Medical Tests National Registry Emergency Medical Technician - NREMT Exam Practice Test

You have responded to a local residence of a 37-year-old male who had lacerated his leg while using a
chainsaw in the back of his house. Prior to your arrival, the patient's wife, who is a nurse, applied pressure
to the wound and has the patient in Trendelenburg position. Your assessment of the patient reveals him to
be responsive to painful stimuli with a weak carotid pulse and the blood pressure unobtainable. There is a
massive amount of blood surrounding the patient on the ground. The wife tells you that the wound is
arterial and the injury occurred about 10 to 15 minutes ago. In addition to oxygen therapy, what are your
treatment priorities for this patient?

Food poisoning may be difficult in the field to diagnose due to its broad range of symptoms and time it
takes to make the patient ill. All of the following are types of food borne illness except?

Diabetic Ketoacidosis has the following signs and symptoms; Acetone on breath, dry skin, poor skin tugor,
altered mental status, confusion, thirst and frequent urination. What other symptoms are associated with
DKA?

Patients who inhale poisons to get high are often referred to as _____________?

A danger of using a rigid suction catheter with infants and young children is that stimulating the back of
the throat can:

Which of the following vital signs would be most indicative of a patient who has entered the
decompensated stage of shock?

The space between the base if the tongue and the epiglottis is called?

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

You are treating a 24-year-old female with a gunshot wound to the right side of the back. No exit wound is
visible. She is awake but confused. Her skin is pale and diaphoretic with cyanosis noted to the oral
mucosa. Breath sounds are clear and equal bilaterally. Jugular vein distention is present. Blood pressure
is 90/78 mmHg, heart rate is 124 beats per minute, and respiratory rate is 28 per minute and labored.
Sinus tachycardia is seen on the cardiac monitor. Which of the following treatment regimens would be the
most appropriate for this patient?

An intervention for someone who is apneic would be?

The normal heart rate for a child between the ages of 1-6:

You find that your diabetic patient is hypoglycemic, you have oral glucose to give to the patient. You will
give 15 grams of instant glucose to the following patients except?