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1
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What are the 6 rights of drug administration?

A 
Drug
Dose
Documentation
Time
Patient
Route
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2
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What are the four process of pharmacokinetics?

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Absorption
Biotransformation
Distribution
Elimination

Mnemonic = AB no C DE

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3
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Signs of diabetes

A

Polydipsia
Ployphagia
Polyuria

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4
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Signs of electrocution

Electric shocks can cause which of the following

A

Internal damage
Ventricular fibrillation
Cardiac irritability
Smouldering clothes

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5
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Define pharmacokinetics

A

How drugs are transported in and out of the body.

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6
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What is the primary function of nitro when treating angina?

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Reduce preload

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7
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What kind of shoulder dislocation presents with a patient in the “squared off” position?

A

Anterior dislocation

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8
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What is the most common age group to experience febrile seizures?

A

6 months to 6 years old

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9
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What breathing pattern is associated with diabetic ketoacidosis?

A

Kussmaul’s

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10
Q

Frothy red blood at a wound site may suggest?

A

Open pneumothorax

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11
Q

Subglottic thermal burns are most likely caused by?

A

Superheated steam

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12
Q

Hyperresonance in the chest can be cause by?

A

Phneumothorax or emphysema

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13
Q

Anesthetics are which?

A

Medication that induce loss of sensation to touch or pain

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14
Q

The buccal route is?

A

Between the gums and cheek

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15
Q

Patient rotates palms to face downward, this is called?

A

Pronation

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16
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What are some potential neck laceration complications?

A

Subqtaneous emphaema
Air embolism
External / internal jugular or carotid laceration

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17
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What vital signs would you expect with Cushing?

A

Increase blood pressure
Irregular respirations
Decrease heart rate

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18
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Define unified command.

A

A coordinated effort involving multiple jurisdictions

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19
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Expect ECG artifact with all except

A

An enlarged heart

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20
Q

Which is not a cause of dysrhythmia?

A

Hypertension

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21
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What is not a cause of tachycardia?

A

Hypothermia

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22
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What are the two branches of the left coronary artery?

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Anterior descending artery and circumflex branch

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23
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Which of the following cause pulmonary edema?

A

Left sided heart failure

24
Q

What are open ended questions?

A

Questions that cannot be answered yes or no.

25
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Differential field diagnosis definition

A

The list of possible causes for your patients condition.

26
Q

Oxygen may cause respiratory distress in which patient?

A

A COPD patient

27
Q

Car accident patient is experiencing a “tearing sensation” in the chest with pain radiating to the back. What is the most likely cause?

A

Aortic aneurysm

28
Q

Blunt trauma in the pediatric patient, because of flexibility, suspect injury to?

A

Spleen

29
Q

What are the lead placements for lead II?

A

+LL & -RA

30
Q

Which part of respiration is considered passive?

A

Exhalation

31
Q

Is pressure in the thorax during expiration greater or less than the environment?

A

Greater

32
Q

Urticaria is caused by?

A

Vasodilation

33
Q

What is bioequivalence?

A

Relative therapeutic effectiveness of chemically equivalent drugs

34
Q

A child asthma attack without wheezing is?

A

An ominous sign

35
Q

Obese female patient complains of RUQ pain radiation to the shoulder after consumptions of grease food. What could be the cause?

A

Cholecysitis

36
Q

Which occurs during hyperventilation?

A

CO2 levels lower as a result of increased respiratory rate

37
Q

What is considered alkalosis?

A

pH greater than 7.45

7.46-14

38
Q

Symptoms of meningitis?

A

Stiff neck
Fever
Lethargy
Irritability

39
Q

Your partner complains of fever, chills, malaise, aches and cough. What do you suspect?

A

Influenza

40
Q

Hypertonic solution moves water

A

Into the vascular space

41
Q

Female patient, 36 pregnant, presents with altered LOC and recent seizures. What is most likely?

A

eclampsia

42
Q

Supine hypotensive syndrome is caused by?

A

The gravid uterus compresses the interior vena cava when the mother is supine

43
Q

Hypotension can develop with severe anaphylaxis due to?

A

Increased vascular permeability and vasodilation

44
Q

During cardiogenic shock, the body compensates by?

A

Increases contractile force, increase preload, lowers vascular resistance

45
Q

Alkalosis and hyperventilation may produce?

A

Cramping / carpopedal spasm

46
Q

What is tidal volume?

A

Average volume of gas inhaled or exhaled in one respiratory cycle, 500 ml

47
Q

Where do internal respiration occur?

A

Peripheral capillary

48
Q

Put the upper airway anatomy in order from superior to inferior.

A 
Nares
Nasopharynx
Larynx
Laryngopharynx
Trachea
49
Q

Bronchodilator effect what receptors?

A

Beta 2

50
Q

What is ethics?

A

What determines how one should live

51
Q

What is ethical relativism?

A

Each person decides how to behave and whatever decision that person makes is acceptable.

52
Q

What does nocp do?

A

Serves as a reference point for provincial or territorial bodies seeking to facilitate the mobility of paramedics between provinces and territories. Nocp may become the blueprint for the national exam. Nocp is the key to defining a national scope of practice.

All of the above

53
Q

What does primum non nocerre mean?

A

First do no harm

54
Q

What is required for a patient refusal

A

A witness

55
Q

Suspect cardiac tamponade when?

A

After cpr

56
Q

What is the shape of the diaphgram?

A

Saddle

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