Paramedic FISDAP Airway Final Exam Review, Exams of Advanced Education

Download Paramedic FISDAP Airway Final Exam Review and more Exams Advanced Education in PDF only on Docsity! Paramedic FISDAP Airway Final Exam Review With 100% Correct Answers 2024 Indications for Nasotracheal Intubation - Correct Answer-Responsive PTs with AMS, gag reflex, respiratory failure due to COPD, asthma, pulmonary edema Indications for Suctioning lower airway - Correct Answer-PTs mouth becomes filled with secretions; to be able to ventilate properly without pushing material into the airway obstructing it Signs and Symptoms of Lower airway injury - Correct Answer-Tachypnea, dyspnea, cough, wheezing, rales, rhonchi, retractions, hypoxia, stridor Signs and Symptoms of Tension Pneumothorax - Correct Answer-hypotension, hypoxia, absent breath sounds to affected side, trachea deviation, JVD, tachycardia, LOC, AMS Physiological Effects of COPD - Correct Answer-slows the process of dilation and disruption of the airways and alveoli caused by chronic bronchial obstruction Signs and Symptoms of Spontaneous Pneumothorax - Correct Answer-dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, sharp, stabbing pain to one side that worsens during expiration or inspiration or certain chest movement; sudden dyspnea Signs and Symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis - Correct Answer-Sinus congestion, wheezing, asthma like, chronic cough, thick heavy discolored mucus, dyspnea Signs and Symptoms of Emphysema - Correct Answer-Barrel chest, pursed lip breathing, dyspnea on exertion, cyanosis, wheezing and decreased breath sounds Signs and symptoms of Pulmonary edema - Correct Answer-Crackles at lung base, crackles get higher as it worsens, pink foamy sputum Treating PT with Asthma - Correct Answer-Bronchodilators, nebulizer albuterol, Beta 2 agonists