WEST COAST EMT BLOCK EXAM 4 QUESTIONS

WEST COAST EMT BLOCK EXAM 4 QUESTIONS

WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS LATEST 2024

A 33-year-old male sustained an abdominal evisceration to the left lower quadrant of his abdomen after he was cut with a large knife. After appropriately managing his ABCs and assessing him for other life-threatening injuries, how you should care for his wound?

Select one:

• Irrigate it with sterile water and cover it with a dry dressing.
• Carefully replace the exposed bowel into the abdomen and transport.
• Cover the exposed bowel and keep his legs in a straight position.
• Cover it with moist, sterile gauze and secure with an occlusive dressing. -

ANSWER✔✔D. Cover it with moist, sterile gauze and secure with an occlusive dressing.A 39-year-old male was struck in the head by a baseball during a game. He is confused and has slurred speech. He has a large hematoma in the center of his forehead and cannot remember the events preceding the injury. After manually stabilizing his head

and assessing his airway, you should:

Select one:

• palpate his radial pulses.
• administer high-flow oxygen.
• apply ice to the hematoma.
• perform a neurologic exam. - ANSWER✔✔B. administer high-flow oxygen.

A 56-year-old male has an incomplete avulsion to his right forearm. After controlling any

bleeding from the wound, you should: 1 / 4

Select one:

• thoroughly irrigate the wound with sterile water and cover it with a sterile dressing.
• carefully remove the avulsed flap and wrap it in a moist, sterile trauma dressing.
• replace the avulsed flap to its original position and cover it with a sterile dressing.
• carefully probe the wound to determine if the bleeding is venous or arterial. -

ANSWER✔✔C. replace the avulsed flap to its original position and cover it with a sterile dressing.

A burn that is characterized by redness and pain is classified as a:

Select one:

• second-degree burn.
• partial-thickness burn.
• full-thickness burn.
• superficial burn. - ANSWER✔✔D. superficial burn.

A closed soft-tissue injury characterized by swelling and ecchymosis is called a(n):

Select one:

• contusion.
• crush injury.
• abrasion.
• hematoma. - ANSWER✔✔A. contusion.

An 8-year-old male was bitten by a stray dog. He has a large laceration to the back of his left hand, which your partner covered with a sterile dressing and bandage. In

addition to transporting the child to the hospital, you should:

Select one: 2 / 4

• ask the child's father to try to locate the dog.
• advise the child that he will need rabies shots.
• report the incident to the appropriate authorities.
• administer oxygen via a nonrebreathing mask. - ANSWER✔✔C. report the incident

to the appropriate authorities As you approach a young male who was involved in an industrial accident, you note that his eyes are closed and that he is not moving. You can see several large contusions to his arms, a laceration to his forehead with minimal bleeding, and a closed deformity to

his right leg. You should:

Select one:

• assess his pulse for rate, regularity, and quality.
• perform an immediate head-to-toe assessment.
• open his airway and assess his breathing status.
• apply high-flow oxygen and assess his injuries. - ANSWER✔✔C. open his airway

and assess his breathing status.Burns to pediatric patients are generally considered more serious than burns to adults

because:

Select one:

• most burns in children are the result of child abuse.
• pediatric patients have more surface area relative to total body mass.
• pediatric patients have a proportionately larger volume of blood.
• pediatric patients are more prone to hyperthermia. - ANSWER✔✔B. pediatric

patients have more surface area relative to total body mass. 3 / 4

During your assessment of a patient who was shot in the abdomen, you notice a large entrance wound with multiple small puncture wounds surrounding it. This wound pattern

is MOST consistent with a:

Select one:

• .22-caliber pistol.
• shotgun.
• handgun.
• .357 magnum. - ANSWER✔✔B. shotgun.

In addition to severe bleeding, the MOST life-threatening complication associated with

an open neck injury is:

Select one:

• an air embolism.
• a spinal fracture.
• an ischemic stroke.
• nerve fiber damage. - ANSWER✔✔A. an air embolism.

In which of the following patients should you remove an impaled object?

Select one:

• An apneic patient with a shard of glass impaled in the abdomen
• A conscious and alert patient with a fishhook impaled in the eye
• A pulseless and apneic patient with a knife impaled in the back
• A semiconscious patient with an ice pick impaled in the chest - ANSWER✔✔C. A

pulseless and apneic patient with a knife impaled in the back The sebaceous glands produce sebum, a material that:

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