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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. Which of these patients would the EMT identify as having the most adequate breathing, free from any respiratory distress?
2. At a nursing home, you find an elderly patient extremely short of breath. To best determine whether this patient is cyanotic, you should:
3. As you arrive by the side of a 64-year-old unresponsive female patient, you hear snoring respirations. Your immediate action would be to:
4. When you are caring for a patient with either a medical complaint or a traumatic injury, you should typically perform the reassessment:
5. As you perform the primary assessment on an unresponsive patient, you discover vomitus in her airway. What should you do next?
6. Which characteristic regarding breathing rates must the EMT remember when assessing the respirations of a pediatric patient?
7. Which capillary refill time is considered normal for a 5-year-old child?
8. When assessing a critically injured patient, the EMT should detect which of these injuries or conditions when performing the secondary assessment?
9. When you assess the lower back of an elderly patient who fell, he grimaces and tells you that it hurts when you palpate the injury site. The perception by the patient of increased pain upon palpation of an injured site is known as:
10. The EMT recognizes that the best source of information for a responsive medical patient with a specific chief complaint and no known medical history is:
11. When performing the secondary assessment, the EMT would likely find which of these injuries first?
12. Information concerning the extent of injury can be related to findings of the complete head- to-toe exam by:
13. You are by the side of a patient who complains of shortness of breath and has a history of heart problems, including congestive heart failure (CHF). When assessing the airway, which of these observations best indicates that it is still patent?
14. When assessing a sick or injured patient, which of these indicates the appropriate order in which this assessment should occur?
15. Near the end of a workday, a construction worker fell 10 feet from scaffolding, landing on his head and left shoulder. He is found to be spontaneously alert, but confused. His airway is open and his breathing is adequate. Coworkers state that he was unresponsive for a period of 2 minutes following the fall and is on medications for depression and heart problems. Based on this information, the EMT should initially classify him as which kind of patient?
16. 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?
17. An alert and oriented 69-year-old female patient complains of low, right-sided abdominal pain. She describes the pain as 'knife-like' and states that it started suddenly 1 hour ago. Her only medical history is hypertension, for which she takes the medication Lisinopril. Which of these assessment findings shows that the EMT is appropriately assessing this patient given the chief complaint?
18. A 44-year-old male patient was cutting limbs from high in a tree when he fell. He is found to be unresponsive with snoring respirations. His breathing is inadequate at a rate of 8 breaths/min and his carotid pulse is weak and difficult to locate. Following the primary assessment and initial management of life threats, which of these actions will the EMT complete while performing the secondary assessment?
19. The EMT is using the OPQRST mnemonic to gather information from a patient with abdominal pain. Which of these patient statements is a response to the 'P' component of this memory aid?
20. 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:
21. When performing a secondary assessment on an alert and oriented female patient with a deformed left leg, the EMT should:
22. What does the 'S' in SAMPLE stand for?
23. When assessing the chest of a patient who was shot multiple times, you find a gunshot wound to the third intercostal space on the left lateral chest. What should you do immediately?
24. You are assessing a 4-year-old patient whose panicked mother states that she cannot wake him. The child is breathing but his eyes are closed. To best determine the child's mental status, you should first:
25. 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:

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