Ch. 11-16

Question 1

What is considered a medium velocity impact?

Answer 1

A bullet from a handgun

Question 2

What is the law of inertia?

Answer 2

Resistance to change in velocity

Question 3

An injury caused by an object that passes through the skin or other body tissue is called what?

Answer 3

Penetrating trauma

Question 4

What is it called when you have a keen awareness that there may be injuries based on your scene size up?

Answer 4

Index of suspicion

Question 5

Is the normal respiratory rate of a pediatric patient higher or lower than that of an adult?

Answer 5

Higher

Question 6

What refers to the EMT’s initial sense of the patient’s condition, based on an immediate assessment of the patient’s environment, appearance, and chief complaint?

Answer 6

General impression

Question 7

What does ABC stand for?

Answer 7

Airway, breathing, circulation

Question 8

A patient whose mental status can be described as verbal is able to do what?

Answer 8

Respond to speaking or shouting by opening the eyes

Question 9

When the heart contracts and forces blood into the arteries, the pressure created is known as the what?

Answer 9

Systolic blood pressure

Question 10

What is paradoxical motion?

Answer 10

Where the diaphragm moves in the opposite direction it should while having respirations

Question 11

What is a stoma?

Answer 11

A permeant surgical opening in the neck where the patient breathes

Question 12

What is a tracheostomy?

Answer 12

A surgical incision in the neck that is held open by a tube where the patient can breath

Question 13

What is trending?

Answer 13

Reassessing and recording findings of the reassessment so they can be compared to earlier findings