Medical Obstetrics Gynaecology
NREMT Exam Questions w ith
Correct Answ ers Latest Update
(2024/2025)
1. A 41 year old woman is in active labour and has called 911.
She has reported that she is all alone at her house and that
the baby's arm is sticking out of the vagina. What should
you be prepared to do with this patient? - ANS ✅Place
patient into a knee to chest position and rapid transport
Rationale: Allow gravity to assist you in keeping the child in the canal
until definitive care. This can be best done by putting the patient into
a knee to chest position.
2. A baby who is born butt first is called? - ANS ✅Breech
Rationale: Breech babies may be born feet or butt first. Although they
may still be called Ryan, it is not generally the term used to describe a
birth presentation.
3. A child has just had a seizure and is lying still in his parent's
arms. This state is known as? - ANS ✅Postictal
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Rationale: The state at the end of a seizure where the patient is no
longer having active seizures is called postictal.
4. A man has called 911 and reported that his wife has just
given birth to a baby girl at home. The delivery went
normally, except during the delivery of the placenta the
woman began to bleed heavily. What would be the best
choice of action when you arrive on scene? - ANS
✅Massage the patient's uterus
Rationale: Massaging the uterus may help to stop the bleeding during
this emergency. The placenta should deliver normally, and you would
not put a compression dressing on the vagina. Giving high flow O2
and rapid transport would be appropriate, however, it would not be
done until addressing the life threat of the bleeding.
5. Acute kidney failure may be caused by all of the following
except: - ANS ✅Cystitis
6. All of the following are aspects of the proper and correct use
of an auto injection system except: - ANS ✅clothing removal
7. All of the following are correct for the pathophysiology of
sickle cell except: - ANS ✅Red blood cells contain
haemoglobin A
Rationale: The pathophysiology of sickle cell includes: Inherited,
affects red blood cells, predominantly found in African-Americans,
and red blood cells contain haemoglobin S.
Medical Obstetrics Gynaecology NREMT Exam
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