T Notes

Question 1

What are the 6 rights of drug administration?

Answer 1

Drug
Dose
Documentation
Time
Patient
Route

Question 2

What are the four process of pharmacokinetics?

Answer 2

Absorption
Biotransformation
Distribution
Elimination

Mnemonic = AB no C DE

Question 3

Signs of diabetes

Answer 3

Polydipsia
Ployphagia
Polyuria

Question 4

Signs of electrocution

Electric shocks can cause which of the following

Answer 4

Internal damage
Ventricular fibrillation
Cardiac irritability
Smouldering clothes

Question 5

Define pharmacokinetics

Answer 5

How drugs are transported in and out of the body.

Question 6

What is the primary function of nitro when treating angina?

Answer 6

Reduce preload

Question 7

What kind of shoulder dislocation presents with a patient in the “squared off” position?

Answer 7

Anterior dislocation

Question 8

What is the most common age group to experience febrile seizures?

Answer 8

6 months to 6 years old

Question 9

What breathing pattern is associated with diabetic ketoacidosis?

Answer 9

Kussmaul’s

Question 10

Frothy red blood at a wound site may suggest?

Answer 10

Open pneumothorax

Question 11

Subglottic thermal burns are most likely caused by?

Answer 11

Superheated steam

Question 12

Hyperresonance in the chest can be cause by?

Answer 12

Phneumothorax or emphysema

Question 13

Anesthetics are which?

Answer 13

Medication that induce loss of sensation to touch or pain

Question 14

The buccal route is?

Answer 14

Between the gums and cheek

Question 15

Patient rotates palms to face downward, this is called?

Answer 15

Pronation

Question 16

What are some potential neck laceration complications?

Answer 16

Subqtaneous emphaema
Air embolism
External / internal jugular or carotid laceration

Question 17

What vital signs would you expect with Cushing?

Answer 17

Increase blood pressure
Irregular respirations
Decrease heart rate

Question 18

Define unified command.

Answer 18

A coordinated effort involving multiple jurisdictions

Question 19

Expect ECG artifact with all except

Answer 19

An enlarged heart

Question 20

Which is not a cause of dysrhythmia?

Answer 20

Hypertension

Question 21

What is not a cause of tachycardia?

Answer 21

Hypothermia

Question 22

What are the two branches of the left coronary artery?

Answer 22

Anterior descending artery and circumflex branch

Question 23

Which of the following cause pulmonary edema?

Answer 23

Left sided heart failure

Question 24

What are open ended questions?

Answer 24

Questions that cannot be answered yes or no.

Question 25

Differential field diagnosis definition

Answer 25

The list of possible causes for your patients condition.

Question 26

Oxygen may cause respiratory distress in which patient?

Answer 26

A COPD patient

Question 27

Car accident patient is experiencing a "tearing sensation" in the chest with pain radiating to the back. What is the most likely cause?

Answer 27

Aortic aneurysm

Question 28

Blunt trauma in the pediatric patient, because of flexibility, suspect injury to?

Answer 28

Spleen

Question 29

What are the lead placements for lead II?

Answer 29

+LL & -RA

Question 30

Which part of respiration is considered passive?

Answer 30

Exhalation

Question 31

Is pressure in the thorax during expiration greater or less than the environment?

Answer 31

Greater

Question 32

Urticaria is caused by?

Answer 32

Vasodilation

Question 33

What is bioequivalence?

Answer 33

Relative therapeutic effectiveness of chemically equivalent drugs

Question 34

A child asthma attack without wheezing is?

Answer 34

An ominous sign

Question 35

Obese female patient complains of RUQ pain radiation to the shoulder after consumptions of grease food. What could be the cause?

Answer 35

Cholecysitis

Question 36

Which occurs during hyperventilation?

Answer 36

CO2 levels lower as a result of increased respiratory rate

Question 37

What is considered alkalosis?

Answer 37

pH greater than 7.45 7.46-14

Question 38

Symptoms of meningitis?

Answer 38

Stiff neck Fever Lethargy Irritability

Question 39

Your partner complains of fever, chills, malaise, aches and cough. What do you suspect?

Answer 39

Influenza

Question 40

Hypertonic solution moves water

Answer 40

Into the vascular space

Question 41

Female patient, 36 pregnant, presents with altered LOC and recent seizures. What is most likely?

Answer 41

eclampsia

Question 42

Supine hypotensive syndrome is caused by?

Answer 42

The gravid uterus compresses the interior vena cava when the mother is supine

Question 43

Hypotension can develop with severe anaphylaxis due to?

Answer 43

Increased vascular permeability and vasodilation

Question 44

During cardiogenic shock, the body compensates by?

Answer 44

Increases contractile force, increase preload, lowers vascular resistance

Question 45

Alkalosis and hyperventilation may produce?

Answer 45

Cramping / carpopedal spasm

Question 46

What is tidal volume?

Answer 46

Average volume of gas inhaled or exhaled in one respiratory cycle, 500 ml

Question 47

Where do internal respiration occur?

Answer 47

Peripheral capillary

Question 48

Put the upper airway anatomy in order from superior to inferior.

Answer 48

``` Nares Nasopharynx Larynx Laryngopharynx Trachea ```

Question 49

Bronchodilator effect what receptors?

Answer 49

Beta 2

Question 50

What is ethics?

Answer 50

What determines how one should live

Question 51

What is ethical relativism?

Answer 51

Each person decides how to behave and whatever decision that person makes is acceptable.

Question 52

What does nocp do?

Answer 52

Serves as a reference point for provincial or territorial bodies seeking to facilitate the mobility of paramedics between provinces and territories. Nocp may become the blueprint for the national exam. Nocp is the key to defining a national scope of practice. All of the above

Question 53

What does primum non nocerre mean?

Answer 53

First do no harm

Question 54

What is required for a patient refusal

Answer 54

A witness

Question 55

Suspect cardiac tamponade when?

Answer 55

After cpr

Question 56

What is the shape of the diaphgram?

Answer 56

Saddle