ESP (Emergency Care)

Quiz 9

Read each item carefully and select the best choice.

1.      The heart is ------------separated into two parts.

( longitudinally / anteriorly / laterally   / bilaterally )

2.      The heart is controlled by the --------.

( heart"s muscle / right side of the heart / heart"s electrical system / left side of the heart )

3.      The mental status may provide a clue ----the length of time from the beginning of poison ingestion.

( as to / so as to / as for / as if )

4.      Be sure to ---- both the respiratory rate and depth of respiration.

( ventilate   / assess / alert / monitor )

5.      ----the airway , the respiratory may suddenly become inadequate from the delayed absorption of the poison.

( Similarly / Unlike / Likely / Like )

6.      -----monitor the chest rise and fall and the rate of respiration.

( Relatively / Closely   / Comparatively / Ultimately )

7.      An antidote is a substance that will ---- a poison or its effects.

( concentrate / contract / neutralize / ingest )

8.      If the patient is experiencing an altered mental status from the poison, it is evident that the poison ----into the bloodstream.

( is already being absorbed   / absorbs already   / was already absorbed / was already being absorbed )

9.      The treatment of poisons is generally ------toward prevention of absorption.

( geared / transfused / transferred   / vocalized )

        10 . Cyanide is a byproduct of incomplete ----of many plastic, silk and synthetic carpets.

( absorption   / combustion / consumption / sanitation )

11.  This drug is quickly ----into the bloodstream.

( absorbs / absorbed / absorptive / absorption )

12.  The patient was taking a widely ----sedative.

( preion / prescribed / prescribe / preive )

13.  She suffers from ---vision.

( impair / impaired / impairs / impairment )

         14. The house is in a very -----position.

( exposed / exposure / exposing / expository )

15.  The prefix " trans- " in transport means-----.

( carry / move / across / along )

16.  The suffix " – algia" in neuralgia means ----.

( study / inflammation / swallow / pain )

17.  Accidental is the antonym of ---.

( intentional / sudden / random / simultaneous )

18.  ----exercise can sometimes cause health problems.

( Energetic / Systemic / Irregular / Excessive )

19.  There is a strong ----that smoking can cause lung cancer.

( confliction / indication / consideration / attention )

         20 . As a standard ------, firefighters will receive cyanide –poisoning antidotes.

( correction / security / precaution / facility )

ESP ( Emergency Care)

Quiz 5

Select the best choice.

1. Pain from stretching a solid organ is usually a -------.

        a. steady                b. genital               c. rigid                   d. sensitive

2. The respiratory system is necessary in-------a normal state of perfusion.

        a. protecting          b.removing           c. inflaming          d. maintaining

3. An intact respiratory system can apply oxygen. The underlined word means -------.

        a. not touched       b. not damaged     c. non-hypoxic      d. unspecific

4. The heart is very -------to decrease in perfusion.

        a. inadequate         b. sensitive            c. ordinary             d. trivial

5. -------processes of the body decreases when shock occurs.

        a. Proportional     b. Inevitable          c. Vital                  d. Significant

6. The natural -------of the blood vessels to bleeding is vessel constriction and clotting.

        a. expansion          b. contraction       c. response            d. procedure

7. Uncontrolled bleeding -------an injury to blood vessels.

        a. results from      b. results in           c. leads to              d. brings about

8. A cut along the length of the vessel will cause the vessel to open wider when it -----.

        a. withstands         b. transmits           c. bleeds                d. contracts

9. Uncontrolled bleeding can -------to hypoperfusion.

        a. represent           b. appear               c. lead                    d. soak

10. A vessel that has been cut across will have a/an -------to retract and clot off.

        a. presence            b. tendency            c. existence           d. estimate

11. To conclude that a ------- of 500 ml of blood is not significant in an adult would be wrong.

        a. size                    b. percent              c. percentage         d. loss

12. The estimate of blood loss must be -------based on the patient"s signs and symptoms.

        a. paid                   b. done                  c. made                  d. taken

13. The severity of bleeding -------to the amount of blood loss is dependent on the patient.

        a. variable             b. relative              c. average              d. quite

14. A/an -------adult is considered to be 70 kg.

        a. average-sized    b. average-size      c. size-average      d. sized-average

15. Body substance isolation precautions must be -------routinely.

        a. done                  b. taken                 c. made                  d.paid

16. BSI precautions are your best defense against -------of infectious disease.

        a. transmission     b. elimination       c. significance       d. threat

17. Uncontrolled bleeding occurs due to -------defensive power.

        a. reversed             b. lacking              c. impaired            d. resisting

18. Infants and young children -------have 80 ml/kg of blood volume.

        a. specially            b. specifically       c. extremely          d. typically

19. The severity of blood loss is dependent on several -------.

        a. variety               b. variables           c. variations          d. various

20. Hypoperfusion is the insufficient supply of oxygen and other -------to some of the body"s cells.

        a. nutrients            b. nutrition            c. nutritious          c. nutritive           

ESP( Emergency Care )

Quiz 7

Choose the best choice:

1. The major amount of ……………………. occurs at the level of the capillaries.

 (perfusion/ precaution / deterioration)

2. An …………………….. respiratory system can supply oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the blood.

( intact / adequate / sufficient )

3. Hyper fusion causes a state of …………………….. depression of the vital process of the body.

(reversible /profound /insignificant )

4. The brain and spinal cord can …………………….. a lack of per fusion for only 4 to 6 minutes.

( exist / withstand / inhibit )

5. Body substance isolation precautions must be taken …………………….. . ( externally / typically / routinely )

6. Wear personal protective equipment, …………………….. gloves and eyewear.

( including / consisting of /leading to )

7. The …………………….. of bleeding depends on the patient. ( variable / severity / existence )

8. An …………………….. adult is considered to be 154 pounds.( average-size / average –sized / size – averaged )

9. The …………………….. of blood loss must be made based on the patient’s signs and symptoms.

( contract / response / estimate )

10. A vessel cut across will have a …………………….. to react and clot off .( simplicity / tendency / treatment )

11. Penetrating injuries may …………………….. you to seek law enforcement resources.( prompt / note / suspect )

12. If breathing is inadequate, provide positive pressure …………………….. . ( ventilation /approach / assessment )

13. …………………….. of a blood vessel or vascular structure may cause internal bleeding.

( Defusion / Fracture / Rupture )

14. Always …………………….. internal bleeding if there are penetrating wounds to the chest.

 ( suspect / assume / presume )

15. A …………………….. is a collection of blood between the muscle and its outer tissue.

( trauma / hematoma /dispatch)

16. After ensuring the scene is safe, …………………….. the patient .( depress / impress / approach )

17. If a major bleed is found , …………………….. control it with direct pressure.

( slightly / immediately / drastically )

18. …………………….. the patient continues to lose blood, the mental status will continue to deteriorate.

( As / Whereas / While )

19. Assess the airway and ensure that it is …………………….. .(chin-lift / patent / head- tilt )

20 . Amount of air breathed into or out of the lungs in quiet, relaxed breathing is called …………………….. .

(palpation / respiratory rate / tidal wave )

ESP ( Emergency Care)

Quiz 5

Select the best choice.

1. Pain from stretching a solid organ is usually a -------.

        a. steady                 b. genital                 c. rigid                    d. sensitive

2. The respiratory system is necessary in-------a normal state of perfusion.

        a. protecting            b.removing             c. inflaming             d. maintaining

3. An intact respiratory system can apply oxygen. The underlined word means -------.

        a. not touched         b. not damaged       c. non-hypoxic        d. unspecific

4. The heart is very -------to decrease in perfusion.

        a. inadequate           b. sensitive              c. ordinary              d. trivial

5. -------processes of the body decreases when shock occurs.

        a. Proportional        b. Inevitable            c. Vital                    d. Significant

6. The natural -------of the blood vessels to bleeding is vessel constriction and clotting.

        a. expansion            b. contraction         c. response             d. procedure

7. Uncontrolled bleeding -------an injury to blood vessels.

        a. results from         b. results in             c. leads to               d. brings about

8. A cut along the length of the vessel will cause the vessel to open wider when it -----.

        a. withstands           b. transmits             c. bleeds                 d. contracts

9. Uncontrolled bleeding can -------to hypoperfusion.

        a. represent             b. appear                c. lead                    d. soak

10. A vessel that a -------has been cut across will have a/an -------to retract and clot off.

        a. presence             b. tendency             c. existence             d. estimate

11. To conclude that a ------- of 500 ml of blood is not significant in an adult would be wrong.

        a. size                     b. percent               c. percentage          d. loss

12. The estimate of blood loss must be -------based on the patient"s signs and symptoms.

        a. paid                    b. done                   c. made                  d. taken

13. The severity of bleeding -------to the amount of blood loss is dependent on the patient.

        a. variable               b. relative                c. average               d. quite

14. A/an -------adult is considered to be 70 kg.

        a. average-sized       b. average-size        c. size-average        d. sized-average

15. Body substance isolation precautions must be -------routinely.

        a. done                   b. taken                  c. made                  d.paid

16. BSI precautions are your best defense against -------of infectious disease.

        a. transmission        b. elimination          c. significance         d. threat

17. Uncontrolled bleeding occurs due to -------defensive power.

        a. reversed              b. lacking                c. impaired              d. resisting

18. Infants and young children -------have 80 ml/kg of blood volume.

        a. specially              b. specifically          c. extremely            d. typically

19. The severity of blood loss is dependent on several -------.

        a. variety                 b. variables             c. variations            d. various

20. Hypoperfusion is the insufficient supply of oxygen and other -------to some of the body"s cells.

        a. nutrients              b. nutrition              c. nutritious             c. nutritive   

ESP ( Emergency Care)

Quiz 2

Select the best choice.

1. A variety of medical emergencies can -----exposure to heat or cold.

        a. result from          b. result in               c. lead to                d. cause

2.There is a range of medical emergencies that -----water recreation.

        a. result in               b. arise from           c. bring about         d. caused by

3. Some medical emergencies require ----treatment in the hospital.

        a. localized              b. systemic             c. vital                    d. prompt

4. When the entire body temperature -----, the condition is called hypothermia.

        a. goes up               b. rises                   c. falls                    d. increases

5. At temperature below freezing, the patient may ---frostbite.

        a. drown                 b. strand                 c. suffer                  d. follow

6. Hypothermia has ---- many natural disasters.

        a. complicated        b. happened            c. occurred             d. progressed

7. At body temperatures below 90 degrees F , shivering gradually ----.

        a. trembles              b. ceases                c. approaches         d. radiates

8. Hypothermia is a/an -----condition that is difficult to recognize in its early stage.

        a. initial                   b. terminal               c. exhausted            d. insidious

9. Hypothermia is -----lethal.

        a. effortlessly          b. sluggishly            c. arbitrarily            d. potentially

10. Ventricular fibrillation can occur ----at body temperature of 77 degrees.

        a. efficiently            b. atypically            c. spontaneously     d. regularly

11. Subdermal means -------.

        a. below the skin     b. below the orbit    c. under the chin     d. of the navel

12. Which of the following suffix does NOT mean "related to"?

        a. –ary                    b. –ous                   c. –al                      d. –oid

13. It is a ----poison; it is likely that it causes ----.

        a. dead/died            b. deadly/death       c. dying/dead          d. dead/deadly

14. Heat exhaustion is also called heat -----.

        a. profusion            b. protrusion           c. prostration          d. prevention

15. The mortality rate outside a hospital is high for patients who have a ----temperature below 90 degrees F.

        a. survival               b. pleural                c. rectal                  d. cerebral

16. Individuals with subacute and chronic hypothermia are----.

        a. rendered              b. revitalized           c. dehydrated          d. stabilized

17. The cold patients will have slow ----and low blood pressure.

        a. respiration           b. perspiration         c. inspiration           d. expiration

18. Any rescue breathing should be performed ----mouth-to-mask.

        a. via                      b. from                   c. thorough             d. as

19. CPR may actually ----ventricular fibrillation in a patient with a pulse that is weak or slow enough.

        a. aggregate             b. precipitate           c. aggravate            d. persist

20. In very cold patients, CPR may be impossible because the chest is ----.

        a. comprehensible   b. unresponsive       c. constricted          d. incompressible

ESP( Emergency Care)

Quiz 3

?Read each item carefully and select the best choice.

1. You must more the patient to the waiting ambulance and ……………….. the patient o the patient compartment.

         a. assess                                b. provide                                  c. care                              d. load

2.  After you arrive the hospital, you must ……………….. the patient, move him to the examining room.

         a. position                              b. drag                                       c. unload                          d. emerge

3.  To avoid ………………to the patient , you will have to learn how to lift and carry the patient properly.

         a. injury                                 b. injured                                   c. injure                           d. injuring

4. Lifting and carrying are ……………….. Processes.

         a. superior                             b. dynamic                                c. inferior                         d. sudden

5. You will also need to know how to prepare ……………….. devices.

            a. moving- patient                                                                  b. patient- moving

            c. movable- patient                                                                 d. patient- movable

6. The shoulder girdle ……………….. the rib cage.

      a. rests on                                 b. lies inferior to                       c. connects to                  d. relies on

7. The arms are connected to and ……………….. from the shoulder girdle.

      a. stretch                                  b. fuse                                       c. align                             d. hang

8. The sacrum is the mechanical ……………….. base of the spinal column.

      a. bearing- weight                                                                      b. weight- bearing

      c. weighting- bear                                                                       d. weighting- bearing

9. When you stand upright, the weight of any thing being lifted and carried in the hands ……………….. the shoulder girdle.

      a. is reflected onto                                                                     b. reflect onto

      c. is reflecting in                                                                         d. reflected into

10. With the back properly maintained in an upright position, very little ………………..  occurs against the muscles and ligaments.

      a. strain                                    b. location                                c. process                        d. support

11. ……………….. of your symptoms will take a long time, I’m afraid .

      a. Significance                          b Performance                          c. Assistance                   c. Assessment

12. Please ……………….. that all lights are switched off at night .

      a. ensure                                   b. assure                                   c. conside                        d. assume

13. I’m a patient of Dt. Stephens ;Please could I make a/ an ……………….. .

      a. proportion                             b. appointment                          c. promise                        d. reservation

14. Her ……………….. as a well –known doctor surprised every body in the country.

      a. emergency                            b. emergence                            c. emergent                     d. emerging

15. It is quite a bit safer to have 4 ……………….. lift.

      a. rescue                                   b. rescuers                                c. saviour                         d. saving

16. Lift your patient by raising the upper body and arms and by ……………….. your legs until you are again standing.

      a. loosening                              b. straightening                        c. tightening                    d. flexing

17. Lifting by ……………….. the properly placed bent legs is the safest and most powerful way to lift.

      a. balancing                              b. locking                                  c. orienting                      d. extending

18. Adjust your ……………….. and position until the weight is balanced and centered between both arms.

      a. orientation                            b. distribution                           c. gravity                         d. extension

19. There is a ……………….. center adjacent to where I live.

      a. inflation                                b. rehabilitation                        c. extremity                     c. flexible

20. The nurse ……………….. the patient by the arm and led her to the window.

      a. tolerated                               b. exerted                                 c. wheeled                       d. grasped

ESP for the Students

 Emergency Medicine

?Read each item carefully and select the best choice.

1. Generally state law ………… the EMT-B’s scope of practice.

         a. reflects                           b. trains                           c. converts                             d. identifies

2. Providing   oxygen under the appropriate  ………… is within the EMT-B,s scope of practice.

         a. standards                        b. importance                  c. significance                        d. circumstances

3. Your EMS system’s medical director ………… the day –to-day guidelines.

         a. installs                            b. expects                        c. establishes                         d. consents

4. The standards of care would ………… as the care expected of an EMT-Basic.

         a. be defined                       b. defined                        c. define                                 d. be to define

5. Falling below the standard of care would ………… negligence.

         a. function                           b. constitute                    c. recognize                           d. operate

6. Your ………… to provide service is referred too as duty to act.

         a. resuscitation                   b. expertise                     c. differentiation                    d. obligation

7. While off duty, you could pass the ………… and call for help.

         a. scenario                          b. scenary                        c. scene                                  d. ceiling

8. While on duty, you ………… to care for a patient who requires it.

         a. must                                b. have                             c. are obligated                     d. b&c

9. My secretary is perfectly competent, but she doesn’t have enough …………  .

         a. initiative                         b. considerate                 c. direction                             d. orientation

10. In “perinatal” , the prefix “peri-“means …………

         a. offer                                b. before                          c. beside                                d. around

11. In “Leukemia” , the suffix-“ia” means…………

         a. inflammation                  b. pertaining to                c. related to                           d. condition

  12. In “anemia” there is/are ………… .

         a. one prefix and one suffix

         b. a prefix, a root and a suffix

         c. only one root

         d. only one suffix and the root

13. The government has ………… certain drugs.

         a. illegal                              b. legalized                      c. legally                                d. legal

14. You have to make a ………… arrangement.

         a. providence                      b. provision                     c. provider                             d. providable

15. A breach of the duty to act is when the EMT-Basic ………… from the standard of care.

         a. deviates                          b. avoids                          c. prevents                             d. neglects

16. Gross negligence is care that is delivered …………  as being dangerous .

         a. charged                           b. intended                      c. construed                           d. failed

17. Before emergency care is ………… , the patient must be informed of the care.

         a. departed                         b. abandoned                   c. administered                      d. rendered

18. If the plaintiff cannot prove all four elements, the ………… will fail.

         a. injury                              b. suit                               c. damage                              d. compensation

19. once a patient relationship has been established, it can not be ………… .

         a. terminated                      b. proximated                  c. constituted                         d. followed

20. The reported tried to ………… the scope of the report by more interviews.

         a. broadcast                        b. supervise                     c. broaden                              d. authorize

21. There has been a ………… improvement in the company’s trading position..

         a. private                            b. proximate                    c. prudent                              d. slight