CDH Paramedic Entrance Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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CDH Paramedic Entrance Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
What are the normal respirations of adults? Infants? - answer12-20 and 20-40
What is the purpose of surfactant? - answerReduces surface tension in alveoli (lubricant)
What is the normal stimulus to breathe in a healthy patient? - answer...
CDH Paramedic Entrance Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
What are the normal respirations of adults? Infants? - answer✔12-20 and 20-40
What is the purpose of surfactant? - answer✔Reduces surface tension in alveoli (lubricant)
What is the normal stimulus to breathe in a healthy patient? - answer✔Carbonic drive
What is a pink puffer? Blue Bloater? - answer✔A COPD Patient with Emphysema. A COPD
Patient with Chronic Bronchitis
What causes inhalation? - answer✔Diaphragm and Intercostal muscles contract
Where are the different lung sounds located? (Upper, Lower Airway) What causes them? (Fluid,
Constriction, Rubbing) - answer✔...
What is agonal breathing? - answer✔Abnormal breathing pattern characterized by gasping and
or labored breathing.
What is Cheyne-Stokes respirations? - answer✔Abnormal Respirations characterized by
progressively deeper and sometimes faster breathing, gradually decreases then stops briefly.
What is the difference between Ventilation and Respiration? - answer✔Ventilation -
Mechanical process behind breathing.
Respiration - Cellular process associated with breathing.
What is Diffusion and where does it occur in the lungs? - answer✔Diffusion is the movement
of particles from an area of high concentration to an area low concentration. It occurs in the
alveoli.
Why does suctioning cause a decrease in HR? - answer✔Vagal Nerve Stimulation resulting in
Bradycardia
What physically happens with pulmonary edema? - answer✔Pulmonary edema is an abnormal
buildup of fluid in the air sacs of the lungs, which leads to shortness of breath.
What is the pathophysiology of Emphysema? - answer✔Decreased Pulmonary elastic recoil.
Compression results and limits airflow. Additionally alveolar walls are destroyed resulting in a
lower quality of perfusion.
What role in breathing does the diaphragm have? - answer✔The diaphragm controls the
increase or decrease in the pleural cavity. When the diaphragm relaxes air is drawn into the
lungs, when the diaphragm contracts air is expelled from the lungs.
What is unique about the diaphragm? - answer✔It is a unique muscle because it is two muscles
working synchronously together.
What is a late sign of hypoxia? - answer✔Cyanosis
What is consolidation in a pneumonia patient? - answer✔A region of lung tissue that has filled
with liquid.
How does Carbon Monoxide affect oxygen in the body? - answer✔Carbon monoxide attaches
to the blood easier than oxygen, therefore Carbon monoxide "robs" the body of oxygen.
What is inhalation? - answer✔Inhalation is the process of CO2 being removed from the body
caused by a decrease in pleural pressure facilitated by the contraction of the diaphragm.
What is exhalation? - answer✔Exhalation is the process of O2 being introduced into the body
caused by an increase in pleural pressure facilitated by the relaxation of the diaphragm.
What is automaticity? - answer✔The ability to do things without occupying the mind "think
force of habit"
What is diastole? - answer✔The period of time when the heart refills with blood. It is the
lowest pressure within the entire arterial blood stream.
What is systole? - answer✔The force that drives blood out of the heart. It represents the force
that the heart is producing during a single contraction.
What is the buildup of fluid in the pericardial sac called? - answer✔Pericardial effusion
Blood pressure by palpation measures what? - answer✔It measures the systolic blood pressure
only.
How is blood pressure by palpation done? - answer✔Attach sphygmometer, palpate radial
pulse, inflate sphygmometer until radial pulse is no longer palpable, inflate sphygmometer +30
mmHg, deflate sphygmometer slowly until radial pulse is palpable again, record as xx/P
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