Medical Tests NREMT Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Medical Tests NREMT Online Questions & Answers

• Question 281:

  What is the first step you should take when you start to size up a scene?

  A. Find out how many patients you need to treat.
  B. Determine the safety of the scene.
  C. Do a Body Substance Isolation (BSI).
  D. Determine the mechanism of injury.
  C. Do a Body Substance Isolation (BSI).

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• Question 282:

  While lifting a patient it is important to:

  A. Keep your back straight and use your legs.
  B. Bend at the waist and let your back do the work.
  C. Keep the center of gravity as far from your body as possible.
  D. Use a slight twisting motion of the torso to increase leverage.
  A. Keep your back straight and use your legs.

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• Question 283:

  What does PMS stand for during your assessment of a patient's lower extremity?

  A. Pedial, Motion, Sensation
  B. Pain, Motion, Severity
  C. Pulse, Motor function, Sensation
  D. Pulse, Motor sensation, Severity
  C. Pulse, Motor function, Sensation

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  Explanation/Reference:

  PMS stands for Pulse, Motor function, Sensation. It is especially to asses for PMS after splinting an extremity.

• Question 284:

  You must follow protocol when using the radio in your emergency vehicle. Which of the following is NOT required by this protocol?

  A. Press the push to talk button and wait two seconds for the carrier frequency to establish the connection.
  B. Monitor the frequency for several seconds to be certain it is not currently in use.
  C. Hold the mike approximately two inches from your mouth.
  D. Transmit all pertinent information about the patient to the hospital using coded language.
  D. Transmit all pertinent information about the patient to the hospital using coded language.

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• Question 285:

  A patient's vital signs include his or her capillary refill time and breath sounds.

  A. True
  B. False
  A. True

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• Question 286:

  Your neuro assessment of an unresponsive patient reveals pin point pupils. What is your primary field diagnosis?

  A. Beta blocker overdose
  B. Insulin overdose
  C. Aspirin
  D. Narcotic
  D. Narcotic

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Narcotics will cause pupils to constrict making them the classic pin point. All of the other medications mentioned here does not affect the pupils, they may very well cause an altered mental status.

• Question 287:

  While interviewing a patient with a complaint of an allergic reaction, your partner asks, "What is new and different?" Most patients with an allergy must be exposed to the allergen at some point. What is the process called?

  A. Allergic reaction
  B. Anaphylaxis
  C. Sensitization
  D. Anaphylactic reaction
  C. Sensitization

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Sensitization is the process where an antigen enters the body and there is an immune response where antibodies are produced to protect the organism from an invader. The antibodies help protect the patient from developing an over reaction towards the antigen which will then become an anaphylactic reaction. Anaphylactic reaction is such a massive response against a first time exposure to an antigen this reaction looks like a full on anaphylaxis, the differential is no prior sensitization.

• Question 288:

  The first step in artificial ventilation with a bagvalve-mask unit in patients with no suspected trauma is to:

  A. Position the mask correctly on the face using both hands.
  B. Place the patient's head in a hyperextended, sniffing position.
  C. Insert an airway adjunct and select the correct mask size.
  D. Have an assistant squeeze the bag until the patient's chest rises.
  B. Place the patient's head in a hyperextended, sniffing position.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The correct order of steps would be b, c, a, d.

• Question 289:

  You are dispatched to a 50-year old male patient who is having cardiac issues. Which of the following will occur if the patients heart is beating too fast, or too slow?

  A. He will begin to vomit
  B. He may become unconscious
  C. He will have a seizure
  D. He will begin to get very agitated
  B. He may become unconscious

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  Explanation/Reference:

  If this patients becomes to bradycardic or tachicardic, they may go unconscious due to inadequate perfusion

• Question 290:

  Which could be a reason that acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) was not administered to a patient in a cardiovascular emergency?

  A. stomach ulcer
  B. all of these
  C. documented allergy
  D. bleeding condition
  C. documented allergy

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