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Unitek EMT Final Review ExamQuestions and Answers
· Know why we do continuing education - Answer -Maintain skills and knowledge, also
stay up to date with current protocols and methods
· Know how to treat a stroke patient - Answer -Stroke is generally defined as an
interruption of blood flow to an area within the brain that results in the loss of brain
function. Two main types are ischemic and hemorrhagic. You can use FAST
assessment. Note; hypoglycemia, a postictal state, and or subdural or epidural bleeding
mimics signs of stroke.
Need to confirm but I think generally best thing we can do is quickly assess that a
patient is having a stroke, find out when the symptoms began, and get them to a stroke
center asap.
· know your first safety procedure after you arrive at a car crash - Answer -Scence
safety and size-up...
· what is the best way to stay out of court - Answer -detailed PCR
· Know who is allowed to give express consent - Answer -Adults, or emancipated minors
who are rational, competent (able to be informed about treatment consequences,
benefits, alternatives, and risks of refusal) and has descision-making capacity
· what do you do after you receive a call from dispatch - Answer -Mark down time, copy
(closed-loop) message to dispatch, and head enroute
· Know about the sympathetic response and the parasympathetic response - Answer -
Sympathetic: Fight or flight..so think pupils dilated, heart rate increases, metabolism
stops, blood vessels in muscle tissue dilate, digestion stops
Parasympathetic: rest and digest, heart slows, digestions starts, metabolism, blood
directed towards gut
know what beta one receptors affect - Answer -"You have one heart and two lungs"
Beta-One affects heart (increases heart rate)
, Beta-Two affects lungs (bronchodilates)
· Know which ventricle causes blood flow to the pulmonary circulation - Answer -Right
ventricle pumps blood through pulmonary arteries to lungs. Oxygenated blood returns to
heart via pulmonary veins.
· why do children and infants Airways become occluded easily - Answer -Because
children have relatively large heads when compared to adults, also their lare tongues
· Know about the draw sheet method and when you would use it - Answer -when
moving a paitnet from a bed to a stretecher. basically log roll them onto a sheet and use
the sheet to life them up.
· Know about pit crew CPR - Answer -Assigning providers a specific intervention
(associated with performing CPR before the call). For instance, person A does
ventilation, B sets up AED, C runs compressions etc.,
· know why you might get a false reading on a blood pressure - Answer -a blood
pressure cuff that is too samll may gve you a falsely high reading. A cuff too large may
give you a falsley low reading.
· Know what capnography does - Answer -indicates how easily, frequently, and how
much a patient is exhaling Co2. Can be usedto evaluate the effectiveness of breathing
treatments, artifical ventilation, and to confirm ET tube placement.
· Know the structures of the upper airway - Answer -Nassal air passage and
nasopharynx, mouth and oropharynx, pharynx, epiglottis
· Know about the late sign of hypoxia - Answer -cyanosis
· Know the side effects for Benadryl - Answer -dry mouth and drowsiness and may
increase intraoccular pressure
· Know the treatment and procedure for choking patients - Answer -If responsive and
consent given, abdominal thrust maneuver or Heimlich
Know which conditions you would see JVD with - Answer -tension pneumothorax,
cardiac tamponade, fluid overload, pressure in the chest
know how to do CPR on a pregnant patient - Answer -move child to the left, continue as
normal
· Know what to do if your automatic blood pressure reads high· - Answer -obtain a
manual blood pressure reading to be sure it correlates with the automatic reading
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