1. Pediatric patients who are struck by moving cars commonly

2. Anaphylaxis is defined as the presence of signs of an allergic reaction combined with

3. Drug names you may find on medication packaging include all of the following EXCEPT

4. The most common cause of uncomplicated seizures in the pediatric patient is

5. You respond to a nursing home for a call about a patient with a history of COPD. You are told that the patient complained of difficulty breathing, so oxygen was applied at 2 liters per minute by a simple face mask. After several minutes, the patient became drowsy and then unconscious. As you assess the patient, you find him barely breathing and begin assisted ventilations with a bag-valve mask. After a few minutes, the patient improves and begins waking up. Why did the patient rapidly deteriorate after oxygen was applied?

6. The most reliable indicator of the severity of an allergic reaction is

7. You are transporting a major trauma patient who you believe to be in hypovolemic shock. During the transport, the patient’s ventilations become ineffective, and you begin assisting ventilations with a bag-valve mask. On reassessment, you expect to see

8. The purpose for performing the steps of the rapid trauma assessment in the same order each time is to

9. You are treating a 34-year-old roofer who has been working outside for more than six hours in high heat and humidity. You determine the patient is suffering from heat stroke. The characteristic of this illness that distinguishes it from other heat-related illnesses is the presence of

10. Your patient is experiencing uncontrollable vomiting. Upon arriving at the patient’s residence, you notice a trash can containing approximately 400–500 cc of bright red blood. You find that the patient is not currently vomiting. Appropriate body substance isolation (BSI) precautions would include

11. You respond to a call about a stabbing and find your male patient sitting on a bar stool with a broken beer bottle impaled in his anterior thigh. This is your patient’s only injury, and the bleeding appears minimal. You should

12. Which of the following patients should have a nasopharyngeal airway placed?

13. A condition in which the heart is unable to pump efficiently and fluids accumulate in the lungs, neck veins, or extremities is called

14. You are treating a patient who complains of increasing shortness of breath, swelling of the ankles, and nonproductive cough over the past week. She states that she has been treated for various cardiac problems in the past but has been unable to afford her medications for the last month. As you assess the patient, you find rales in all lung fields. During transport, this patient would be most comfortable in the ________ position.

15. You can assume that a patient has a patent airway without further assessment if the patient

16. The preferred method of providing artificial ventilation is the

17. Activated charcoal works by

18. When treating an infant with a foreign-body airway obstruction, you should alternate ________ until the obstruction is relieved.

19. After questioning your patient about the details of his chest pain, you ask if he also has shortness of breath, nausea, or dizziness. These symptoms commonly accompany cardiac-related chest pain and are known as

20. Your ambulance is called to a home for a patient with generalized weakness. When you arrive, you are brought to the bedroom of an elderly patient lying in a hospital bed. The patient is responsive only to loud verbal stimuli and complains only of feeling tired. As your partner begins an assessment, you gather more history and find out that the patient has felt increasingly weak for the past three days and has had little appetite. She denies she has had a fever. The family also tells you that they have noticed the patient passing large amounts of dark, tarry stool during this time period. Your partner reports the patient’s abdomen is slightly distended and firm to the touch. You suspect

21. An important sign of respiratory distress that is common in infants but less common in adults is

22. When treating trauma patients with suspected head, neck, or back injuries, it is important not to release manual immobilization until the patient is fully immobilized with an appropriately sized cervical collar and

23. The written or electronic run report should be finished

24. You respond to a call for a “man down.” On the scene, you find two police officers and a man lying on a sidewalk. The man is not responding to vocal stimuli. As you begin your assessment, the patient begins moving spontaneously, but he doesn’t seem to understand what you’re telling him, and he can’t answer any of your questions. You may treat this patient

25. Principles of proper incident command or incident management should be used on