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EMT-B NC STATE EXAM NEWEST 2024 -2025 ACTUAL
EXAM COMPLETE 350 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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You're called to a private residence for a 72-year-old male who has an altered mental status. Vital signs are BP: 102/58, HR: 104, RR: 6/min,
SpO2: 88%. What should be your first intervention?
Place an appropriately sized NPA
Place the patient in spinal precautions
Check the patient's temperature
Ventilate the patient with a BVM - ANSWER- Place an appropriately sized NPA
Rationale: (First things first. If you're going to ventilate the patient
using a BVM you need to first place an appropriately sized OPA or NPA or both.)
Your patient has been pulled from a fire. She has decreased tidal volume. Decreased tidal volume can be evident by?
Shallow respirations 1 / 4
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Coughing
Decreased respiration rate
Deep respirations - ANSWER- Shallow respirations
A lower airway obstruction occurs in what anatomical structure(s)?
Bronchioles
Trachea
Hypopharynx
Oropharynx - ANSWER- Bronchioles
What should your first action be when treating a conscious 40-year-old male with rapid respirations?
Apply 100% oxygen
Two slow breaths via BVM 2 / 4
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Assess the regularity and quality of breathing
Insert an airway adjunct - ANSWER- Apply 100% oxygen
You arrive on scene at the local high school football practice, where a 16-year-old male has gone unconscious. His friend states that he uses an inhaler normally, but the patient had told him that it ran out of medication. You know that this patient suffers from?
Bronchoconstriction
Emphysema
Tracheal Deviation
Bronchodilation - ANSWER- Bronchoconstriction
When a person hyperventilates, their minute volume?
Decreases, due to decreased air volume reaching the alveoli
Increases, due to increased air volume reaching the trachea and bronchi
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Increases, due to increased air volume reaching the alveoli
Decreases, due to decreased air volume reaching the trachea and bronchi
- ANSWER- Decreases, due to decreased air volume reaching the
alveoli
Which of the following is not an anatomically correct difference between adult and pediatric patients?
The trachea is more flexible in adults
The primary cause of cardiac arrest in children is uncorrected respiratory issues
Infant's tongues take up proportionally greater space in the mouth than adults
Pediatric structures are smaller and more easily obstructed - ANSWER- The trachea is more flexible in adults
You are obtaining medical history from an 82-year-old male patient at a care home. Care home staff called 911 after the patient reported having difficulty breathing and his oxygen saturations were dropping despite being on home oxygen. The patient tells you he has atrial fibrillation and COPD. He could have any of the following respiratory diseases, except?
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