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

The following subject areas are covered in the EMT Basic Exam:    
- Airway techniques    
- Patient assessment    
- Medical emergencies    
- Trauma    
- Treatment of infants and children    
- Operations    
- Advanced airway maneuvers    
- Anatomy and physiology