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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. Which structure or vessel carries oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. Which statement best describes the difference between cardiac and smooth muscle?
5. An abrasion affects which part of the skin?
6. 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?
7. A patient has fractured bones in his left leg. Which bones could be involved in this injury?
8. When palpating a pulse on top of the foot, the EMT is assessing blood flow in which vessel?
9. A patient informs you that he injured a tendon in his knee three years ago and has had a difficult time walking since then. You recognize that this injury involves a structure that:
10. Which components of the nervous system must be functional for a patient to be conscious?
11. What is the primary function of the left atrium?
12. Accurately communicating patient injury information to other health care professionals is most reliant upon:
13. The segment of the spinal column that forms the posterior pelvis is the:
14. The alveoli of a patient's lungs are filled with fluid and pus secondary to pneumonia. How does this disturbance place the patient at risk?
15. You are using cryotherapy to treat a deformed and painful ankle. This treatment involves the use of:
16. Which statement best describes the anatomic position?
17. Which plane would show the liver, stomach, and spleen?
18. A tachypneic patient is breathing:
19. In the healthy heart, the electrical impulses that cause normal contraction of the cardiac muscle are initiated in the:
20. The structure containing a person's 'voice box' is termed the:
21. A patient with a calcaneal fracture has a broken:
22. 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?
23. The left side of a patient's heart is in severe failure, causing blood to back up behind it. Which sign or symptom are you most likely to observe first?
24. Which portion of the heart is in failure when it can no longer effectively pump blood to the lungs?
25. When the diaphragm and intercostal muscles relax, which phase of the respiratory cycle happens next?

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