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Prehospital Emergency Care Practice Test: Basic Anatomy, Physiology, and Medical Terminology
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Prehospital Emergency Care Practice Test: Basic Anatomy, Physiology, and Medical Terminology
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1. A patient informs you that he must sprinkle artificial digestive enzymes on all his foods before eating them. Based on this information, which endocrine gland should you assume is dysfunctional?
2. The bones of the upper extremities include the:
3. After you apply and use the automated external defibrillator, a patient regains his pulse and has adequate respirations. The paramedic asks you to place the patient in a lateral recumbent position. How should you position this patient?
4. A patient has fractured bones in his left leg. Which bones could be involved in this injury?
5. Another EMT informs you that a patient has been stabbed once with a knife in the right midaxillary region. Which description best identifies where is this injury located?
6. For the lungs to oxygenate blood, there must be blood flow provided by the right ventricle to the alveoli. This is an example of which principle?
7. Which statement about the human anatomy is true?
8. As you arrive on scene, an Emergency Medical Responder informs you that the patient has agonal respirations. Based on this description, you would expect the patient's breathing to be:
9. A patient with an orbital fracture is most likely to complain of:
10. The nervous system is structurally subdivided into the:
11. The pressure exerted on the walls of the arteries as the left ventricle contracts is called:
12. The structure containing a person's 'voice box' is termed the:
13. What is the name of the male reproductive structure that stores sperm?
14. A patient suffering a carpal fracture would most likely complain of pain in her:
15. Assessment of a patient who was involved in a motor vehicle collision reveals tenderness over ribs 9-12 on the lateral right side. Based on this injury, the EMT should be alert for which additional concern?
16. A patient has a total occlusion of the left femoral artery. With this condition, which assessment finding would the EMT expect?
17. Based on the anatomic and physiological differences between an infant and an adult, which finding would suggest respiratory distress in an infant, but would be less likely to be observed in an adult?
18. A patient has taken a medication that increases the activity of his sympathetic nervous system. Given this treatment, which sign or symptom would the EMT expect to find?
19. A patient with a calcaneal fracture has a broken:
20. Emergency Medical Responders inform you that a 73-year-old female patient has fallen and has a hematoma to the occipital area of her head. Based on this description, you should expect to find the injury in which area of the head?
21. A patient who has had both her thyroid and parathyroid glands removed would most likely have difficulty with:
22. Occlusion to which pulmonary structure would cause total cessation of airflow into and out of the lungs?
23. A patient informs you that he has had his gallbladder surgically removed. Based on the physiology of the gallbladder, which statement is most true regarding this patient?
24. Which body system protects internal organs of the chest and provides for movement of the extremities?
25. Which term is most closely related to the elbow?

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