EMTB9e: Online Chapter Pretests

Online Chapter Pretests

Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: When assessing a patient, you may observe signs including the following except:
	A: The patient has a swollen ankle.
	B: The patient's forehead has beads of sweat.
	C: The patient complains of pain in the ankle.
	D: The patient has a pulse in his foot.

2: During a SAMPLE history, the "P" stands for:
	A: position of comfort.
	B: pertinent past history.
	C: provocation.
	D: penicillin.

3: If a patient is grunting with each breath and using muscles near her neck to help her breath, her breathing could be characterized as:
	A: normal breathing.
	B: quality breathing.
	C: labored breathing.
	D: tracheal breathing.

4: A pulse oximeter may provide an inaccurate reading if the patient has been exposed to:
	A: cold weather.
	B: carbon monoxide.
	C: cyanide gas.
	D: all of the above.

5: During your assessment of a 3-month-old infant, you find a pulse rate of 170 beats/min. That rate could be described as:
	A: bradycardia.
	B: supercardia.
	C: normal.
	D: tachycardia.

6: A 78-year-old woman's skin is bluish around the lips and nailbeds, and her breathing is labored. She has a condition called:
	A: cyanosis.
	B: conjunctiva.
	C: sclera.
	D: jaundice.

7: The diastolic pressure is a measurement of the pressure in the:
	A: veins caused by relaxation of the heart.
	B: lungs during an exhalation.
	C: arteries during relaxation of the heart.
	D: arteries during contraction of the heart.

8: When using the palpation method to obtain a blood pressure, an EMT-B:
	A: must use a stethoscope.
	B: has to feel the brachial pulse when releasing the pressure in the cuff.
	C: should apply the blood pressure cuff upside down.
	D: will not be able to obtain a diastolic reading.

9: Using the AVPU scale, a patient who responds by groaning when you pinch his ear is:
	A: awake and alert.
	B: responsive to verbal stimuli.
	C: responsive to pain.
	D: unresponsive.

10: An unconscious patient with unequally sized pupils should be assumed to have:
	A: diabetes.
	B: a rapid pulse rate.
	C: decreased brain function.
	D: an artificial eye.

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