NREMT 1 Flashcards
If you reach the site where a woman of advanced age has fallen and injured her ribs, and when you check you find she is breathing rapidly and shallowly, the rate being 40, how can you confirm that this emergency is life threatening?
There is a risk her volume per minute is diminishing
A Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) will usually stop after
10-15 minutes
A 57 year old woman is complaining of chest pain. Her blood pressure is 109/88 and her respirations are at 22 per minute. What condition does the patient’s blood pressure indicate?
Low pulse pressure
Use of an SpO2 monitor on a person suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning will be inaccurate because ___________.
The carbon monoxide molecule displaces the oxygen molecule inhibiting oxygen delivery
You are assessing an 84 year old man. Upon auscultation of the lungs you discover crackles or rale sounds. He is complaining of chest pain and congestion. These signs and symptoms can indicate?
Left ventricular failure
The umbilical cord is wrapped tightly around the baby’s neck and you have tried unsuccessfully to slip the cord over the head. What should your next course of action be?
Cut the cord after clamping in two places
A person suffering from Cholecystitis would experience direct pain in the ___ and referred pain in the ___
RUQ and right shoulder (gall bladder is RUQ of ABD)
What quadrant of ABD is spleen located in?
Left upper
Signs and symptoms of Cushing’s phenomenon include
hypertension, bradycardia, irregular respirations, central neurogenic hyperventilation, and Biot respirations.
Cellular respiration and cellular metabolism are best described as
The use of oxygen and carbohydrates to produce energy and the creation of carbon dioxide and water by-products
NIMS is best explained as
A template system for providing consistent, effective processes in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from an incident
After the baby’s head has delivered you should?
Suction the mouth and nose then check if the cord is wrapped around the infant’s neck
If a patient was feeling nauseated this would likely be a_______________response. If a person was tachycardic it would likely be a___________________ response.
Parasympathetic / sympathetic
With regard to blood pressure, which of the following statements is true?
Blood pressure has a direct affect on the perfusion of the body’s tissues
You assess a patient with difficulty breathing who has a hx of COPD and is breathing through pursed lips, what is the patient trying to do while breathing through pursed lips?
Provide O2 into the lungs and moving CO2 out of lungs
Hyperventilation results in what with O2 level and CO2 levels
Increase in O2 levels and decrease in CO2
The tongue is often a source of airway obstruction; it falls back and occludes the _________?
Pharynx
The lower airway ends at the alveoli, where gas exchange occurs. Oxygen moves to the hemoglobin by passing through a semipermeable membrane. Where does this occur?
capillary bed
The anatomy of the airway consists of the upper and lower airways. The upper airway starts at the mouth and nares and ends at the _________?
cricoid cartilage
To create negative pressure in the thorax (chest cavity) the diaphragm contracts and moves _____________. This action expands the volume of the thorax, allowing air to rush into the lungs.
Downward
You are transporting an elderly male patient in respiratory distress with a history of COPD… The patient has very shallow, rapid respirations with minimal chest wall motion and slight wheezing in the upper lung fields. Given this situation, what would you expect the arterial carbon dioxide levels to be?
Elevated
