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West Coast EMT Final Exam Study Guide
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Questions & Answers / West Coast EMT
2025/2026 Complete Exam Preparation
Material
Description:
This comprehensive study guide includes actual EMT
final exam questions and 100% verified answers
tailored for students at West Coast EMT. It covers
essential prehospital care topics such as respiratory
emergencies, cardiovascular conditions, trauma, shock
types, obstetrics, pediatric and geriatric
considerations, medications, and triage systems. A
highly detailed and complete preparation tool for final
exams and practical assessments.
Questions and Answers:
what is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD)? Answer:-A slow process of dilation and
disruption of the airways and alveoli caused by chronic
bronchial obstruction?
what is the most common form of COPD? -Answer:-
emphysema
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what is emphysema? -Answer:-a loss of the elastic
material in the lungs that occurs when the alveolar air
spaces are chronically stretched due to inflamed
airways and obstruction of airflow out of the lungs.
Signs and symptoms of COPD: -Answer:-Patients will
chronically produce sputum, have a chronic cough, and
difficulty expelling air from their lungs, with long
expiration phases and wheezing.
Also: crackles, rhonchi, wheezes, or may have severely
diminished breath sounds
ischemic heart disease -Answer:-a group of cardiac
disabilities resulting from an insufficient supply of
oxygenated blood to the heart
myocardial infarction (MI) -Answer:-heart attack;
death of myocardial tissue (infarction) caused by
ischemia (loss of blood flow) as a result of an occlusion
(plugging) of a coronary artery; usually caused by
atherosclerosis; symptoms include pain in the chest or
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upper body (shoulders, neck, and jaw), shortness of
breath, diaphoresis, and nausea
Angina -Answer:-a condition of episodes of severe
chest pain due to inadequate blood flow to the
myocardium
cardiogenic shock -Answer:-Shock caused by
inadequate function of the heart, or pump failure.
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) -Answer:-A heart
attack; death of heart muscle following obstruction of
blood flow to it. Acute in this context means "new" or
"happening right now."
Cardiogenic Hypoperfusion -Answer:-otherwise called
cardiogenic shock
When a child is struck by a car, the area of greatest
injury depends mostly on the: -Answer:-age of the
child and the size of the car that struck him
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radiation -Answer:-Energy that is radiated or
transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles.
Convection -Answer:-The transfer of heat by the
movement of a fluid
conduction -Answer:-The direct transfer of heat from
one substance to another substance that it is touching.
Evaporation -Answer:-The change of a substance from
a liquid to a gas
Atherosclerosis -Answer:-A disorder in which
cholesterol and calcium build up inside the walls of the
blood vessels, forming plaque, which eventually leads
to partial or complete blockage of blood flow.
arteriosclerosis -Answer:-a disease that causes the
arteries to thicken, harden, and calcify
West Coast EMT Final Exam Study Guide
/Verified
Questions & Answers / West Coast EMT
2025/2026 Complete Exam Preparation
Material
Description:
This comprehensive study guide includes actual EMT
final exam questions and 100% verified answers
tailored for students at West Coast EMT. It covers
essential prehospital care topics such as respiratory
emergencies, cardiovascular conditions, trauma, shock
types, obstetrics, pediatric and geriatric
considerations, medications, and triage systems. A
highly detailed and complete preparation tool for final
exams and practical assessments.
Questions and Answers:
what is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD)? Answer:-A slow process of dilation and
disruption of the airways and alveoli caused by chronic
bronchial obstruction?
what is the most common form of COPD? -Answer:-
emphysema
,West Coast
what is emphysema? -Answer:-a loss of the elastic
material in the lungs that occurs when the alveolar air
spaces are chronically stretched due to inflamed
airways and obstruction of airflow out of the lungs.
Signs and symptoms of COPD: -Answer:-Patients will
chronically produce sputum, have a chronic cough, and
difficulty expelling air from their lungs, with long
expiration phases and wheezing.
Also: crackles, rhonchi, wheezes, or may have severely
diminished breath sounds
ischemic heart disease -Answer:-a group of cardiac
disabilities resulting from an insufficient supply of
oxygenated blood to the heart
myocardial infarction (MI) -Answer:-heart attack;
death of myocardial tissue (infarction) caused by
ischemia (loss of blood flow) as a result of an occlusion
(plugging) of a coronary artery; usually caused by
atherosclerosis; symptoms include pain in the chest or
,West Coast
upper body (shoulders, neck, and jaw), shortness of
breath, diaphoresis, and nausea
Angina -Answer:-a condition of episodes of severe
chest pain due to inadequate blood flow to the
myocardium
cardiogenic shock -Answer:-Shock caused by
inadequate function of the heart, or pump failure.
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) -Answer:-A heart
attack; death of heart muscle following obstruction of
blood flow to it. Acute in this context means "new" or
"happening right now."
Cardiogenic Hypoperfusion -Answer:-otherwise called
cardiogenic shock
When a child is struck by a car, the area of greatest
injury depends mostly on the: -Answer:-age of the
child and the size of the car that struck him
, West Coast
radiation -Answer:-Energy that is radiated or
transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles.
Convection -Answer:-The transfer of heat by the
movement of a fluid
conduction -Answer:-The direct transfer of heat from
one substance to another substance that it is touching.
Evaporation -Answer:-The change of a substance from
a liquid to a gas
Atherosclerosis -Answer:-A disorder in which
cholesterol and calcium build up inside the walls of the
blood vessels, forming plaque, which eventually leads
to partial or complete blockage of blood flow.
arteriosclerosis -Answer:-a disease that causes the
arteries to thicken, harden, and calcify
