Airway,Respiration & Ventilation
What is reduced when patients respirations are shallow?
What is Tidal volume
What should you do to someone who is found to be unresponsive, pulseless, and apneic
What is start CPR, or similar.
What is the treatment for a patient with an arterial bleed on the upper leg?
What is direct pressure
What body system is being assessed during pulse, motor, sensation, and pupillary response
What is the neurologic system?
What does a positive TB skin test indicate?
What is something similar to exposure to TB
What is the leaf-shaped flap of cartilage that prevents food and liquid from entering the trachea?
What is the epiglottis?
What is E in SAMPLE
What is Events Leading up to?
How does CPAP improve oxygenation and ventilation?
What is forcing the alveoli open or something similar
Average adult heart rate range?
What is 60 - 100
An elderly patient has fallen and hit her head., what should you focus your attention on?
What is the ABC's or something similar
What separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity?
What is the diaphragm?
The process performed to artificially maximize the target population's exposure to a biologic agent, thereby exposing the greatest number of people and achieving the desired effect, is called
What is weaponization
The process of exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between the alveoli and the
blood of the capillaries is called:
What is external respiration.
What does L stand for in DUMBELS & SLUDGEM
What is Lacrimation?
What respiratory muscles are not well developed in children?
What is intercostal muscles
After squeezing the end of a childs finger or toe for a few seconds, blood should return
to the area within:
What is two seconds?
How do you treat an evisiceration?
What is apply warm, wet sterile occlusive dressing or something similar
What is the premature separation of the placenta called?
What is placenta abruptio or abruptio placenta
The person who is responsible for authorizing EMTs to perform emergency medical care in the field is the:
shift supervisor.
medical director.
EMS administrator.
field training officer.
Who is the Medical Director?
What connects bones to other bones?
What is Ligaments
What is R in OPQRST - II
What is a pleural effusion?
What is fluid outside the lung?
Deoxygenated blood from the abdomen, pelvis, and lower extremities is returned to the right atrium via the
What is the inferior vena cava
What do blood vessels do when damaged to prevent blood loss?
What is vasoconstriction or constrict or something similar
What are the three major parts of the brain?
What is Cerebrum, cerebellum and brain stem?
What is the primary route of exposure of vesicant agents?
What is the skin? or something similar
The areas of the infant's skull that have not yet fused together are called
What is fontanels?
What is the second A in APGAR?
What is activity?
What happens to the diaphram during inhalation?
What contracting or moving downward
What is the ratio for two rescuer child CPR
What is 15:2
A buildup of blood beneath the skin that produces a
characteristic blue or black discoloration as the result of an injury.
What is ecchymosis?
What is the purpose of the PAT?
What is to rapidly form a general impression?
What immunizations and tests need to be completed on first responders at least every 10 years, according to the CDC?
What is tetanus/diptheria/pertussis booster
A rapid, chaotic rhythm that is completely disorganized is called
What is ventricular fibrillation?
What does BSI stand for?
How much oxygen concentration can be delivered to a patient using a nasal cannula at 6 LPM?
Bonus, what does LPM stand for?
What is 44%
Liters per minute
Based on the American Heart Association's 2020 BLS Provider CPR, high-quality chest compressions should be performed at a rate of ______ for infant, child, and adult CPR.
What is 100-120 compression/minute or something similar
Bruising that is behind the ear that indicates a basilar skull fracture is called what.
What is Battle Sign?
Large amounts of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is generated when
What the cells function with adequate oxygen
What do EMT's and Paramedics continue their education or utilize "Continuing education (CE's)"
What is to maintain update and expand the first responders knowledge, or something like that.
What are small vessels that carry blood away from the heart called?
What is arterioles?
What is E in the DOPE pnuemonic?
Evisceration
Equipment Failure
Edema
Epligottitis