Emt aaos 2025 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

AAOS EMT (Chapter 10) Patient Assessment Questions and Correct Solutions 2024 Accessory Muscles - Answer -The secondary muscles of respiration. They include the neck muscles (sternocleidomastoids), the chest pectorals major muscles, and the abdominal muscles. Altered Mental Status - Answer -A change in the way a person thinks and behaves that may signal disease in the central nervous system or elsewhere in the body. Auscultate - Answer -To listen to sounds within an organ with a stethoscop...

AAOS EMT Eleventh Edition Chapter 6 The Human Body with Verified Solutions 2024 The ____________ is a muscular dome that forms the inferior boundary of the thorax, separating the thorax from the abdomen. - Answer -diaphragm Bile is produced by the liver and concentrated and stored in the: - Answer -gallbladder. The ___________ is made up of the maxilla and zygoma, as well as the frontal bone of the cranium. - Answer -orbit The brain connects to the spinal cord through a large opening at t...

EMT Chapter 10 AAOS Eleventh Edition with Verified Solutions 2024 aerobic metabolism - Answer -Metabolism that can proceed only in the presence of oxygen. agonal gasps - Answer -Occasional, gasping breaths that occur after the heart has stopped. airway - Answer -The upper airway tract or the passage above the larynx, which includes the nose, mouth, and throat. alveolar minute volume - Answer -The volume of air moved through the lungs in 1 minute minus the dead space; calculated by multipl...

AAOS Chapter 2 EMT Eleventh Edition - Workforce Safety and Wellness Questions and Correct Solutions 2024 Vector-borne transmission of an infectious organism occurs via: - Answer -animals or insects. Which of the following statements regarding the different stages of the grieving process is correct? - Answer -The stages of the grieving process may occur simultaneously. Common factors that influence how a patient reacts to the stress of an illness or injury include all of the following, EXC...

EMT AAOS Section 7 Trauma Test Questions and Solutions If direct pressure with a sterile dressing fails to immediately stop severe bleeding from an extremity, you should apply: A. additional sterile dressings. B. a splint and elevate the extremity. C. a tourniquet proximal to the injury. D. digital pressure to a proximal artery. - Answer -a tourniquet proximal to the injury. 2. A 22-year-old male was kicked in the abdomen multiple times during an attack by a gang. He is conscious but re...

Chapter 15 AAOS EMT Questions and Verified Solutions 2024 pulmonary embolism - Answer -blood clot lodged in a pulmonary artery Oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange takes place here - Answer -alveoli When is PASTE used? - Answer -Respiratory distress calls If carbon dioxide drops too low how does a person breath? - Answer -slower and less deeply If carbon dioxide in the arterial blood rises above normal, how does the patient breathe? - Answer - Rapidly and deeply Inflammation and swelling i...

AAOS EMT Chapter 1 - EMS Systems Questions and Correct Solutions 2024 advanced EMT (AEMT) - Answer -An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications. advanced life support (ALS) - Answer -Advanced lifesaving procedures. American with Disabilities Act (ADA) - Answer -Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect individuals with disabilities against discrimination. autom...

EMT Chapter 11 AAOS Eleventh Edition with Verified Solutions 2024 absorption - Answer -The process by which medications travel through body tissues until they reach the bloodstream. action - Answer -The therapeutic effect of a medication on the body. activated charcoal - Answer -An oral medication that binds and adsorbs ingested toxins in the gastrointestinal tract for treatment of some poisonings and medication overdoses. It's ground into a very fine powder that provides the greatest po...

AAOS EMT (Chapter 22) Toxicology Questions and Correct Solutions 2024 Addiction - Answer -A state of overwhelming obsession or physical need to continue the use of a substance. Antidote - Answer -A substance that is used to neutralize or counteract a poison. Delirium Tremens (DTs) - Answer -A severe withdrawal syndrome seen in alcoholics who are deprived of ethyl alcohol; characterized by restlessness, fever, sweating, disorientation, agitation, and seizures; can be fatal if untreated. E...

EMT Basic - AAOS - Chapter 1 Questions and Verified Solutions 2024 advanced EMT (AEMT) - Answer -An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications advanced life support (ALS) - Answer -Advanced lifesaving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the EMT Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) - Answer -Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect individuals wi...