ask his wife when she noticed the symptoms. - ✔✔A 58-year-old male presents with
confusion, right-sided weakness, and slurred speech. His wife is present and is very upset.
As your partner is applying oxygen, it is MOST important for you to:
cerebellum - ✔✔Muscle control and body coordination are controlled by the:
emotion - ✔✔The anterior aspect of the cerebrum controls:
Blockage of a cerebral artery - ✔✔Which of the following MOST accurately describes the
cause of an ischemic stroke?
Neck stiffness or pain - ✔✔Which of the following findings should concern the EMT the
MOST when assessing a patient who complains of a headache?
unable to produce or understand speech. - ✔✔A patient who is experiencing aphasia is:
severe twitching of all the body's muscles. - ✔✔A generalized (tonic-clonic) seizure is
characterized by:
prolonged seizures without a return of consciousness. - ✔✔Status epilepticus is
characterized by:
Hypotension - ✔✔Which of the following conditions is NOT a common cause of seizures?
obtain a description of how the seizure developed. - ✔✔You arrive at a grocery store shortly
after a 35-year-old male stopped seizing. Your assessment reveals that he is confused and
incontinent of urine. The patient's girlfriend tells you that he has a history of seizures and
takes topiramate (Topamax). When obtaining further medical history from the girlfriend, it
is MOST important to:
, usually have an altered mental status or decreased level of consciousness. - ✔✔The
principal clinical difference between a stroke and hypoglycemia is that patients with
hypoglycemia:
A 17-year-old male with anxiety - ✔✔Which of the following patients would MOST likely
demonstrate typical signs of infection, such as a fever?
assist ventilations, perform a rapid exam, and prepare for immediate transport. - ✔✔Law
enforcement has summoned you to a nightclub, where a 22-year-old female was found
unconscious in an adjacent alley. Your primary assessment reveals that her respirations are
rapid and shallow and her pulse is rapid and weak. She is wearing a medical alert bracelet
that identifies her as an epileptic. There is an empty bottle of vodka next to the patient. You
should:
epilepsy - ✔✔A 40-year-old patient without a history of seizures experiences a generalized
(tonic-clonic) seizure. The LEAST likely cause of this seizure is:
arm drift, speech, and facial droop. - ✔✔Components of the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke
Scale include:
dimming the lights in the back of the ambulance and transporting without lights and siren. -
✔✔A 29-year-old male complains of a severe headache and nausea that has gradually
worsened over the past 12 hours. He is conscious, alert, and oriented and tells you that his
physician diagnosed him with migraine headaches. He further tells you that he has taken
numerous different medications, but none of them seem to help. His blood pressure is
132/74 mm Hg, his pulse is 110 beats/min and strong, and his respirations are 20
breaths/min. Treatment should include:
thrombolytic therapy is given within 3 hours of symptoms beginning. - ✔✔Successful
treatment of a stroke depends on whether:
12 - ✔✔Your patient answers your questions appropriately, although her eyes remain
closed the entire time. She moves each extremity on command, although her left side is
weaker than the right. You should assign a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of:
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