Final Exam

1

100

if the scene is a possible hazmat or had an explosion, you should park your ambulance?

Uphill and Upwind

200

Ecchymosis (bruising) that develops behind the one ear over the mastoid process?

Battle Signs 

300

Fine white powder that causes flu like symptoms, dyspnea, tachycardia, pulmonary edema, and shock. 

Anthrax 

400

What should you do when you arrive on scene that has a IC?

Contact IC for staging or assignment

500

Relative to the wrist, the elbow is?

Proximal 

2

100

Painful urination in men and women is common.

Symptoms are more severe in men than women.

Symptoms appear approx. 2 to 10 days after exposure. 

Gonorrhea 

200

Side effects from this medication causes increase heartrate, dry mucous membranes, dilated pupils, blurred vision. 

Atropine 

300

Responsible for clotting formation

Responsible for fighting infection and disposal of dead cells

Transportation medium for all blood components

Contains protein called Hemoglobin 

Platelets 

WBC

Plasma 

RBC

400

Common sign with patients suffering Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)

A shuffling gait when walking

500

You pull up on scene and your patient on the front lawn, appears to be a confused, and swinging a tire iron.....what should you do?

Seek a safe area/leave the scene and request law enforcement.

3

100

When these nerves are stimulated, it transmits a message from the body to the central nervous system (brain)

Sensory Nerves

200

These nerves carry information from the brain to the muscles

Motor Nerves 

300

Your ability to remain awake is a function of the?

reticular activating system

400

When testing a mechanical suctioning unit, you should turn on the device, clamp the tubing, and ensure that it generates a vacuum pressure of more than?

300 mm Hg

500

You should attempt to maintain a chest compression fraction of at least

80%

4

100

high fever, cough, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, and shortness of breath

MERS-CoV

200

Hallmark signs are stridor and seal-bark cough

Croup

300

A Patient with severe trauma to the arms and face is fully immobilized onto a LSB AND begins to vomit. You should?

turn the backboard onto its side.

400

28 y/o female. Possible narcotic overdose. Patient is semiconscious and has slow, shallow respirations. You should?

insert a nasopharyngeal airway and begin assisted ventilation

500

A measure of the amount of air that is moved into or out of the lungs?

Tidal Volume

5

100

Thickest layer of tissue of a blood vessel wall, composed of elastic tissue and smooth muscle cells that allow the vessel to expand and contract. 

Tunica Media 

200

Located in the upper brainstem; responsible for maintenance of consciousness, specifically one's level of arousal 

Reticular activating system (RAS)

300

Healthcare provided within the community, rather than at a physicians office or hospital. Example: Paramedic administering flu vaccines 

Mobile Integrated Health (MIH)

400

Transports a mature egg to the uterus 

Fallopian tubes 

500

What organ eliminates toxic waste products from the body and control the body’s fluid balance

Kidneys