Flight Paramedic 2025/2026 Exam
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What is diffusion? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Movement of molecules from high to
low concentration
Where does gas exchange occur? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔alveolar-capillary
membrane
4 Causes of poor diffusion at the alveolar-capillary membrane - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔1. Damage (Atelectasis)
2. Covered with fluid(Pneumonia/ARDS)
3. Insufficient inflation(hypoventilation/poor inspiratory maneuvers)
4. overstretched(High Pplat)
Why do we need to ventilate properly? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To regulate and
maintain appropriate amounts of CO2
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, Co2 regulation second by second - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Carbonic acid buffer
system
What mechanisms produce CO2? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Aerobic and anaerobic
metabolism
What mechanisms regulate CO2? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Being in an aerobic
state
2. Blood flow to lungs
3. Proper diffusion
4. appropriate minute ventilation
PaCO2 for hypoventilation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Above 45 mmHg
PaCO2 for hyperventilation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Less than 35 mmHg
For every change in CO2 by 10 mmHg, you will have a corresponding
change in pH by _____ in the opposite direction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔0.08
Will the PaCO2 or ETCO2 be higher? and by how much? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔PaCO2 will always be higher by 3-5 mmHg.
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Questions Marking Scheme New Update
| A+ Rated
What is diffusion? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Movement of molecules from high to
low concentration
Where does gas exchange occur? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔alveolar-capillary
membrane
4 Causes of poor diffusion at the alveolar-capillary membrane - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔1. Damage (Atelectasis)
2. Covered with fluid(Pneumonia/ARDS)
3. Insufficient inflation(hypoventilation/poor inspiratory maneuvers)
4. overstretched(High Pplat)
Why do we need to ventilate properly? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To regulate and
maintain appropriate amounts of CO2
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 1
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Co2 regulation second by second - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Carbonic acid buffer
system
What mechanisms produce CO2? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Aerobic and anaerobic
metabolism
What mechanisms regulate CO2? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Being in an aerobic
state
2. Blood flow to lungs
3. Proper diffusion
4. appropriate minute ventilation
PaCO2 for hypoventilation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Above 45 mmHg
PaCO2 for hyperventilation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Less than 35 mmHg
For every change in CO2 by 10 mmHg, you will have a corresponding
change in pH by _____ in the opposite direction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔0.08
Will the PaCO2 or ETCO2 be higher? and by how much? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔PaCO2 will always be higher by 3-5 mmHg.
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 2
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
