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2024 latest update OEC Exam questionswith correct answers
Acute Mountain Sickness Symptoms - correct answer ✔✔Headache & Feelings of Sickness
What order should you approach a patient in a field setting? - correct answer ✔✔1) Scene Size-Up 2)
Primary Assessment 3) Second Assessment
What is the normal range for respiratory rate in in children? - correct answer ✔✔18 breaths per minute
In the START system for triaging patients you should include _______ in your assessment to determine
the order in which patients will receive emergency care? - correct answer ✔✔respiratory rate, pules,
mental status, ability to walk
While a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest receives emergency care you note that her abdomen grows
larger with each ventilation provided from a bag-valve mask. What instructions should you provide? -
correct answer ✔✔"Let's slow the ventilation rate to 12 per minute and not squeeze in as much air with
each breath."
A 25-year-old woman arrives in the aid room with her husband. She is 37 weeks pregnant and in labor.
Your exam reveals the baby's head is coming out of the mother. What do you do? - correct answer
✔✔Have someone call for EMS and prepare for delivery of the baby and open and prepare an obstetrical
kit.
Special operations is a term used to denote infrequently performed activities that...? - correct answer
✔✔require specialized training, skills, and equipment in a remote setting
A person in poor health cannot tolerate..? (Think Blood & Shock) - correct answer ✔✔the same amount
of blood loss as a healthier person and can enter shock sooner
What is the coccyx? - correct answer ✔✔Tailbone
, An allergic reaction to a substance can occur? - correct answer ✔✔minutes, or hours, after exposure to
the substance.
Describe a man lying in the prone position - correct answer ✔✔lying face down on his stomach
An OEC Technician identifies the medications a patient takes during what process? - correct answer
✔✔SAMPLE
You have been called to an unknown medical emergency. On scene you are presented with an 84-year-
old patient who is confused and does not obey commands. What do you do? - correct answer
✔✔Question the patient's family members would be the best way to determine the patient's mental
status.
The major cause of death in avalanche victims is? - correct answer ✔✔asphyxiation
To decrease a patient's heat loss due to radiation? - correct answer ✔✔Put a hat on the patient's head
What is the epiglottis? - correct answer ✔✔The epiglottis is he leaf-shaped flap that helps prevent food
from entering the lower respiratory system.
A young intoxicated male patient cannot move his lower extremities after diving into the shallow end of
a pool and hitting the bottom with his head. What type of mechanism of injury does he have? - correct
answer ✔✔Compression mechanisms is most likely to be responsible for this injury.
You have responded to a scene at which a young man tells you he splashed a chemical into his eye. He is
complaining of burning and pain in his right eye. After performing a primary assessment and finding no
life-threatening conditions, - correct answer ✔✔you would hold the patient's injured eye open and flush
it with large amounts of sterile water from the nose to the outer edge of the eye.
An oropharyngeal airway can be used..? - correct answer ✔✔In an unresponsive patient with no gag
reflex
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