Airway and Breathing
The most effective method for assessing the quality of air movement in the lungs.
What is auscultating breath sounds with a stethoscope?
Poor peripheral circulation will cause the skin to take on this appearance.
What is ashen?
Severe chest pain with cool, pale skin is a condition that warrants this.
What is immediate transport?
This vital sign should always be obtained for a patient with altered mental status.
What is a blood glucose level?
The AVPU scale is used to rapidly establish this in a patient.
What is the patient's level of consciousness (LOC)?
"How much Tylenol do you take each day?" is asked to establish this letter of SAMPLE.
What is M (medications)?
This high-pitched, crowing upper airway sound indicates an upper airway obstruction.
What is stridor?
For a stab wound to the groin with bright red, spurting blood, this is your first action.
What is apply direct pressure to the wound?
A painful femur that prevents a patient from noticing his back pain is an example of this.
What is a distracting injury?
These are the three assessment findings when checking neurovascular status.
What pulse, motor, and sensory function?
In an unresponsive patient with snoring or gurgling respirations, this is your immediate action to make the airway patent.
What is open the airway?
Normal respiratory rates should not exceed this many breathes/min in toddlers and this many in infants? (2 answers)
What are 27 and 53?
Supplemental oxygen without assisted ventilation is most appropriate for a patient with difficulty breathing and this.
What is adequate tidal volume?
A drop in blood pressure may indicate this change in the blood vessels
What is loss of vascular tone?
This is indicated at the very end of the scene size up in the assessment for a patient with head trauma and altered mental status.
What is take c-spine precautions?
When you inspect a patient's pupils with a penlight, they should normally react by doing this.
What is constricting?
For a semiconscious motorcycle-crash patient with snoring respirations, you open the airway with this maneuver.
What is a jaw-thrust maneuver?
This diamond-shaped tool guides the assessments and care of the geriatric patient.
What is the GEMS diamond?
A patient leaning forward on outstretched arms, head and chin thrust slightly forward, is in this position, indicating this problem. (2 answers)
What is the tripod position, indicating difficulty breathing?
For a 62-year-old who is unresponsive and pulseless, you should do this.
What is start CPR and attach the AED as soon as possible?
With a patient reporting multiple complaints, the EMT's responsibility is to determine which one poses this.
What is the greatest threat to the patient's life?
This is the term to describe uneven pupils.
What is anisocoria?
According to the ordered steps of primary assessment, this is the very first thing you address after forming the general impression.
What is level of consciousness?
During a 30 minute transport of a stable patient, you should reassess them at least this many times.
What is two? (every 15 minutes)
Unlike respiratory distress, respiratory failure is suggested when the patient has diminished muscle tone and this heart rate change.
What is bradycardia (a slowing heart rate)?
This tool measures the oxygen saturation of hemoglobin in the capillary beds.
What is the pulse oximeter?
When the chest, or part of it, moves in a direction opposite to its normal movement during breathing.
What is paradoxical (chest wall) motion?
Jugular venous distention suggests a problem with blood returning to the heart if the patient is in this position.
What is sitting up at a 45° angle?
A conscious patient has right-upper-quadrant pain with jaundiced skin and sclera. You should suspect this.
What is liver dysfunction?
The term for the evident cause of the patient's condition - the EMT's working conclussion.
What is field impression?