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West Coast EMT Block 3 Study Guide

Exam Questions with Complete

Solutions


what is the function of the liver - ✔✔Removing waste created by digestion

produce bile

where is the liver located - ✔✔right upper quadrant

what is the function of the pancreas - ✔✔Secretes inslin and glucagon

hormones and makes pancreatic juices

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

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

where is the spleen located - ✔✔LUQ

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

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

what are the three motor vehicle collisions - ✔✔1. car against another car

2. passenger against interior of car

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3. passenger's organs against solid structures of body

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

what are arterioles - ✔✔Arterioles are the smallest arteries

what are capillaries - ✔✔Capillaries are the exchange vessels. They are

microscopic and have only one wall—tunica intima—allowing substances to

pass through quickly.

what are venules - ✔✔smallest veins

bones of the face - ✔✔mandible

maxillae

nasal bone

palatine bone and nasal conchae

vomer

zygomatic bone

lacrimal bone

hyoid bone

Where is CSF produced? - ✔✔choroid plexus

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

spinal cord

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

diaphragm



C3-C5

what is flail chest - ✔✔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? - ✔✔compression of the heart by an

accumulation of fluid in the pericardial sac

S/S of a Cardiac tamponade - ✔✔- Chest pain

- Dsypnea

- Beck's Triad (Decreased BP, Muffled heart sounds, JVD)

- Kussmaul sign

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

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

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

surfaces of the joint

What is Biot's respiration? - ✔✔Biot's respirations are rapid, deep breathing

with abrupt pauses between each breath and an equal depth to each

breath.

What is epistaxis and what causes it? - ✔✔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 - ✔✔pain

paralysis

paresthesias - burning or pricking

pulselessness

pallor

pressure

what is the limbic system? - ✔✔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 - ✔✔presence of blood in the urine

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