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West Coast EMT Block 2 Exam Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass) What is the process for electrical impulses of the heart? - ️️ - SA node (the heart's pacemaker) - Upper atrias contract - AV node sends impluses to ventricles - ventricles contract What are the different layers of bl...

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West Coast EMT Block 2 Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)

What is the process for electrical impulses of the heart? - ✔️✔️- SA node (the heart's

pacemaker)


- Upper atrias contract


- AV node sends impluses to ventricles


- ventricles contract


What are the different layers of blood vessels and what are the functions? - ✔️✔️Tunica

adventitia (outermost) - prevents collapse of blood vessel and provides protection


Tunica media (middle)


Tunica intima (innermost)


Where is the temporal pulse? - ✔️✔️In front of ear on the temple


Where is the carotid pulse? - ✔️✔️side of neck


Where is the radial pulse? - ✔️✔️Thumb side of wrist


Where is the brachial pulse? - ✔️✔️inside of elbow. Check pulse here for patients under 1

year of age.



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where is the apical pulse? - ✔️✔️5th intercostal space, use a stethoscope to hear.


where is the femoral pulse? - ✔️✔️groin area


where is the popliteal pulse? - ✔️✔️behind the knee


where is the pedal pulse? - ✔️✔️top of foot


what is ventilation? - ✔️✔️movement of air in and out of the lungs


what is inhalation? - ✔️✔️Muscular Part of breathing, diaphragm and intercostal muscles

contract. Moving air into the lungs.


what is exhalation? - ✔️✔️A passive process during which the lungs recoil as the

respiratory muscles relax and the thorax decreases in size. Air moves out of lungs.


what is respiration? - ✔️✔️The process of transferring energy from glucose which goes

on in every cell. Oxygen/CO2 moving in and out of the cells/lungs


What is negative pressure breathing? - ✔️✔️Muscle contractions expand lungs, lowering

air pressure inside and allow air to be pulled into lungs.


what is the uvula? - ✔️✔️free projection hanging down from the middle of the soft palate.

Prevents food from entering the nasal cavity.


What is the epiglottis and what does it do? - ✔️✔️It is a flap of skin that is at the base of

the tongue.


it opens and closes during breathing, preventing food from entering the airways.



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What is the vallecula? - ✔️✔️An anatomic space or "pocket" located between the base of

the tongue and the epiglottis. It is an important landmark for endotracheal intubation.


What is the pharynx? - ✔️✔️back of throat behind the nose and mouth


What does the upper airway consist of? - ✔️✔️Nose, mouth, jaw, oral cavity, pharynx,

and larynx. *Ends at the larynx*


what does the lower airway consist of? - ✔️✔️The trachea, the lungs, the bronchus

(larger airways), the bronchiles (smaller airway), and finally the alveoli


what is the jugular notch (sternal notch)? - ✔️✔️concave upper border of the manubrium


What is the xiphoid process? - ✔️✔️sword-shaped lower tip of the sternum


Parts of spine from top to bottom - ✔️✔️C1 (atlas)


C2 (axis)


C3-C7


T1-T12


L1-L5


Sacral (1-5 fused)


Cocyx (1-4 fused)


what are the three types of muscles? - ✔️✔️skeletal (voluntary), smooth and cardiac

(involuntary)


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anatomy of lungs - ✔️✔️right lung has three lobes and is shorter;left has two and is

longer


occipital bone - ✔️✔️Bone that protrudes at the base of the skull


parietal bone - ✔️✔️either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and

forming the top and sides of the cranium


frontal bone - ✔️✔️bone that forms the forehead


temporal bone - ✔️✔️bone that forms parts of the side of the skull and floor of the cranial

activity. There is a right and left temporal bone.


mandible - ✔️✔️lower jaw bone


foramen magnum - ✔️✔️A large opening at the base of the skull through which the brain

connects to the spinal cord.


maxilla bone - ✔️✔️upper jaw bone


Zygomatic bone - ✔️✔️cheek bone


sphenoid bone - ✔️✔️Bone that joins all of the bones of the cranium together


How does blood flow through the heart? - ✔️✔️Inferior and superior vena cava (1) dump

blood into the right atrium (2)


Right ventricle (3)




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