pink frothy sputum, and appear to have signs of anxiety. Which of the following
conditions is present in the patient?
A. Pneumonia
B. Shock
C. Asthma attack
D. Pulmonary edema - Correct Answer D. Pulmonary edema
**ON THE TEST**
