EMS 1055 Exam #1 Questions with correct answers
Signs of shock - ✔✔Pale, cool, diaphoresis, cyanosis
Symptoms of shock - ✔✔Anxiety, nervousness, dizziness, weakness, nausea and
vomiting (dependent on type)
Different types of shock - ✔✔Cardiogenic, hypovolemic, distributive (septic, toxic,
anaphylactic, neurogenic, endocrinologic, toxic), obstructive, insulin,
hyperglycemic
Beck's triad - ✔✔Acute cardiac tamponade: muffled heart sounds, distended neck
veins (JVD), hypotension
Cushing's triad - ✔✔Increased ICP/cerebral hemorrhage:
hypertension, bradycardia, widening pulse pressure
Waddell's - ✔✔Associated with high velocity vehicle accidents involving children:
femur fracture, intraabdominal/intrathoracic injury, head injury
Common diseases of geriatric patients - ✔✔Diabetes, arthritis, kidney/bladder
problems, dementia, parkinson's disease, lung disease, osteoporosis, depression,
cardiovascular disease, alzheimer's disease
Signs and symptoms of a basilar skull fracture - ✔✔Signs: raccoon eyes, positive
HALO test, injury (trauma) to the side of the head
Symptoms: pain, head injury, headache
,Two rhythms that an AED will "shock" - ✔✔Cardiac arrhythmias: ventricular
tachycardia (v-tach) and ventricular fibrilation (v-fib)
How many weeks for a viable neonate? - ✔✔23 weeks
Two types of posturing and what do they indicate - ✔✔Decorticate: at the "core";
arms point up = high brain injury
Decerebrate: the arms point down = low brain injury
Cardiac output formula - ✔✔CO = HR x SV
Normal: 5L / min
Stroke volume is made up of preload, contractility, and afterload
Hematochezia - ✔✔Fresh, bright red blood in the stool, indicates bleeding on the
lower end of the digestive tract
Melena - ✔✔Black stool, blood digested in the stool, indicates GI hemorrhage has
taken place in the beginning to middle of the digestive system; most likely
stomach or duodenum
AMI presentation in men - ✔✔Pressure/tightness in the chest, pain in the chest,
back, jaw, and other areas of the body that lasts for more than a few minutes or
that goes away and comes back; shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, vomiting,
anxiety, cough, dizziness, tachycardia
, AMI presentation in women - ✔✔Shortness of breath, jaw pain, upper back pain,
lightheadedness, nausea, vomiting, flu-like symptoms
Diabetes - ✔✔No pain due to neuropathy
Treatment of impaled objects* - ✔✔Stabilize
Signs of anaphylaxis and indications for use of epipen - ✔✔SOB, uritcaria (hives),
swollen tongue, skin is pale, cool and diaphoretic
Symptoms of anaphylaxis and indications for use of epipen - ✔✔Nausea,
confusion, fatigue/weakness, abdominal pain
What makes the most ATP in cellular respiration and how does it shut down? -
✔✔Oxidative phosphorylation, without oxygen it will shut down
Babinski reflex in adults and infants (stimulating sole of foot) - ✔✔Adult:
norma/positive response is toes flex and close together, abnormal is when they
flare out (indicates CNS injury)
Infants: normal/positive is when they flare out (opposite to what would be
normal in adults)
Glottic edema in the adult and pediatric patient - ✔✔Adults: increased resistance
due to edema increasing the wall thickness by 1 mm (occludes airway by 25%)
Children: increased resistance due to edema increasing wall thickness by 1 mm
(occludes 50%); children have additional resistance due to narrow lumen
Signs of shock - ✔✔Pale, cool, diaphoresis, cyanosis
Symptoms of shock - ✔✔Anxiety, nervousness, dizziness, weakness, nausea and
vomiting (dependent on type)
Different types of shock - ✔✔Cardiogenic, hypovolemic, distributive (septic, toxic,
anaphylactic, neurogenic, endocrinologic, toxic), obstructive, insulin,
hyperglycemic
Beck's triad - ✔✔Acute cardiac tamponade: muffled heart sounds, distended neck
veins (JVD), hypotension
Cushing's triad - ✔✔Increased ICP/cerebral hemorrhage:
hypertension, bradycardia, widening pulse pressure
Waddell's - ✔✔Associated with high velocity vehicle accidents involving children:
femur fracture, intraabdominal/intrathoracic injury, head injury
Common diseases of geriatric patients - ✔✔Diabetes, arthritis, kidney/bladder
problems, dementia, parkinson's disease, lung disease, osteoporosis, depression,
cardiovascular disease, alzheimer's disease
Signs and symptoms of a basilar skull fracture - ✔✔Signs: raccoon eyes, positive
HALO test, injury (trauma) to the side of the head
Symptoms: pain, head injury, headache
,Two rhythms that an AED will "shock" - ✔✔Cardiac arrhythmias: ventricular
tachycardia (v-tach) and ventricular fibrilation (v-fib)
How many weeks for a viable neonate? - ✔✔23 weeks
Two types of posturing and what do they indicate - ✔✔Decorticate: at the "core";
arms point up = high brain injury
Decerebrate: the arms point down = low brain injury
Cardiac output formula - ✔✔CO = HR x SV
Normal: 5L / min
Stroke volume is made up of preload, contractility, and afterload
Hematochezia - ✔✔Fresh, bright red blood in the stool, indicates bleeding on the
lower end of the digestive tract
Melena - ✔✔Black stool, blood digested in the stool, indicates GI hemorrhage has
taken place in the beginning to middle of the digestive system; most likely
stomach or duodenum
AMI presentation in men - ✔✔Pressure/tightness in the chest, pain in the chest,
back, jaw, and other areas of the body that lasts for more than a few minutes or
that goes away and comes back; shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, vomiting,
anxiety, cough, dizziness, tachycardia
, AMI presentation in women - ✔✔Shortness of breath, jaw pain, upper back pain,
lightheadedness, nausea, vomiting, flu-like symptoms
Diabetes - ✔✔No pain due to neuropathy
Treatment of impaled objects* - ✔✔Stabilize
Signs of anaphylaxis and indications for use of epipen - ✔✔SOB, uritcaria (hives),
swollen tongue, skin is pale, cool and diaphoretic
Symptoms of anaphylaxis and indications for use of epipen - ✔✔Nausea,
confusion, fatigue/weakness, abdominal pain
What makes the most ATP in cellular respiration and how does it shut down? -
✔✔Oxidative phosphorylation, without oxygen it will shut down
Babinski reflex in adults and infants (stimulating sole of foot) - ✔✔Adult:
norma/positive response is toes flex and close together, abnormal is when they
flare out (indicates CNS injury)
Infants: normal/positive is when they flare out (opposite to what would be
normal in adults)
Glottic edema in the adult and pediatric patient - ✔✔Adults: increased resistance
due to edema increasing the wall thickness by 1 mm (occludes airway by 25%)
Children: increased resistance due to edema increasing wall thickness by 1 mm
(occludes 50%); children have additional resistance due to narrow lumen
