CH 5 Flashcards
(34 cards)
Breathing sounds that should concern the EMT are:
snoring, gurgling, wheezing, and crowing.
You are transporting a patient to the hospital from a motor vehicle crash. Your patient’s initial blood pressure was 88/52. You should reassess blood pressure:
at least every 5 minutes
You are assessing an 82-year-old female who has been lost in the woods behind her nursing home for several hours on a crisp fall evening. Your pulse oximeter shows her oxygen saturation to be 82 percent even though she appears to be breathing adequately. In order to ensure an accurate reading, you should:
warm the patient’s hands and try again
Slight movement of the chest during respiration is usually indicative of which of the following?
shallow breathing
Vital signs should be reassessed at least every ________ minutes for a stable patient.
15
You have a 38-year-old patient who has fainted. Following your local protocol, you use a pulse oximeter to determine the SpO2. You attach the device to the patient’s finger; it gives you a reading of 91 percent. What does that reading indicate?
mild hypoxia
You respond to a 30-month-old patient who has passed out. Is the patient’s blood pressure important to your treatment? Why?
No, blood pressure is difficult to obtain in children younger than age 3 and has little impact on the patient’s field management.
An increase in the work of breathing is reported as:
labored breathing
You are called to a 72-year-old patient with weakness and headache and an initial blood pressure of 140/92. Her repeat blood pressure at 5 minutes is unchanged. Her condition is called:
hypertension
You are transporting a patient down a bumpy road. Your patient’s blood pressure has just been measured by the monitor at 190/110. The patient’s blood pressure on scene was 130/80. You should:
re-measure the blood pressure manually.
You respond to a cafeteria to find an unconscious person with gurgling sounds upon exhalation and inhalation. What is the probable cause of the respiratory sounds?
fluids in the airway
A patient with a pulse rate of 120 beats per minute is considered which of the following?
tachycardic
You are assessing a 48-year-old male who is unconscious. The scene is safe and you hear the patient gurgling. What is your next action?
suction the airway
The abbreviation mmHg indicates that the blood pressure is measured by which of the following comparisons?
millimeters of mercury
When taking blood pressure manually, the cuff should be inflated to what point?
30 mmHg beyond the point where the pulse disappears
You are called to care for a child who has fallen out of a third-story window. You arrive to find the child in his mother’s arms. As you approach, you notice the child’s skin is pale with dark spots of cyanosis. You would report this uncommon condition of blotchy skin as:
mottling
What is the pressure remaining in the arteries after the pulse wave has passed through?
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diastolic blood pressure
You respond to a childcare center for a report of an injured 4-year-old. Her pulse is 130 beats per minute. Which of the following best describes this finding?
Tachycardic
An approximate normal systolic blood pressure can be calculated for infants and children by using which of the following formulas?
90 plus 2 times the age in years
Which of the following is a normal respiratory rate for an adult at rest?
12 to 20 breaths per minute
Where do baseline vital signs fit into the sequence of patient assessment?
At the secondary assessment
Which of the following are vital signs that need to be recorded for virtually every EMS patient?
Pulse; respiration; skin color, temperature, and condition; pupils; and blood pressure
When the EMT checks the pupils, he or she is checking for what three things?
Size, equality, and reactivity
When the heart contracts and forces blood into the arteries, the pressure created is known as the:
systolic blood pressure
