Fisdap Paramedic Study
Guide (Trauma) Exam
Questions and Complete
Solutions Graded A+
Denning [Date] [Course title]
,GCS scale - Answer: EVM (4, 5, 6)
Eyes: Open spontaneously, open to verbal, open to pain, no response.
Verbal: Oriented, confused, incomphrehensible words, Incomprehensible sounds, no response
Motor: Follows commands, moves to localized pain, flexion withdrawal to pain, abnormal flexion
(decordicate), abnormal extension (decerebrate), no response.
Patient with eyes that stay closed and yells profanity at you when you jaw
thrust him and pulls away when you jaw thrust him but after talks to you
in alert and oriented sentences is what GCS? - Answer: 10
Patient has eyes open to painful and is making incomprehensible sounds
and no motor activity has a GCS of? 5 - Answer: 5
What is disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)? - Answer: serious disorder whereby the proteins
that normally control clotting become inappropriately active.
Clots of blood form in blood vessels which uses up all of the bloods clotting factors
ABNORMAL BLOOD CLOTTING
You have a patient who is bleeding through their IV site and has used all of their clotting abilities. What
should you suspect? - Answer: Disseminated Intravascular coagulation
Baroreceptors are located in - Answer: aorta and carotid arteries
Baroreceptor mechanism of action - Answer: Baroreceptors sense loss of volume and stimulate the
Vaso motor center in the medulla oblongata to start vasoconstriction; hence increasing BP
, How do Baroreceptors react to initial blood loss - Answer: Increase cardiac output and stroke volume
while decreasing MAP
First degree burns characteristics - Answer: Involved the epidermis only
Red and swollen
Heals in 3-7 days
What is erythema? - Answer: redness of the skin
Second degree burn charachteristics - Answer: Partial - thickness burns
Involves dermis and epidermis
Blisters
Third degree burns - Answer: Full-thickness burns
All layers are destroyed
White and waxy or charred
Skin is incapable of self regeneration
Usually painless
What can you suspect to see with superficial partial thickness burns? - Answer: Blisters
Pulmonary embolism causes and signs and symptoms - Answer: Pulmonary embolism is a blood clot
that obstructs blood flow to the lungs
Causes: musculoskeletal injuries; especially after prolonged immobilization after injury
Cyanosis, clear lung sounds, sharp pain, VQ mismatch
Guide (Trauma) Exam
Questions and Complete
Solutions Graded A+
Denning [Date] [Course title]
,GCS scale - Answer: EVM (4, 5, 6)
Eyes: Open spontaneously, open to verbal, open to pain, no response.
Verbal: Oriented, confused, incomphrehensible words, Incomprehensible sounds, no response
Motor: Follows commands, moves to localized pain, flexion withdrawal to pain, abnormal flexion
(decordicate), abnormal extension (decerebrate), no response.
Patient with eyes that stay closed and yells profanity at you when you jaw
thrust him and pulls away when you jaw thrust him but after talks to you
in alert and oriented sentences is what GCS? - Answer: 10
Patient has eyes open to painful and is making incomprehensible sounds
and no motor activity has a GCS of? 5 - Answer: 5
What is disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)? - Answer: serious disorder whereby the proteins
that normally control clotting become inappropriately active.
Clots of blood form in blood vessels which uses up all of the bloods clotting factors
ABNORMAL BLOOD CLOTTING
You have a patient who is bleeding through their IV site and has used all of their clotting abilities. What
should you suspect? - Answer: Disseminated Intravascular coagulation
Baroreceptors are located in - Answer: aorta and carotid arteries
Baroreceptor mechanism of action - Answer: Baroreceptors sense loss of volume and stimulate the
Vaso motor center in the medulla oblongata to start vasoconstriction; hence increasing BP
, How do Baroreceptors react to initial blood loss - Answer: Increase cardiac output and stroke volume
while decreasing MAP
First degree burns characteristics - Answer: Involved the epidermis only
Red and swollen
Heals in 3-7 days
What is erythema? - Answer: redness of the skin
Second degree burn charachteristics - Answer: Partial - thickness burns
Involves dermis and epidermis
Blisters
Third degree burns - Answer: Full-thickness burns
All layers are destroyed
White and waxy or charred
Skin is incapable of self regeneration
Usually painless
What can you suspect to see with superficial partial thickness burns? - Answer: Blisters
Pulmonary embolism causes and signs and symptoms - Answer: Pulmonary embolism is a blood clot
that obstructs blood flow to the lungs
Causes: musculoskeletal injuries; especially after prolonged immobilization after injury
Cyanosis, clear lung sounds, sharp pain, VQ mismatch
