Your patient has a history of epilepsy, has had a seizure and has not recovered the way he normally does,
according to his family. While assessing this unresponsive patient he suffers a second seizure what is this
condition?
Expansion of the stomach caused by too forceful ventilation pressures, which causes excess air to enter
the stomach instead of the lungs.
Which of the following patients would be appropriate for air medical transport from your scene?
Slow (3-4 per minute), irregular inspirations followed by irregular pauses, sometimes describes as
gasping, labored breathing, accompanied by strange vocalizations are known as?
Which of the following medications would you expect to find a patient who is being treated for peptic ulcer
disease to be taking?
You are called to the scene of a car versus tree accident. Upon arrival, you find the car to be engulfed in
flames, with fire showing from underneath the hood and inside the passenger compartment. You can see
that the operator of this vehicle is unconscious and slumped over the steering wheel. Which of the
following is your first priority?
You have a patient that has suffered frostbite to his fingers. How should you prepare the patient's fingers
for transport?
To create negative pressure in the thorax (chest cavity) the diaphragm contracts and moves
_____________ which expands the volume of the thorax allowing air to rush into the lungs.
A danger of using a rigid suction catheter with infants and young children is that stimulating the back of
the throat can:
Your 16 year trauma patient has what appears to be a mid-shaft femur fracture, you notice that there is a
laceration directly over the suspected fracture. Bleeding is controlled, what type of fracture would this be?
Which of the following substances is the most common cause of anaphylaxis?
"You are planning a continuing education seminar with your service's medical director. After you both
decide that behavioral emergencies need to be addressed, he asks you to define normal behavior. You
would reply: "
Statements from patients are used as assessment tools, which of the following statements about stroke
symptoms should cause the clinician to use a higher index of suspicion?
You have responded for a 43-year-old male who was involved in an altercation. The patient was
reportedly beaten about the face and head with a baseball bat. The patient is unresponsive. Evaluation of
the patient's face reveals instability from the orbits to the mandible. Based on this information, how would
you definitively manage this patient's airway?