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Common symptoms associated with carbon monoxide poisoning.
What is headache, nausea, dizziness, and weakness?
BONUS: What are some common SIGNS?
Most appropriate management focus for a patient in the postictal phase of a seizure.
What is airway management?
Appropriate positioning for a patient with an abdominal evisceration.
What is supine with knees flexed?
BONUS: Why is this the recommended positioning?
Most common pregnancy complication in the first trimester.
What is spontaneous abortion?
BONUS: During what weeks of gestation is spontaneous abortion most likely to occur?
The most important step in managing the airway of an infant or small child.
What is padding under the shoulders?
BONUS: What airway adjunct would be most appropriate for an infant, OPA or NPA and why?
You are preparing to treat a conscious patient with a suspected overdose. This is the BEST reason for using the minimally necessary BSI control measures.
What is to avoid offending the patient or creating a hostile relationship with them?
Primary reason that it is important to determine when a potential poisoning/exposure occurred.
What is that certain antidotes can only be given within a certain amount of time.
BONUS: What kind of antidotes do you think this might include?
MVC type that creates the highest likelihood for injury and death.
What is a rollover MVC?
BONUS: What are the most likely types of injury due to a rollover?
BONUS BONUS: How much more likely do you think serious injury or death is du to rollover than other MVC types?
What is an urgent move is performed due to patient status, emergent is performed due to environmental safety risks.
BONUS: What kind of move would be appropriate for an A&Ox4 patient c/o chest pain? (emergent or non-emergent?)
Most appropriate way to quickly determine an approximate skin temperature.
What is by placing the back of the hand on your patient's forehead?
Most common cause of bradycardia in a newborn.
What is hypoxia?
BONUS: What kind of heartrate variation do we typically see with hypothermia and hypovolemia?
Alcohol intoxication can be easily mistaken for this other condition.
What is hypoglycemia?
BONUS: What other conditions or disease processes could be causing these symptoms?
Absolute contraindications for the administration of Epinephrine for a suspected anaphylactic reaction.
What are that none exist?
BONUS: What is the appropriate adult and pediatric dose for an Epi auto-injector?
Most immediate indication that a patient is transitioning from compensated to decompensated shock.
What is a drop in blood pressure?
BONUS: What are some findings that would indicate your patient is in compensated shock?
The most appropriate reason for giving oral glucose to a symptomatic patient when you are unable to assess their BGL.
What is that benefits of glucose administration outweigh the consequences?
BONUS: Are there any known consequences to administering glucose?
Most likely cause of absent lung sounds on the left and hyperresonance on the right in a patient with chest trauma. The trachea is midline and neck veins are normal.
What is a simple pneumothorax?
BONUS: How would the patient presentation be expected to change if this were a hemothorax?
First things you check for when listening to lung sounds before true auscultation.
What is air movement and inappropriate sounds?
BONUS: In part of your assessment would you be doing this?
BONUS BONUS: In what part of your assessment would you actually auscultate lung sounds?
What is upper airway obstruction or swelling?
BONUS: What is the most likely cause of snoring respirations?
Best practice for checking pupils on a patient with suspected overdose in a well-lit environment.
What is to first note the pupil size before shining light in them?
The most common obstacle to effective disaster management in EMS.
What is communication breakdown?
BONUS: What is the most likely cause of this problem?
Most appropriate time to cut the umbilical cord following delivery of the newborn: __________ pulsations have stopped and ____________ you have clamped the cord.
What is after pulsations have stopped and after you have clamped the cord?
BONUS: At what intervals should you place the clamps on the umbilical cord?
Most likely cause of the following patient presentation:
-Diaphoretic, pale, and unresponsive
-Weak carotid pulse, agonal breathing
-Report of rapid onset, severe abdominal pain earlier in the day
What is an abdominal aortic aneurysm?
BONUS: What is the most characteristic complaint for a AAA?
GCS of a patient with eye opening to verbal stimulus, making incomprehensible sounds, and localizes to pain.
What is a GCS of 10? (Eye opening - 3, Incomprehensible sounds - 2, localizes pain - 5).
The meaning of each letter in the APGAR acronym.
BONUS BONUS: Who created the APGAR score and in what year?
Most common side effects of Nitroglycerin administration.
What is headache and flushing of the face and neck?
BONUS: What are the absolute contraindications for Nitroglycerin administration?
BONUS BONUS: How often can you repeat NTG administration, how long do you have to wait between administrations, and what must you do first before repeating the dose?
What is 3 liters? (Approx. 1 liter per femur, 500mL from each lower leg).
Most appropriate reason to leave a well-fitting helmet in place for a motorcycle accident involving neck pain/injury.
What is that removing a snug-fitting helmet can make any neck or spinal injuries worse.
BONUS: Why?
BONUS BONUS: Is this likely to require any special packaging for transport?
What is the most likely MOI for a patient with a temperature of 104 degrees F?
What is heat stroke?
BONUS: What is the clinical term for an increase in body temperature or fever?
Best way to determine a patient's circulatory status and blood pressure if you are unable to auscultate or palpate it?
What is to assess pedal pulse?
BONUS: Why pedal and not radial or carotid?
The only two situations in which it is appropriate to place a gloved hand into the birth canal during an abnormal delivery.
What is prolapsed cord and to delay a breech delivery?