Practice Test 12 - NREMT EMT Level
20 questions. Answer them in any order, then submit to see your score and every explanation.
- A 2-year-old child presents with fever, drooling, and difficulty swallowing. The child is sitting upright and appears anxious. What is the most appropriate initial action?
- Driver is calm, normal exam, but a passenger died in the crash. What is required?
- A 16-year-old patient is 8 months pregnant and complaining of severe headache and seeing spots. Her blood pressure is 160/100 mmHg. What condition should the EMT suspect?
- Which follow-up questions would provide the most clinically relevant information for completing the SAMPLE assessment?
- Which airway opening technique is MOST appropriate for this patient?
- When approaching an intersection during emergency response, what should the EMT driver do even when using lights and sirens?
- What is the primary responsibility of an EMT when arriving at a scene involving unknown hazardous materials?
- A 65-year-old diabetic patient's family called 911 because the patient has been increasingly confused over the past 2 hours and is now difficult to arouse. What nature of illness should guide your assessment priorities?
- A pregnant woman at 32 weeks gestation is experiencing contractions every 3 minutes. She states she feels the urge to push. What is the EMT's priority action?
- What vital sign change would be most concerning in a patient with suspected internal bleeding?
- At a stadium collapse after an earthquake, how does an EMT determine triage priority for walking wounded?
- When assessing the 'S' component of SAMPLE history, what is the primary difference between signs and symptoms that the EMT should understand?
- A 75-year-old patient fell and is complaining of hip pain. The patient lives alone and has been on the floor for 6 hours. Besides the obvious injury, what complication should the EMT be most concerned about?
- You respond to a motor vehicle collision where a sedan struck a tree at approximately 35 mph. The airbags deployed and the patient was wearing a seatbelt. What mechanism of injury considerations are most important?
- What is your immediate airway management priority for this patient?
- You arrive at a multi-vehicle accident where another EMT is already on scene providing care to one patient. There are several other injured patients visible. What should you do?
- Which finding is the most significant indicator of a high-energy mechanism of injury?
- During reassessment, an EMT should pay particular attention to which area when a patient has received spinal immobilization?
- During bag-valve-mask ventilation, what indicates poor airway patency?
- When performing chest compressions on an unresponsive patient in cardiac arrest, what is the correct compression depth for an adult?