NREMT Test practice

In patients with heart disease, acute coronary syndrome is MOST often the result of:

atherosclerosis

Which of the following is considered minimum personal protective equipment (PPE) when suctioning an unresponsive patient's airway?

Gloves and full facial protection

When assessing a patient who has stroke-like symptoms, you should recall that:

the patient may be unable to communicate, but can often understand

In most states, the EMT is required to report which of the following occurrences?

Animal bite

A 39-year-old man asks you to take him to the hospital because has had a fever, headache, and diarrhea for the past 2 days. His blood pressure is 120/60 mm Hg, his pulse is 110 beats/min, and his respirations are 16 breaths/min. You should:

transport him to the hospital in a position of comfort

A man was kicked in the head and chest and stabbed in the abdomen. He is conscious, but restless, and is coughing up blood. His breathing is rapid and shallow, his skin is cool and pale, and his pulse is rapid and weak. The EMT should recognize that this patient’s signs and symptoms are MOST likely the result of:

internal hemorrhage

Which of the following statements regarding pediatric anatomy is correct?

The occiput is proportionately larger when compared to an adult.

Damaged small blood vessels beneath the skin following blunt trauma cause:

ecchymosis.

In contrast to the contractions associated with true labor, Braxton-Hicks contractions:

do not increase in intensity and are alleviated by a change in position.

You are performing abdominal thrusts on a 19-year-old man with a severe airway obstruction when he becomes unresponsive. After lowering him to the ground and placing him in a supine position, you should:

perform 30 chest compressions and open his airway.

After an adult cardiac arrest patient has been intubated by a paramedic, you are providing ventilations as your partner performs chest compressions. When ventilating the patient, you should:

deliver each breath over 1 second at a rate of 10 breaths/min.

Medications such as albuterol (Ventolin) relieve respiratory distress by:

relaxing the smooth muscle of the bronchioles.

An adult patient opens his eyes in response to a painful stimulus, moans when you ask him questions, and pulls his arm away when you palpate it. What is his Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score?

8

The maximum pressure generated in the arms and legs during contraction of the left ventricle is called:

systolic blood pressure.

You are assessing an elderly man with respiratory distress. He is coughing up bloody sputum and has an oxygen saturation of 85%. You auscultate his breath sounds and hear coarse crackles in all lung fields. This patient MOST likely has:

congestive heart failure.

A 33-year-old woman with a history of asthma presents with acute respiratory distress. She is conscious and alert, but anxious. She took two puffs of her albuterol inhaler without relief. Her oxygen saturation is 88% and you hear diffuse wheezing while auscultating her lungs. What should you do?

Assist her with a third albuterol treatment, administer supplemental oxygen, and transport

When you begin to assess a woman in labor, she states that her contractions are occurring every 4 to 5 minutes and lasting approximately 30 seconds each. Which of the following questions would be MOST appropriate to ask next?

At how many weeks' gestation are you?

In which of the following situations would you MOST likely encounter agonal gasps?

Shortly after the patient becomes unresponsive and pulseless

While assessing a patient who was ejected from his truck, the EMT notices that his chest collapses and his abdomen rises during inhalation. What should the EMT suspect?

Spinal cord injury

When an electrical impulse reaches the atrioventricular node, it is briefly delayed so that:

ventricular filling can occur.

In general, you should avoid rewarming a frostbitten body part in the field if:

the affected part could refreeze after rewarming.

If the level of carbon dioxide in the arterial blood increases:

the respiratory rate and depth increase.