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NREMT Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Most severe dysrhythmia of the heart - Answer️️ -Asystole Asystole - Answer️️ -indicates no electrical activity in the heart PEA - Answer️️ -indicates some residual electrical activity within the heart, but not enough for a pulse Ventr...

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NREMT Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions

Most severe dysrhythmia of the heart - Answer✔️✔️-Asystole


Asystole - Answer✔️✔️-indicates no electrical activity in the heart


PEA - Answer✔️✔️-indicates some residual electrical activity within the heart, but

not enough for a pulse


Ventricular fibrillation - Answer✔️✔️-shockable rhythm, heart rhythm problem that

occurs when the heart beats with rapid, erratic electrical impulses. This causes

pumping chambers in your heart (the ventricles) to quiver uselessly, instead of

pumping blood.


Ventricular tachycardia - Answer✔️✔️-shockable rhythm, in which the lower

chambers of your heart (ventricles) beat very quickly because of a problem in your

heart's electrical system.

your heart may not be able to pump enough blood to your body and lungs because

the chambers are beating so fast that they don't have time to properly fill.


Cushing's triad - Answer✔️✔️-Sing of increased intracranial pressure


3 sings

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1. Brachicardia

2. hypertension

3. Altered respirations

After your paramedic partner has intubated an adult cardiac arrest patient, you are

providing ventilations as a firefighter performs chest compressions. When

ventilating the patient, you should? - Answer✔️✔️-Deliver each breathe over 1

second at a rate of 8 to 10 breathes per minute

When an advanced airway is in place, there is no pause in chest compressions to

deliver breaths.


An airway that is not completely obstructed - Answer✔️✔️-encourage to cough,

heimlich is only performed on complete obstructions


Infant respiratory rate - Answer✔️✔️-25-50


Bradycardia - Answer✔️✔️-The condition of having a slow heartbeat, defined as

under 60 beats per minute for an adult.


Hypertension - Answer✔️✔️-progressively increasing systolic blood pressure,

leading to widening pulse pressure

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Mediastinum - Answer✔️✔️-Region in mammals including the thoracic area just not

the lungs, so the heart the trachea, the thymus gland are all included in it

What are the two methods for opening the airway of an unconscious patient?


When would you use one over the other? - Answer✔️✔️-Jaw-thrust and head-tilt

chin-lift

spine injury

What is the main complication of suctioning the airway for more than 10 seconds?

- Answer✔️✔️-Could lead to hypoxia


What flow rate for a nasal cannula and when should it be used - Answer✔️✔️-Flow

rate: 1-6 lpm

When it's used: Nasal cannulas are used to deliver oxygen when a low flow, low or

medium concentration is required, and the patient is in a stable state.


When should you use a NRM and at what flow rate? - Answer✔️✔️-Use when

patent needs oxygen but can breath on their own and is getting sufficient tidal

volume and O2 percent, flow rate of 10-15 lpm


When should you use a bag-valve mask and at what flow rate? - Answer✔️✔️-Use

when patient is unconscious and not breathing adequately or isn't getting enough

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O2 or has stopped breathing, use 10-15 lpm, if patient is breathing less than 12

times a min or more than 24 use BVM and check to see if it's working by looking

at rise and fall of chest


How would you ventilate a patient who has a Stoma? - Answer✔️✔️-If there is a

tracheostomy tube in place put the BVM on that and ventilate (after taking mask

off) if no tube put a special mask over the stoma and if you don't have a special

tracheostomy stoma mask use a child or infant BVM mask

cover nose and mouth


What is the medicine inside an MDI and how does it work? - Answer✔️✔️-A

metered-dose inhaler (MDI) is a device that delivers a specific amount of

medication to the lungs, in the form of a short burst of aerosolized medicine that is

usually self-administered by the patient via inhalation.

Medications are things like Bronchodilators like albuterol


What are the indications of a MDI? - Answer✔️✔️-patients with known COPD or

asthma with acute exacerbations.

patients without known respiratory disease who exhibit expiratory wheezing.

must be prescribed

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