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**An EMS provider is treating a patient who has a head injury resulting from a blow by a baseball
bat. What other problem are likely to be present?
- Hypothermia
- Hypertensive shock due to blood loss
- Spinal injuries
- Lung collapse - ✔✔Spinal injuries
In a HEALTHY person, respiration is controlled by level
- carbon dioxide
- blood sugar
- oxygen
- carbon monoxide - ✔✔carbon dioxide
- normal stimulus to breathe: HIGH CO2
could be oxygen if talking ab process of repsiration
In conducting the Primary Assessment of a conscious patient, the EMS provider must attend to
the patient's emergency needs in the order of: - ✔✔Respiration, Pulse, Bleeding
,A patient with acute respiratory distress requiring oxygen therapy is LEAST likely to exhibit:
- a slow pulse rate
- anxiety
- nasal flaring
- intercostal muscle retractions - ✔✔a slow pulse rate
After you have determined that the scene is safe, the FIRST step in caring for a patient is to:
- check for a carotid pulse
- open the airway
- determine unresponsiveness
- check for breathing - ✔✔Determine
unresponsiveness (GEN IMP, LOC, CC)
**During the Prim. Assessment, you are assessing a conscious trauma patient complaining loudly of pain
in the leg, you should:
- begin to obtain the history
- assess the leg immediately
- discontinue the Primary Assessment and start the Detailed Physical Examination
- continue with your Primary Assessment - ✔✔Continue with Primary Assessment
Which of the following measures is NOT part of the Primary Assessment of an accident victim?
- assessing the pulse quality
- manual stabilization of the cervical spine
, - suctioning of the airway
- taking patient history - ✔✔Taking patient history
Any physical exam of a patient should begin with
- inspection
- manipulation
- stabilization
- palpation - ✔✔inspection
the "A" in the mnemonic AVPU stands for for - ✔✔ALERT
A 65-yr old male wa involve in a two motor vehicle crash. Upon examination, he complains of chest pain
when breathing and tenderness of the sternum. Your INITIAL care should include:
- stabilizing the sternum
- positioning the patient on his side
- administering high-concentration oxygen
- administering the patient's prescribed nitroglycerin - ✔✔Administering high-conc oxygen
*When spinal injuries are suspected, the EMS provider should
FIRST a hyperextend the neck to secure the airway b determine the
extent of the paralysis
c apply an extrication collar
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