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JB LEARNING: EMT CHAPTER 09: PATIENT ASSESSMENT EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ accessory muscles Correct Answer: The secondary muscles of respiration. They include the neck muscles (sternocleidomastoids), the chest pectoralis major muscles, and the abdominal muscles. altered mental status Correct Answer: Any deviation from alert and oriented to person, place, time, and event, or any deviation from a patient's normal baseline mental status. Au...

JB LEARNING EMT EXAM PART 2 | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ Your actions at the scene of a critically injured patient who was shot during a robbery should include: A: starting immediate care as you would with any other patient. B: performing a primary assessment only. C: caring for the patient while manipulating the scene minimally. D: providing care when the police authorize you to. Correct Answer: the correct answer is C After an advanced airway devic...

JB LEARNING EMT CH 4 EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ base station Correct Answer: Radio hardware containing a transmitter and receiver that is located in a fixed place cellular telephone Correct Answer: Low power portable radio that communicates through an interconnected series of repeater stations called "cells" channel Correct Answer: An assigned frequency or frequencies that are used to carry voice and/or data communications close-ended que...

JB TEST PREP EMT | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ All of the following would cause an increased level of carbon dioxide in the arterial blood, EXCEPT: A: short exhalation phase. B: reduced tidal volume. C: slow, shallow breathing. D: deep, rapid breathing. Correct Answer: D A woman presents with acute shortness of breath. Her breathing appears labored and her skin is pale. You should: A: deliver humidified oxygen and administer an inhaled bronchodilat...

JB LEARNING AIRWAY TEST PREP EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ An unresponsive trauma patient has sonorous respirations and blood draining from the corning of his mouth. What should you do? Correct Answer: Perform a jaw-thrust maneuver Which of the following statements regarding physiologic dead space is correct? Correct Answer: Diffuse alveolar collapse increases the size of the physiologic dead space Hemoglobin from which oxygen has been released ...

JB LEARNING: EMT CHAPTER 11: PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ Absorption Correct Answer: The process by which nutrient molecules pass through the wall of the digestive system into the blood Action Correct Answer: The therapeutic effect of a medication on the body. Activated Charcoal Correct Answer: An oral medication that binds and adsorbs ingested toxins in the gastrointestinal tract for treatment of some poisonings a...

JB LEARNING: EMT CHAPTER 12: SHOCK EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ Afterload Correct Answer: The force or resistance against which the heart pumps. Aaphylactic Shock Correct Answer: Severe shock caused by an allergic reaction. Anaphylaxis Correct Answer: An extreme, life-threatening systemic allergic reaction that may include shock and respiratory failure. 2 Aneurysm Correct Answer: A swelling or enlargement of a part of an artery, resulting fro...

JB LEARNING EMT CHAPTER 11 EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ The process by which medications travel through body tissues until they reach the bloodstream. Correct Answer: absorption An oral medication that binds and adsorbs ingested toxins in the gastrointestinal tract for treatment of some poisonings and medication overdoses. It is ground into a very fine powder that provides the greatest surface area for binding medications that have been taken ...

JB LEARNING: EMT FINAL EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ A 4-year-old, 15-kg male ingested an unknown quantity of acetaminophen (Tylenol). The child's mother states that she does not know when the ingestion occurred. The child is conscious and alert and in no apparent distress. The EMT should: Correct Answer: administer 15 g of activated charcoal. A patient who has experienced a back injury, with or without spinal cord damage, would be triaged with ...

JBLEARN EMT CH. 11 PHARMACOLOGY EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ 6 rights Correct Answer: drug, dose, route, time, patient, documentation Nitroglycerin form Correct Answer: tablet, spray (solution) Nitroglycerin dose Correct Answer: 0.4mg tablet/spray, Max: 3 doses w/in one episode (every 5 minutes) Nitroglycerin Route Correct Answer: sublingual 2 Nitroglycerin Indications Correct Answer: atraumatic chest pain Nitroglycerin Contraindications ...