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West Coast EMT Block 3 Study Guide Exam
With Verified Questions and Answers

What is the function of the liver - answer✔✔Removing waste created by digestion
produce bile

where is the liver located - answer✔✔right upper quadrant

what is the function of the pancreas - answer✔✔Secretes inslin and glucagon hormones and
makes pancreatic juices

where is the pancreas located - answer✔✔posterior to the stomach

what is the function of the spleen - answer✔✔filter blood and help fight infections

where is the spleen located - answer✔✔LUQ

what is the function of the gallbladder - answer✔✔stores and concentrates bile

Where is the gallbladder located? - answer✔✔under the liver, RUQ

what are the three motor vehicle collisions - answer✔✔1. car against another car
2. passenger against interior of car
3. passenger's organs against solid structures of body

what are arteries - answer✔✔Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart

what are arterioles - answer✔✔Arterioles are the smallest arteries

what are capillaries - answer✔✔Capillaries are the exchange vessels. They are microscopic and
have only one wall—tunica intima—allowing substances to pass through quickly.

what are venules - answer✔✔smallest veins

bones of the face - answer✔✔mandible
maxillae
nasal bone

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palatine bone and nasal conchae
vomer
zygomatic bone
lacrimal bone
hyoid bone

Where is CSF produced? - answer✔✔choroid plexus

what is the function of CSF? - answer✔✔protects and nourishes the brain and spinal cord

what is the phrenic nerve? - answer✔✔major motor and sensory nerve of the diaphragm


C3-C5

what is flail chest - answer✔✔A fracture of two or more sites on two or more adjacent ribs, or
when rib fractures produce a free-floating sternum.


Flail segments may not be clinically evident in the first several hours after injury b/c of muscle
spasms that cause splinting. After positive pressure initiated, paradoxical chest wall movement
ceases.

What is cardiac tamponade? - answer✔✔compression of the heart by an accumulation of fluid in
the pericardial sac

S/S of a Cardiac tamponade - answer✔✔- Chest pain
- Dsypnea
- Beck's Triad (Decreased BP, Muffled heart sounds, JVD)
- Kussmaul sign

what is a sprain? - answer✔✔stretching or tearing of ligaments

what is a strain? - answer✔✔stretching or tearing of muscle or tendon

what is a dislocation? - answer✔✔total loss of congruity -- between the articular surfaces of the
joint

What is Biot's respiration? - answer✔✔Biot's respirations are rapid, deep breathing with abrupt
pauses between each breath and an equal depth to each breath.

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What is epistaxis and what causes it? - answer✔✔loss of blood through the nose (nosebleed);
usually caused by injury either external or internal - such as blow to nose, nose picking or
foreign body insertion

6 "P's" of musculoskeletal injury - answer✔✔pain
paralysis
paresthesias - burning or pricking
pulselessness
pallor
pressure

what is the limbic system? - answer✔✔a complex system of nerves and networks in the brain,
involving several areas near the edge of the cortex concerned with instinct and mood. It controls
the basic emotions (fear, pleasure, anger) and drives (hunger, sex, dominance, care of offspring).

hematuria - answer✔✔presence of blood in the urine

hemoptysis - answer✔✔coughing/spitting up blood

hematocrit - answer✔✔The percent of the volume of whole blood that is composed of red blood
cells as determined by separation of red blood cells from the plasma usually by centrifugation.

hemoglobin - answer✔✔iron-containing protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen for
delivery to cells

hematoma - answer✔✔a solid swelling of clotted blood within the tissues.

Ecchymosis - answer✔✔bruising

what is the most commonly fractured bone? - answer✔✔clavicle

what is atrophy? - answer✔✔decrease in cell size

what are ligaments? - answer✔✔Connect bone to bone

what are tendons? - answer✔✔Connect muscle to bone

what is cartilage? - answer✔✔It is a type of flexible connective tissue

What is articular cartilage? - answer✔✔smooth, white tissue that covers the ends of bones where
they come together to form joints

cardiac muscle - answer✔✔Involuntary muscle tissue found only in the heart.

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