Anything Vitals
What are baseline vital signs?
What is the first set of vital signs
Which chronic lung disease is characterized by the permanent destruction of the terminal portions of the airway?
What is emphysema
If your patient is leaking cerebrospinal fluid from the ears or nose, what could your patient be suffering from?
What is a skull fracture
The interview question, You probably want some pain meds, don't you? is BEST described as what kind of question?
What is a leading question
Before using which medication should you first obtain venous access?
What is nitroglycerine
While obtaining a blood pressure using a stethoscope and cuff, the AEMT listens for sounds to indicate the values of the systolic and diastolic sounds which are called what?
What are Korotkoff sounds
Which term is used to describe a movement in the opposite way than expected?
What is paradoxical
What abdominal exam finding should be assessed in a medical patient but NOT expected in a trauma patient?
What is ascites
A patient with acute coronary syndrome who complains of pain in his left arm instead of in his chest is experiencing what type of pain?
What is referred pain
What would be the treatment of choice for a patient with severe anaphylaxis?
What is epinephrine
Taking a blood pressure without a stethoscope is referred to as what method?
What is palpation
What term is used to describe the collapse of a lung secondary to the spontaneous rupture of a lung?
What is spontaneous pneumothorax
When assessing your patients pupils, suspect stroke or brain injury if:
What is one pupil reacting but the other does not
You arrive on scene for an OB patient. The patient is a 20y/o female clearly pregnant stating she is having contractions every five minutes and her water broke. What is the chief complaint?
What is the contractions every five minutes
Your ALS partner has intubated a patient. The patient was then placed on waveform capnography, and you read a numeric value of 39mmHg on the monitor beside the capnogram. What does this number tell you?
What is the level of CO2 in the exhaled breath
What are you testing when you take a patients vitals signs while they are laying flat, then again when the patient is standing?
What are orthostatic vital signs
What is the purpose of the valves in the circulatory system?
What is to prevent the backflow of blood in the vessels
How do you test a patients capillary refill?
What is firmly compressing and then releasing pressure on the nail bed
When the patient states he does not have a symptom that you would expect him to have based on his other complaints, the patient has given you a __
What is a pertinent negative
You respond to a 65 y/o male with chest pain with a blood pressure of 88/62 and a heart rate of 136. What should you suspect?
What is cardiogenic shock
Define pulsus paradoxus
What is the decrease in the strength of the pulse during the inspiratory phase of the patient
What is Cushing's reflex identified by?
What is a combination of hypertension and bradycardia
Upon examining a patient with a decreased level of responsiveness, you detect a fruity odor on his breath that reminds you of nail polish remover. This finding is consistent with what problem?
What is diabetic ketoacidosis
What should you administer to a patient with chest pain and a blood pressure of 92/52?
What is nitroglycerin
You are dispatched to a 16y/o female with shortness of breath due to cystic fibrosis. What is the underlying pathophysiology of cystic fibrosis?
What is a condition in which excessive and thick mucus often clogs the airways