NREMT QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
Cervical Spine Accurate Answer - C1-C7 (Neck)
Thoracic Spine Accurate Answer - T1-T12 (Upper Back)
Lumbar Spine Accurate Answer - L1-L5 (Lower Back)
Sacral Spine Accurate Answer - S1-S5 (Back Wall of Pelvis)
Indication of adequate ventilations being delivered Accurate Answer -
Improved skin color and temperature
Anahalaxys Accurate Answer - Serious allergic reaction- feeling of
impending doom
Where does the upper airway end? Accurate Answer - Vocal Cords
What can be said about patients with COPD? Accurate Answer - They trap
air in their lungs and have more trouble breathing out than in
What is the band of smooth muscle that adjusts blood flow into each capillary?
Accurate Answer - Pre-capillary Sphincter
Malfeasance Accurate Answer - Intentionally doing something illegal, or
that you have no right to do.
Malpractice Accurate Answer - Treatment falls below the expected
standard.
If you are doing CPR, and someone brings the DNR, what do you do?
Accurate Answer - Continue CPR until medical direction gives you permission to
stop
Three P's of untreated hyperglycemia Accurate Answer - Polydipsia,
Polyuria, Polyphagia
, Critical burns? Accurate Answer - Full thickness- 10%, Partial thickness-
30%
Lobes in Lungs Accurate Answer - Right lung- 3, Left lung- 2
Inhalation Accurate Answer - Diaphragm contracts and flattens, increasing
the size of the internal chest cavity
Exhalation Accurate Answer - Diaphragm relaxes, decreasing the size of
the thoracic cavity
Ataxic breathing pattern Accurate Answer - Completely irregular breathing
pattern with irregular pauses, and unpredictable periods of apnea
Kussmaul breathing pattern Accurate Answer - Labored hyperventilations-
deep and rapid respiratory pattern
Cheyne-Stokes breathing pattern Accurate Answer - Tidal volume starts
low, and increadingly gets deeper, and then back to shallow
Biots breathing pattern Accurate Answer - Clusters of rapid ventilations
Palpable radial pulse Accurate Answer - Systolic at least 80 mmHg
Child OPA difference Accurate Answer - Inserted with no rotation
Gastric Distension from CPR Accurate Answer - Delivery of too much tidal
volume
Ectopic pregnancy Accurate Answer - Egg is placed somewhere, not the
uterus
Stacked counter shock Accurate Answer - Three shocks delivered in
succession with no pause for a pulse check
Quality Improvment Accurate Answer - EMT problem is identified, a plan
is conceived and implemented to reduce further occurrences.
Cervical Spine Accurate Answer - C1-C7 (Neck)
Thoracic Spine Accurate Answer - T1-T12 (Upper Back)
Lumbar Spine Accurate Answer - L1-L5 (Lower Back)
Sacral Spine Accurate Answer - S1-S5 (Back Wall of Pelvis)
Indication of adequate ventilations being delivered Accurate Answer -
Improved skin color and temperature
Anahalaxys Accurate Answer - Serious allergic reaction- feeling of
impending doom
Where does the upper airway end? Accurate Answer - Vocal Cords
What can be said about patients with COPD? Accurate Answer - They trap
air in their lungs and have more trouble breathing out than in
What is the band of smooth muscle that adjusts blood flow into each capillary?
Accurate Answer - Pre-capillary Sphincter
Malfeasance Accurate Answer - Intentionally doing something illegal, or
that you have no right to do.
Malpractice Accurate Answer - Treatment falls below the expected
standard.
If you are doing CPR, and someone brings the DNR, what do you do?
Accurate Answer - Continue CPR until medical direction gives you permission to
stop
Three P's of untreated hyperglycemia Accurate Answer - Polydipsia,
Polyuria, Polyphagia
, Critical burns? Accurate Answer - Full thickness- 10%, Partial thickness-
30%
Lobes in Lungs Accurate Answer - Right lung- 3, Left lung- 2
Inhalation Accurate Answer - Diaphragm contracts and flattens, increasing
the size of the internal chest cavity
Exhalation Accurate Answer - Diaphragm relaxes, decreasing the size of
the thoracic cavity
Ataxic breathing pattern Accurate Answer - Completely irregular breathing
pattern with irregular pauses, and unpredictable periods of apnea
Kussmaul breathing pattern Accurate Answer - Labored hyperventilations-
deep and rapid respiratory pattern
Cheyne-Stokes breathing pattern Accurate Answer - Tidal volume starts
low, and increadingly gets deeper, and then back to shallow
Biots breathing pattern Accurate Answer - Clusters of rapid ventilations
Palpable radial pulse Accurate Answer - Systolic at least 80 mmHg
Child OPA difference Accurate Answer - Inserted with no rotation
Gastric Distension from CPR Accurate Answer - Delivery of too much tidal
volume
Ectopic pregnancy Accurate Answer - Egg is placed somewhere, not the
uterus
Stacked counter shock Accurate Answer - Three shocks delivered in
succession with no pause for a pulse check
Quality Improvment Accurate Answer - EMT problem is identified, a plan
is conceived and implemented to reduce further occurrences.
