West coast emt block 2 exam test questions

What are passive ventilations?

It creates negative pressure in the chest

What is supplemental oxygen?

Oxygen delivered at concentrations exceeding 21% to increase the amount circulating within the blood.

When do you provide ventilations?

Angnal respirations

Semiconscious patient

What are indications for existing ventilations?

Hyperventilation

Shallow breaths

When is it OK to give oxygen?

When they're breathing adequately

Signs of adequate breathing

Normal respiratory rate

Clear and equal breath sounds bilaterally

Adequate air movement heard and felt from nose and mouth

Good chest rise and fall with each ventilation

Single EMT managing a aptic patient

Mouth , to mask

What's the difference between external versus internal respirations?

External respiration is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the alveoli and the blood, while internal respiration is the exchange of gases between the blood and the body's cells.

What is the process of chemical breathing?

Cemoreceptor send increase in CO2. The rate and death of breathing will be high.

Do you have a patient who is overdose in aquatic she is semiconscious, slow, shallow respirations how do we manage her airway and keep it open?

MPA and assist ventilation

A patient that has CHF you hear rails what do rails indicate in the lungs

Pulmonary edema

Their conscious and alert and they follow commands, but is in significantly respiratory distress and is very hypoxic. What do we do for him?

Cpat

Alkosis vs acidosis

Acidosis is a condition in which the blood pH is too low due to excess acid or CO₂, while alkalosis is a condition in which the blood pH is too high due to a loss of acid or CO₂.

What kind of things cause hyperventilation

Hyperventilation is caused by anything that makes a person breathe faster or deeper than the body needs, leading to excess CO₂ loss.

Two characteristics of anaphylactic

Airway swelling

Hypertension

After seeing a safe and BSI, what is our first priority

External bleeding and then air

Hyperfusion is another term for what?

Cardiogenic shock, signs of symptoms

Chest pain, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, hypotension, lightheadedness, altered mental status.

If you give someone epinephrine and they do not improve, what do you do?

Call medical direction and get another one

When the heart rate is too fast, why does the cardiac output decrease?

The heart rate doesn't refill effectively

What's ischemic heart disease

Not enough oxygen to the heart tissues

If there are any respiratory distress, what do we do?

Check airway and make sure it's clear

What is psychogenic shock?

syncope or fainting caused by temporary dilation of vessels reducing blood flow to the brain

Sudden death following a ami is usually is the result of what

Ventricular ventilation

A patient who is overdosing on an opioid and not breathing and his post is weak what is our first priority

Maintain airway and ventilate for him

The pelvic bones are formed by the fusion of the:

ilium, ischium, pubis

Patience with signs of AMI what do we do?

Call ALS give them aspirin, nitro, and oxygen transport

The right upper quadrant is what

Under the liver

What is subcutaneous emphysema?

air trapped in the tissue (usually neck, face, and chest) in the thoraix

What is evisceration?

removal of internal organs

What is rigidity?

Stiffness or inflexibility of muscles

What is capnography measuring

Carbon dioxide is being exhaled

What are pearl negatives?

Pulmonary embolism's rule of criteria

What is the sympathetic head to toe?

Is a traumatic injury

Who are the bones in the forearm?

Radius and alda

What is lupent

Albuterol inhaler for asthma

The goal of a sympathetic head to toe is to perform during

Secondary assessment

Without oxygen, the body cells use what to produce energy

Anaerobic metabolism

What causes the result for prehospital cardiac arrest?

Dysrnymthmia

How do we assess circulation in a conscious patient?

Cap refill radio, pulse and skin signs

Function of the left atrium

receives oxygenated blood from the lungs

What do we need to be conscious for forgiving generic patients medication's?

Take a while to absorb

Msra

Bacteria that is resentment to different antibiotics