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Prehospital Emergency Care Practice Test: Basics of Patient Assessment
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Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) assess patients to determine if they are sick and if there are any life threats. The assessment is broken down into five blocks: Scene safety: This block includes: BSI, Standard precautions, Environment, No hazards noted - Primary survey: This is the first part of the assessment and should be completed in 10–15 minutes. It includes: Scene size up, Personal protective equipment (PPE) for body substance isolation (BSI), General impression of the patient, Determine level of consciousness (LOC), Determine chief complaint (CC) and any life threats - History... Show more
Prehospital Emergency Care Practice Test: Basics of Patient Assessment
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1. Trends in a patient's condition are best noted during which phase of patient assessment?
2. You have just determined that a 92-year-old female patient found in bed is unresponsive, but still has a carotid pulse. Your next action would be to:
3. A 20-year-old female patient is found unresponsive. The first step of the secondary assessment for this patient is to:
4. Which of these physical findings is least consistent with an injured extremity?
5. The EMT determines the medications a patient takes during which phase of the patient assessment?
6. When you are caring for a patient with either a medical complaint or a traumatic injury, you should typically perform the reassessment:
7. When assessing the breath sounds (during a rapid secondary exam) of a critical trauma patient, it is best to auscultate each lung in at least how many places?
8. After manual spine motion restriction is established, it should never be released until:
9. A 5-year-old boy has been vomiting profusely for two days. Your assessment indicates that his airway is open, respirations adequate, and radial pulse fast and weak. His skin is cool and moist, and the capillary refill time is 5 seconds. This patient is most likely:
10. You are transporting a 31-year-old male patient who was severely injured in a motor vehicle collision. He is unresponsive and being ventilated by your partner with a bag-valve mask. How will you conduct the rapid secondary assessment on this patient?
11. Which capillary refill time is considered the upper limit of normal for an adult female?
12. Which of these assessment findings indicates that the patient has intact motor function in his lower extremities?
13. The EMT shows she understands the importance and reason for forming a general impression when she states:
14. A 26-year-old male patient has been ejected from a car after it rolled several times in the median of the interstate. As you perform the primary assessment, you find him prone and unresponsive. Your immediate action is to:
15. En route to the hospital, you start the reassessment of a 22-year-old trauma patient. You should begin this assessment by:
16. Which of these patients is considered the lowest priority for a rapid secondary exam and immediate transport?
17. The EMT would recognize which of these patients as having a normal breathing rate?
18. As you arrive by the side of a 64-year-old unresponsive female patient, you hear snoring respirations. Your immediate action would be to:
19. Which capillary refill time is considered normal for a 5-year-old child?
20. A 66-year-old female patient was involved in a vehicle rollover. While evaluating her abdomen, which of these abdominal assessment parameters should you be least concerned about?
21. You are performing a secondary assessment on an unrestrained adult passenger who was involved in a motor vehicle collision in which the car rolled end over end several times at a high rate of speed. The patient is responsive to painful stimuli and in a state of shock. When assessing the patient's head, which of these would be appropriate for you to do?
22. When performing a secondary assessment on an alert and oriented female patient with a deformed left leg, the EMT should:
23. What is the purpose of assessing the pulse on an unresponsive patient during the primary assessment?
24. While treating a patient who was assaulted by a mob of angry people in a bar, the EMT finds the patient to be confused, tachycardic, with cool skin and a poor capillary refill. Based on this information, how would you categorize this patient?
25. The patient's family states that their 16-year-old daughter has a history of asthma and has been complaining of shortness of breath for the past two days. She has been taking her metered- dose inhaler with some relief, but this morning, they found her lethargic and struggling to breathe. Your assessment reveals the patient to be responsive to verbal stimuli with an open airway and shallow respirations of 44 breaths/min. You hear minimal wheezing in both lungs. What is your immediate action in caring for this patient?

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