Airway
According to the 2020 AHA update, what is the correct method for delivering breaths (using a BLS airway) during CPR?
What is 30 compressions to 2 breathes
An impaled object may be removed from the patient’s body if
It is impairing their airway
Given an adult patient suffering anaphylaxis, Epinephrine should be administered into the
What is the Lateral Thigh
When generally should you apply oxygen?
SpO2 below 94%
The NREMT requires how many hours of CME to recertify as an EMT.
40
Ventilations delivered during CPR (using a BLS airway) should be delivered
When the compressor stops
Which of the following is true regarding tourniquet use?
1. Delay in application significantly increases mortality
2. The device should be placed distal to the injury
3. The tourniquet can be removed when bleeding stops
4. It is likely that a tourniquet will cause limb damage
Delay in application significantly increases mortality
True or False. Syncope is defined as a loss of consciousness accompanied by a loss of postural tone with spontaneous recovery
True
What is the dosage of albuterol?
4-6 Puffs of prescribed metered dose inhaler
Which is the approved triage/tagging system for mass casualty situations in the State of Connecticut?
START Traige System
In assessing your COPD patient’s breathing, you determine that they are moving air adequately, however they are a candidate for the administration of supplemental oxygen if their pulse oximetry reading is less than:
90%
While splinting a fractured extremity the EMT can manage pain management by:
Using proper splinting, ample padding, cold packs, and comfortable positioning to reduce pain.
For patients with an insulin pump who present hypoglycemic with altered mental status and unable to ingest oral glucose, and no ALS is available, which of the following should be done?
Stop or disconnect the pump at the insertion site
What is the dosage of Narcan?
2-4mg IN (intranasal)
What do you do if someone has Taser probes on their embedded their skin?
Do not remove them
For a patient with COPD, you should administer oxygen
At a rate to keep oxygen saturation greater than or equal to 90%
What BLS interventions are considered priority in a traumatic arrest?
CPR, Airway, Bleeding control, pelvic binder, SMR
Given exposure to an allergen, what are the two stand-alone S/Sx of anaphylaxis?
1.Hypotension, Respiratory Compromise
What is the minimum blood pressure to facilitate a patient taking their own nitroglycerin?
Systolic BP over 100
Your patient is a 15 year old male struck by a baseball. He is bleeding from the mouth and holding a tooth in his hand. What is the appropriate way to handle his tooth?
Wrap in saline-soaked dressing
What is a key sign of smoke inhalation?
1. Soot around the patient’s mouth
2. Singed nasal hair
3. Dark particles in the patient’s sputum
Selective SMR cannot be applied to what ages?
<3y/o and >65y/o
When suctioning an ETT you note that the secretions are very thick and hard to suction, what can you do to loosen them?
Squeeze sterile saline into the ETT, ventilate the patient, and then attempt to suction again.
What is the contraindication of albuterol
symptomatic tachycardia
When assessing your pediatric patient for pain, what does the “A” in “r-FLACC ” stand for?
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