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EMR / NATIONAL REGISTRY EXAM 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS Distal - Precise Answer ✔✔Nearer to free end of an extremity Proximal - Precise Answer ✔✔Closer to trunk Which muscular organ holds and nourishes the fetus? - Precise Answer ✔✔Uterus Life support for FETUS? - Precise Answer ✔✔Placenta What holds a fertilized egg as it develops? - Precise Answer ✔✔Uterus Bag an adult if they have less than ? breaths per minute. - Precise Answer ✔✔10 breaths per munute Bag an infant if they have less than ? breaths per minute. - Precise Answer ✔✔20 breaths per minute List the 3 causes of burns. - Precise Answer ✔✔Heat chemicals electricity What is a 3rd degree burn? - Precise Answer ✔✔Damages all layers of skin - full thickness burn What is a 2nd degree burn? - Precise Answer ✔✔Partial thickness burn 3 types of splints? - Precise Answer ✔✔Rigid Soft Traction splints 3 types of pipes?(blood vessels) - Precise Answer ✔✔Arteries Veins Capillaries Sign or symptom of FLAIL CHEST? - Precise Answer ✔✔One side of chest rises and falls when respirating and other doesnt. What can Flail chest cause? - Precise Answer ✔✔Hypoxia: less oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged in the lungs How to treat Flail chest? - Precise Answer ✔✔Place a pillow on top of the side with the damaged ribs to help brace them as you continue to respirate. Suction 5 seconds for an infant, 10 for a child and 15 seconds for an adult What are ligaments? - Precise Answer ✔✔Fibrous bands that connect bone-to-bone How far do you stop your vehicle before the accident scene? - Precise Answer ✔✔50 to 100 feet - ensure safety of patients and partner How do you care for a patient with a pulse but poor breathing? - Precise Answer ✔✔Rescue breathing 1 breath every 5 seconds. 1 breath every 5-6 seconds (10-12 breaths per minute) 1 breath every 3-5 seconds (12-20 breaths per minute) Bag an ADULT when their respiration rate is less than ? And more than ? - Precise Answer ✔✔<10 breaths per minute and >30 breaths per minute Bag a CHILD when their respiration rate is less than ? And more than ? - Precise Answer ✔✔<10 breaths per minute and >30 breaths per minute Bag a INFANT when their respiration rate is less than ? And more than ? - Precise Answer ✔✔<20 breaths per minute and >60 breaths per minute (double the child's numbers) What pulse rate should you start chest compressions for an ADULT? - Precise Answer ✔✔If their pulse rate is <60 seconds per minute What pulse rate should you start chest compressions for an CHILD? - Precise Answer ✔✔If their pulse rate is <60 seconds per minute What pulse rate should you start chest compressions for an INFANT? - Precise Answer ✔✔If their pulse rate is <60 seconds per minute What is a STROKE? - Precise Answer ✔✔Broken blood vessels or clot in the BRAIN Signs and Symptoms of a HEART ATTACK? - Precise Answer ✔✔Crushing💔 Signs & Symptoms of a STROKE? - Precise Answer ✔✔Fuzzy vision headache pupils Signs and symptoms of ANGINA PECTORUS? - Precise Answer ✔✔Elephant pressure What is ANGINA PECTORUS? - Precise Answer ✔✔Reduced blood flow (blood supply) to the heart ❤ What are HEAT CRAMPS? - Precise Answer ✔✔Muscle spasm Signs and symptoms of a HEAT STROKE? - Precise Answer ✔✔Not sweating High temp Hot to touch Signs and symptoms of a HEAT EXHAUSTION? - Precise Answer ✔✔Sweating Low temp Presents like shock What is ATHSMA? - Precise Answer ✔✔Spasm of small airways? Signs and symptoms of ATHSMA? - Precise Answer ✔✔Wheezing Treatment for ATHSMA? - Precise Answer ✔✔1) oxygen - pursed lip breathing 2) monitor pulse 3) prompt transport 3) rapid shallow breathing 4) BP goes down Dislocation - Precise Answer ✔✔A dislocation TEARS ligaments in the JOINT. Bone ends are not in alignment. Sprain - Precise Answer ✔✔A sprain is a STRETCHED ligament or torn muscle. Nasal cannula delivers ? - Precise Answer ✔✔2-6 liters of oxygen/minute (20-40% oxygen) Non-Rebreather delivers ? - Precise Answer ✔✔12-15 liters of oxygen/minute (90% oxygen) What do you set the BVM at? - Precise Answer ✔✔15 liters of oxygen per minute (12 to 15) How to test for SHOCK? - Precise Answer ✔✔Press on a finger and the color should come back in the time it takes to say "capillary refill." What is capillary refill? - Precise Answer ✔✔It should take 2 seconds for the circulatory system to return blood to the capillary vessel. Doesn't work if patient is in shock. Signs and symptoms of carbon monoxide? - Precise Answer ✔✔Headache Nausea Red skin What is a slow pulse a sign of? - Precise Answer ✔✔Serious injury What is COPD? - Precise Answer ✔✔Lung disease: Damage to air sacs in the LUNGS Can get hypoxic: no oxygen to the BRAIN Treatment of COPD? - Precise Answer ✔✔BVM (bag valve mask) Signs and symptoms of COPD? - Precise Answer ✔✔Dizzy Shortness of breath What is the aorta? - Precise Answer ✔✔It's the main artery goes from the left ventricle down to the abdomen What does the Aorta do? - Precise Answer ✔✔Distributes oxygenated blood to all parts of the body. Thoracic - Precise Answer ✔✔Upper back What carries blood away from the heart? - Precise Answer ✔✔Arteries carry blood away from the heart. A for away. Rope like, connects bones to bones - Precise Answer ✔✔Ligaments Connects muscle to bone - Precise Answer ✔✔Tendons What are veins? - Precise Answer ✔✔Thin walled vessels that carry blood back to the heart ❤ . What are capillaries? - Precise Answer ✔✔Blood cells and tissue exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide when blood reaches capillaries. Contraindicated for NPA? - Precise Answer ✔✔Head injury (no nasal airway) When to use a non rebreather? - Precise Answer ✔✔Shock Indications for an OPA? - Precise Answer ✔✔Oropharnyngeal (to establish oral airway) is used when patient is unconscious with no gag reflex. How to administer CPR with two people on a INFANT? - Precise Answer ✔✔15:2 15 compressions to 2 breaths What to do if there's no pulse or breathing? - Precise Answer ✔✔AED and CPR What to do if you have a pulse and patient breathing, but patient is unconscious? - Precise Answer ✔✔Recovery position (left side) Monitor respiration Most common reasons for unconsciousness? - Precise Answer ✔✔1) Stroke 2) blood sugar 3) overdose AED with attenuator - Precise Answer ✔✔8 years old A patient has best chance of survival if they get ? - Precise Answer ✔✔high quality CPR Where would you check a patient for PMS (pulse, motor, sensory) if they have an injured arm? - Precise Answer ✔✔index finger and small finger (pinky) How many compressions per minute? - Precise Answer ✔✔100 Cervical is what part of body? - Precise Answer ✔✔neck How many areas of the skeletal system are there ????????????????????? - Precise Answer ✔✔7 Order and placement of bones in the vertebrae (spine)? - Precise Answer ✔✔33 bones cervical - neck (7) nerves (8) thoracic - upper back (12) lumbar - lower back (5) sacrum - fused vertebrae (5) coccyx - tailbone (4) The hepatitis B vaccine program, a component of the infection control plan, addresses all of the following issues, EXCEPT: - Precise Answer ✔✔family history of hepatitis. Which part of the body makes bile? - Precise Answer ✔✔Liver Where is bile stored? - Precise Answer ✔✔Gallbladder Which part of the body produces insulin? - Precise Answer ✔✔Pancreas produces insulin. Posterior - Precise Answer ✔✔Back Inferior - Precise Answer ✔✔Feet Superior - Precise Answer ✔✔Head Primary function of the kidney? - Precise Answer ✔✔Removes waste Where does blood get oxygen? - Precise Answer ✔✔In the lungs. And then it's pumped by the heart to the rest of the body. Anterior - Precise Answer ✔✔Front How many pairs of ribs do we have? - Precise Answer ✔✔12 pairs Name the three kinds of muscles and describe them? - Precise Answer ✔✔1) Voluntary (skeletal muscles / attached to bone) 2) Involuntary (smooth muscles /inside digestive tract)and internal organs) 3) cardiac muscle (heart) If you find facial injuries, you should suspect ___ ? - Precise Answer ✔✔spinal injury Ribs protect the _____? - Precise Answer ✔✔heart and lungs Skull protects the _____? - Precise Answer ✔✔Brain Vertebrae protects the _____? - Precise Answer ✔✔spinal cord Pelvis protects the _____? - Precise Answer ✔✔reproductive organs Sternum protects the _____? - Precise Answer ✔✔spleen How frequent do you give a rescue breath? - Precise Answer ✔✔1 every 5 seconds Stages of Childbirth - Precise Answer ✔✔1) water beaks, bloody show 2) head crowns, prep for delivery, birth, catch the baby 3) delivery of placenta, message patient's uterus, allow mom to nurse What are rabies? - Precise Answer ✔✔An infection of the central nervous system. List three types of bleeding - Precise Answer ✔✔1) Arterial 2) venous 3) capillary If someone is bleeding from an arterial wound, the blood can be described as ____? - Precise Answer ✔✔Arterial bleeding spurts out. If someone is bleeding from capillaries, the blood can be described as ____? - Precise Answer ✔✔Capillary bleeding oozes from open wound. Venous bleeding looks like _____? - Precise Answer ✔✔Venous bleeding creates a steady flow. What is the atria? - Precise Answer ✔✔Two upper chambers of the heart. What is a bruise? - Precise Answer ✔✔A contusion. When a blunt object crushes the tissue under the skin. An airtight dressing or bandage - Precise Answer ✔✔Occlusive dressing Cardiogenic shock is? - Precise Answer ✔✔Inadequate functioning of the heart Psychogenic shock is? - Precise Answer ✔✔Fainting, poor blood supply to the heart Anaphylactic shock is? - Precise Answer ✔✔An allergic reaction caused by food, medicine or insects. Three types of burns - Precise Answer ✔✔1) heat 2) chemical burn 3) electrical burn Treatment for chemical burns in the eyes? - Precise Answer ✔✔Flush for 20 minutes (without dripping on other eye ) Hypothermia only occurs in cases of extreme cold (T/F)? - Precise Answer ✔✔False If a person with frostbite has been out in the cold for hours, you should arrange for transport to the hospital rather than try to rewarm the affected areas yourself (T/F)? - Precise Answer ✔✔True In the first stage of superficial frostbite, the exposed body part becomes pale white (T/F)?. - Precise Answer ✔✔False The mammalian diving reflex increases the heart rate and metabolic rate while decreasing the body's demand for oxygen (T/F)? - Precise Answer ✔✔False It's a reflex which optimizes respiration to allow staying underwater for extended periods of time. Upon facial contact with cold water, the human heart rate slows down 10-25%.