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NREMT Advanced-EMT Best Questions and Answers
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NREMT Advanced-EMT Best Questions and AnswersInitial Assessment: B-SMNAC - Correct Answer - BSI (body substance isolation);
- Scene Safety;
- Mechanism of Injury (MOI)/Nature of Illness (NOI);
- Number of Patients;
- Assistance (additional units, Fire, Police, etc.);
- C-spine (and/or C-collar)
Initial Assessment: G-CAAT - Correct Answer - General Impression;
- Chief Complaints, Life Threats (hemorrhage);
- AVPU;
- ABC's (airway, breathing, circulation);
- Transport Decision (Load and Go or Stay and Play)
Components of General Impression - Correct Answer ASSS-FLOP-VD:
- Apparent state of health; NREMT Advanced-EMT Best Questions and Answers
- Skin color, obvious lesions;
- Signs of distress;
- Sexual development;
- Facial expressions;
- Level of consciousness;
- Odors;
- Posture, Motor, Gait;
- Vital statistics;
- Dress, Grooming, Hygiene
Components of AVPU - Correct Answer - Alert;
- responds to Verbal stimuli;
- responds to Painful stimuli;
- Unresponsive NREMT Advanced-EMT Best Questions and Answers
Secondary Assessment: OPQRST-I - Correct Answer especially for Respiratory and Cardiac patients:
- Onset;
- Provocation/Palliation;
- Quality;
- Radiation;
- Scale/Severity;
- Time;
- Interventions
What is OPQRST? - Correct Answer a mnemonic for remembering the questions to ask when assessing the patient's chief complaint or major symptoms
Onset - Correct Answer - When and how did the symptom begin?
- Ask the patient if the onset was sudden or gradual.
- Also determine if the onset was associated with a particular activity. NREMT Advanced-EMT Best Questions and Answers
Provocation/palliation: - Correct Answer - What makes the symptom worse?
- What makes the symptom better?
Quality - Correct Answer How would you describe the pain?
Radiation - Correct Answer - Where do you feel the pain?;
- Where does the pain go?
Scale/Severity - Correct Answer - On a scale from 0 to 10, with 10 being the worst.
- How bad is the symptom?
Time - Correct Answer - Determine if the symptom has been present for minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years;
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