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NREMT AEMT PREP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100% PASS)
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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL-EXAM-DUMPS] Tuesday, July 30, 2024 12:01 AMNREMT AEMT PREP QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS (100% PASS)
M.O.I. - ✔️✔️Mechanism of Injury, vehicles, falls etc.
what do you generally set oxygen to? - ✔️✔️15L/M
How to open airway for a trauma victim? - ✔️✔️chin lift/jaw thrust
apneic - ✔️✔️not breathing
N.O.I - ✔️✔️nature of illness
AVPU - ✔️✔️Alert, verbal/vocal, pain, unconscious
skin CTC - ✔️✔️color,temperature, condition (normal is warm,pink and dry)
hypoperfusion - ✔️✔️Shock.... decreased delivery of oxygen and nutrients to cells)
OPQRST - ✔️✔️for conditions occuring right now (medical) Onset, Provocation,
quality,radiation, severity, time
Onset - ✔️✔️What were you doing when this happened? did it happen suddenly or
gradually? could ...... have caused this?
Provocation - ✔️✔️What makes your pain feel better or worse? does it hurt when you do
.........?
quality - ✔️✔️How would you describe your pain? what does your pain feel like?
radiation - ✔️✔️Where does it hurt the most? is it staying in one spot? where was it when
the pain started
severity - ✔️✔️on scale of 1 to 10 how bad is your pain?
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time - ✔️✔️how long has it been since the pain started?
signs versus symptoms - ✔️✔️signs: something you see
symptoms: something they tell you
nitroglycerin - ✔️✔️vasodilation of coronary arteries
What is first priority after personal safety? - ✔️✔️patient care
brady (root) - ✔️✔️below normal, slow
tachy (root) - ✔️✔️above normal, rapid
tachypnea - ✔️✔️rapid breathing
plegia - ✔️✔️paralysis of the limbs quadraplegia (four limbs) quad=4
bilateral - ✔️✔️both sides
dorsal/ventral - ✔️✔️dorsal: back of body
ventral: front of body
palmar/plantar - ✔️✔️palmar: palm of the hand
plantar: sole of the foot
where to place stethescope for lung sounds? - ✔️✔️mid-clavicular lines
fowler position - ✔️✔️sitting up
integumentary system - ✔️✔️forms protective barrier and aids in temperature regulation
(skin, hair, nails and sweat glands)
zygomatic - ✔️✔️bones that form the structure of the cheeks
proximate cause - ✔️✔️when what you did caused further harm.
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why would you use an emergency move? - ✔️✔️scene is unsafe, you must get to other
patients, care of life threatening injuries requires repositioning
when to use a urgent move? - ✔️✔️when patients condition is declining: backboarding,
removing from a car etc.
what side should you roll recovery position? - ✔️✔️left side
malleolus - ✔️✔️ankle bone
c1 and c2 - ✔️✔️atlas and axis
How many total vertebrae? - ✔️✔️33
portions of skull - ✔️✔️frontal, occipital, temporal, parietal (sides)
calcaneous - ✔️✔️heel bone
normal respiratory rate for children and infants - ✔️✔️c: 15-30 I: 25-50
two major bones of the pelvis - ✔️✔️ilium (superior and widest) and ischium
epiglottis - ✔️✔️structure that prevents foreign matter from entering the trachea
larynx - ✔️✔️voice box
bronchi - ✔️✔️two large branches that come off the trachea
diaphragm - ✔️✔️muscular structure that divides the chest from the abdomen
ventalation vs respiration - ✔️✔️ventilation is moving gases between inhaled air and
blood, respiration is the moving of oxygen between blood and cells
what is the muscle of the heart? - ✔️✔️myocardium
what is the pacemaker of the heart - ✔️✔️sinoatrial node (SA node)
exceptions to the veins= oxygen poor and arteries= oxygen rich rule - ✔️✔️the pulmonary
artery and pulmonary veins
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