Free NREMT Practice Test

If you reach the site where a woman of advanced age has fallen and injured her ribs, and when you check you find she is breathing rapidly and shallowly, the rate being 40, how can you confirm that this emergency is life threatening?

EMT’s normally use as an endotracheal tube:

‘Scllick’smancuver’ is meant for:

Once you have the endotracheal tube in place, and as you perform auscultation, you realize the patient’s right side has sounds from the lungs but the left does not, or they are minimal. What should be your next move?

You have been instructed by medical control to help a patient who has a metered dose inhaler. What must you ensure before you can begin to help the patient?

What is ‘spontaneous pneumothorax’?

What would you consider a suitable intervention to treat an apncic person?

What kind of injury leads to paradoxical motion affecting a person’s chest?

Often, cardiac arrest in children is the result of:

When carrying out artificial ventilation using a bag-value-mask to help patient whom you consider to have no trauma, you should first:

If a 70-year-old patient whose complaint is being sort of breath has had emphysema in the past, what should you do?

Utilizing a rigid suction catheter when treating infants and young children risks stimulation of the back of the throat, which may:

If your 35-year-old patient cannot breath and you cannot get the airway open using either the jaw thrust or suctioning, what should you do?

Of the options given below about insufficient breathing, which is correct?

The structure that bars food as well as liquids from getting into a person’s trachea at the time of swallowing is:

What action should you take if you have a patient with epistaxis?

What signs & symptoms indicate the patient in shock?

Your patient is a 22-year-old man with an object lodged in the chest somewhere on the right and beneath his shoulder. You begin by confirming that object has not blocked the airway. What should you do next?

When you see a patient whose injury comprise overstretched, torn ligaments, what do you consider those injuries to be?

If you think a patient has fractured the talus bone, what is the most suitable treatment you would recommend?

You have a patient with an injury at the back of the head. Which specific part of his brain is most likely to be affected?

Your 33-year-old male patient has a big laceration on his abdomen, with his abdominal organ protruding out if that opening. What is this kind of injury called?

The most suitable means of handling an amputated extremity is:

If, during transportation of a trauma patient, you observe he is becoming worse, what is the best thing to do?

When transporting a patient who is unconscious, you should access vital signs:

The mnemonic used to determine consciousness level is:

You have been called because a male, 16 years if age, has fallen from around 15feet. You should consider the call:

If a child below eight years of age fell a distance more than ______, the injury mechanism would certainly be significant.

When you arrive at a motor accident scene and notice a man whom a car has hit has clear fluid leaking out of his ear, you conclude the fluid is cerebral spinal. You therefore think the patient has likely suffered:

When assessing a patient’s lower extremities, PMS refers to:

When you find a 32-year-old man with complaints of pain in the abdomen as well as weakness, you assess him, and he tells you he also has Addison’s disease from the use of steroids when he was a teenager. You do not find any conditions that are a threat to his life as far as his airway, breathing and circulation are concerned.\

Specifically, where vital signs are concerned, pulse is 110 bpm, respiration is 16 every minute; blood pressure is 110/72 mmHg while SpO2 is 98 percent gauged against room air. Considering the medical history of the patient, your best option is:

The most common cause of anaphylaxis is:

In the course of planning a seminar that is part of continuing education us conjunction while the medical director, it is decided there is need to address emergencies of a behavioral nature. The medical director would like to know how you define ‘normal’ behavior. What is your response?

Your patient is a 52-year-old woman whom neighbors found behaving oddly. She seems fatigued as well as confused, and her speech is slurred. You note she is able to breathe on her own and you can feel her pulse. Her skin is not only cool but mottled. When you take her vital, you note that her pulse is 68bpm and respiration 14 every minute. Her blood pressure us 108/60 mmHg while her temperature is 92.7°F. You found no trauma signs.

She has prescriptions for some medications in the house, namely Verapamil and Digoxin, as well as Synthroid and also nitroglycerin. Nobody knows about her possible allergies, that apartment she is in has a temperature of 55°F. Considering all those findings, which of the conditions listed below is most probable to have led to his patient’s health condition?

A patient who has peptic ulcers is treated with medications like :

A 17-years-old teenager has all of a sudden begun to be short of breath, and as you assess him, you learn he has Marfan’s syndrome. You also observe the sounds from the lungs, on the left of the chest, have diminished and the patient is dyspncic. What, in your view, is the most likely reason the patient is short of breath?

Insulin has a physiological role in the enhancing how well the cells utilize glucose. What happens to someone whose insulin level is low?

The cell has come in requires that you respond to teenager at a juvenile detention center who, you’re told, has just given himself an opiate injection.

Which drug below is in the opiate category?

At a resort on a mountain stop is a patient who complains of suddenly being short of breath and coughing. After assessing the patient, you realize there are basilar crackles in the lungs and the patient is anxious. The patient’s vitals indicates heart rate is 136 and respiration us 28, while blood pressure is 176/94 mmHg. What diagnosis would you give this particular patient as assessed in the field?

‘Status epilepticus’ means a seizure:

As you transport a patient with night sweats and fever that is mild, who also has a productive cough, he mentions he has been receiving treatment from the Department of Health for a condition of a respiratory nature. Which is the most appropriate way of transporting the patient to a medical facility?

Vital signs indicate your patient has gone into the shock stage described as being ‘decompensate’. What are those signs?

You have a patient who believes his illness is about to kill him, and so you are not making much headway in trying to get details from his regarding his symptoms. Which technique is acceptable to use as you interview him?

Reduce the physical space between him and you and inform him he is likely to become worse if he cannot provide the information you require.

When attending to a patient whose fingers have suffered frostbite, how best can you prepare those fingers for transportation?

Which of the choices below does not cause seizures?

What would be your major concern if you found someone having seizures?

You have a patient who has had epileptic fits in the past, and this time, according to his family, he has failed to recover as he usually does after having a seizure. The patient suffers another seizure just as you accessing him. What is the term given to such a condition?

There is a form of seizure that causes a patient to simpler stare into space and not experience massive muscular contractions. What is it called?

As an EMT, it is not uncommon to encounter case of allergic reaction, and this is not surprising as many people with allergies are bound to find themselves exposed to the nuisance allergens at one time or another. The process of exposing someone to an allergen is termed _______.

As an EMT, it is not uncommon to encounter case of allergic reaction, and this is not surprising as many people with allergies are bound to find themselves exposed to the nuisance allergens at one time or another. The process of exposing someone to an allergen is termed _______.

One of the entry routes below is the most common as far as anaphylactic reaction causes as concerned, which is it?

One of the entry routes below is the most common as far as anaphylactic reaction causes as concerned, which is it?

Once EMT’s arrive at the emergency scene, their initial concern with regards to the patient is:

Anaphylactic shock is a kind of distributive shock, and in this case, the blood vessels are:

Following appropriate control of a patient’s airway is an emergency situation, administration of epinephrine should follow. Why is epinephrine preferable?

Syncope is caused by different things. When does a patient experience a syncopalepisode?

There are different entry routes through which accidental poisoning can happens. Which among those possible routes is most common?

There are many poisons that adversely affects people, but there are only a handful of antidotes. What, then, can one use as a treatment when there is a case of poisoning, but an antidote is not available?

How does poisonous ingestion happen in children?

There are people who inhale poison just to get high. What is the term used for such people?

Diagnosing food poisoning from a hospital environment can be difficult because there is a wide range of symptoms associated with food poisoning. It may take quite some time after food poisoning for the affected person to fall ill. Below is a list of ailments that are all foodborne apart from one. Which is it?

What is the common pulse for a newborn child?

For a child ages 1 to 6,  what is the common pulse rate?

What is the common pulse rate for a kid over 6 years old?

What is the accurate blood flow from the heart through the lungs?

The angina pectoris has a distinct dissimilarity with a myocardial infarction. What is it?

Constant mental and physical stress causes angina pectoris

On the right side of the heart, there is a three-flapped valve. What is the valve?

The sole purpose of the mitral valve is?

A clinician finds that his patient is experiencing discomfort in his chest and puts him in a comfortable position. What should the clinician do next to assist the 45-year-old man?

What should you do first when a 62-year-old patient with a history of heart illness complains that he is suffering from chest pains?

Ventricular fibrillation is often from the conversion of which heart rhythm?

The pain in cardiac arrests is usually defined as which of these characteristics by the patients?

The following are patients with various signs and symptoms ; which indicates cardiac compromise?

Among the four Chambers of the heart, which one pumps blood rich in oxygen to the rest of the body?

If you are alone and find yourself in a situation where a 64-year-old woman has collapsed due to a heart attack ; what is the next action to take after assessment and administration of two ventilations?

Upon arrival at a scene, you discover a patient whose mental status has been altered. After a quick scan, which of these items would help in pointing to the likely cause for his agitated state of mind?

When a patient isn’t responsive to your loud verbal stimuli and you come across these Medications –Lipitor and Glucophage – what is the most likely source of problem?

What would be your primary field diagnosis if your neurological evaluation of a patient that is not, responding reveals pinpoint pupils?

With a diabetic patient that gets 4 injections of insulin a day and has 18 breathes each minutes, what would be the most likely reason he was found unresponsive, tachycardicand diaphoretic?

A clinician would give 15 grams oral instant glucose to a diabetic patient that is experiencing hypoglycemia but not if the patient is _______

Which one of these is the first sign of diabetes in a lot of young patients and is often a fatal complication?

Apart from thirst, acetone on the breath, frequent urination, poor skin turgor, dry skin, altered mental status and confusion, which other indications are involved with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)?

The more common of the two kind of CVA is the ischemic stroke . Which of these is the other kind?

When the diagnosis of a condition is a TIA, the symptoms must resolve within 24 hours ______?

Between the cincinnatistroke scale and the loss Angle pre-hospital stroke screen, which tool uses arm drift as a diagnosis tool in the assessment of a patient with stroke?

Symptoms of a stroke are often similar to other various medical problem, and so, in order to prevent administering the wrong treatment, it is mandatory to work through the differences. An example is how hypoglycaemia is usually confused for a cerebral vascular accident. How could one rule out the difference?

Rapid transport to the stroke centre is by far a clinician’s preferred method of treatment and assessment for a stroke patient. Which of these presents the perfect timing for this from the beginning of the indicator till treatment?

Which of these statements about indication of a stroke would make a clinician highly suspicious?

During assessment, which of these highly suggests that a depressed patient is at a risk of suicide?

When blood is pumped out of the heart through the heart’s right ventricle, where does it go?

According to research, the biggest cause of shock inappropriately delivered by Automated External defibrillators (AEDs) is as a result of _______

Which of the statement below is correct when it comes to assessing cardiac compromised patients?

Which of the statement below is true regarding the heart’s left atrium?

AED pads are best applied to patients when they

What do you call the two chambers on the lower side of the heart?

Which valve is located between the heart’s right atrium and ventricle?

You arrive at the scene with an elderly male patient complaining of extreme chest pains. He has a history of heat problems. In such a scenario, what is the role medical direction plays?

You arrive at a scene with an elderly male patient complaining extreme chest pain. He has a history of heart problems. Without more medical directions, what dosage of nitroglycerinshould be given at most?

You arrive at a scene with an elderly male patient complaining extreme chest pain and experiencing breathing difficulties. He is overweight and is a high capacity chain smoker. Which condition is he likely to have?

You arrive at the scene with a young male patient who has a rapid pulse. When questioned, the patient says that he was running. With this information, what are your first thoughts?

You arrive at a scene with an elderly female patient whose heart had stopped. After administering one AED shock, she starts breathing, but at only 15 breaths a minute, and the carotid pulse is very strong. What do you do next?

You arrive at a scene to find a male patient who is 50 years of age having cardiac problems. What will happen if his heartbeat is too fast or slow?

You arrive at a scene to find a female patient who is 53 years of age and experiencing severe chest pains. After getting medical direction, you administer one nitro-glycerine tablet. What should you do next?

You are sent to a male patient who is 50 years of age and experiencing severe chest pains. Which of the following is q contraindication for giving nitroglycerin?

You are at a scene where a patient has just fallen from atop a ladder. When caring for the patient, what should not be taken into consideration?

You arrive at an MVA where there are three patients with visible but minor injuries. Two of the patients refuse treatment, while the third one complains of back and neck pain. What should be your next course of action?

You have a male patient who is 17 years of age who was found face down in the swimming pool. Currently, he is still in the pool, being held with his face above the water. He is breathing, with a steady pulse, although he is still unconscious. How should you proceed?

When a laceration spurts bright red blood, which kind of injury does it usually point to?

You have a patient with laceration on his right leg that has reached the femoral artery. Blood is still soaking past the bandages even though you’ve made sure there is pressure directly to the wound. What is the best course of action?

In a motor vehicle crash with impact to the front, the driver wasn’t restrained, the steering wheel is bent and the windshield is spidered. What type of energy transfer was there?

How would you classify a penetrating missile that is traveling at speeds exceeding 2,000 feet per second?

A permanent cavity is formed when a projectile contacts the tissues during penetrating trauma. How do temporary cavities develop?

________ often refers to the way a patient was injured.

What is the first thing you should do when you approach a trauma incident scene?

when a lot of blood collects under the skin, this is referred to as _______

You have a trauma patient whose left hand was caught in a conveyor belt in between rollers. It takes you 30 minutes to extricate the hand. During extrication, you observed that there was a delay in capillary refill distal to the injury. After extrication, you observed rapid capillary refill distal mid-palm to the deformity of the injury. There are no lacerations, no visible fractures and slight swelling. You know there are many problems that may occur as a result of crush injuries. Which of the choices below is not a complication of crush injuries?

Traumatic events may lead to tissue loss which may be a part of an extremity, a complete extremity or simply soft tissues. What would you call an injury when a patient loses the distal third of their lower extremity?

It is important to control bleeding whenever there is damaged tissue that causes bleeding due to a traumatic event. Which steps you should follow to control the bleeding?

You have a trauma patient who is 16 years of age and has what seems to be a femur fracture located mid-shaft. You see a laceration directly above where the fracture is suspected to be, and bleeding is under control. Which type of fracture could be this?

On the way to the hospital, a patient is intubated. During the assessment of the tube placement, a wheezing sound is heard from the lungs. What is the most likely cause of this wheezing sound?

An inhalation injury that occurs in the lower airway can cause wheezing and bronchospasm while an inhalation injury that occurs in upper airways can cause a hoarse voice and a high-pitched wheezing sound caused by the disrupted airflow. When one inhales byproducts of combustion, there is also a probability of a wheezing sound, and it is still considered an injury of the lower air-conducting passages.

which step among the following should a paramedic perform last after immobilizing and extreme fracture of the lower right arm?

You encounter a female patient who is 24 years of age and has a gunshot wound on her back. The wound where the bullet exited is not visible and the patient is awake although confused. You realize that she has pale skin and is diaphoretic, with cyanosis to her oral mucosa. The sounds of her breath are quite clear and strong.

The patient’s BP is 90/78 mm/Hg, heart rate 124 us bpm and respiratory rate is 28 per minute and strenuous. Sinus tachycardia is also noted on a cardiac monitor. What medical problem is likely to be affecting the patient most?

You encounter a boy who has just been hit by a baseball on his nose. The nose has been dislocated to the boy’s left and has moderate epitasis. The patient complains of extreme pain effecting the nose, but luckily he is conscious and alert. Which treatment sequence listed b would be the best to manage such a patient?

You have been called to attend to an elderly female patient who fell and injured her knee. The patient says thay she tripped before falling down, hitting her left knee first. She refutes having lost consciousness and having trauma affecting her head. The patient only complains of pains on her femur’s distal area. When assessing her, you realize that her femur has been deformed and is also swollen near the knee. You also note that the

Which among the following types of patients is most suitable to be referred for triage to a centre that doesn’t deal with trauma?

You are informed about a 37 year old man in your neighbourhood who cut his led as he was working in his backyard. Before you arrive, the patient’s wife, who happens to be a nurse, put pressure on the patient’s wound after which she let the patient rest in a Trendelenburg position. After assessing the patient, you note that he is receptive to painful impetuses with a feeble carotid pulse and his blood pressure cannot be obtained.

You also note that the patient is surrounded by a lot of blood. The wife informs you that it is an arterial wound and occurred between 10 to 15 minutes prior. Apart from oxygen therapy, which other medical treatments would you prioritize giving the patient?

Among the findings below, which is the most common and earliest where a crush injury is concerned?

A 26 year old woman has been rescued from a house which is on fire. She has suffered burns to her arms and chest. The patient says that she has minor pains where she was burned. What would you consider the most appropriate categorization of the patient’s burns?

You are informed of a 43 year old man who is engaged in an altercation and got hit in the face and the head by a baseball bat. He is unresponsive. After evaluating the patient, you realize there is instability in his face in the orbit to the mouth. From the information you have gathered, what is the best way to conclusively manage his airway?

A Gray or bluish skin coloration due to oxygen deficiency is referred to as?

What are you required to do for a patient whose oxygen saturation drops significantly after a few breaths of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by use of an Ambu-bag that has been connected to 100 percent oxygen?

What is the right amount of air required for injection into the cuff of an endotracheal tube?

What is the space between the epiglottis and tongue base referred to as?

A strange vocalization, difficult and gasping is all characteristics of which condition?

What is the longest time an Intubation attempt can take?

A sound thay is high pitched as a result of a turbulent flow of air in the upper airway is characteristic of which condition? It can be expiratory, inspiratory or there during expiration and inspiration.

the condition where one is unable to move sufficient air as required for perfusion is known as ___

Which one of the following is the wrong technique for confirmation of the correct placement of the endotracheal tube?

The tube that carry air to and from the lungs are referred to as _____.

Stomach expansion due to excess ventilation pressure that causes the extra air to enter the stomach as opposed to the lungs is referred to as what?

Which sign listed below is not an indication of breathing adequately?

Observing a patient’s ____ can help in detecting whether the patient is suffering from cyanosis.

A nasal and oral airway should:

Name the medication that increases breathing effectiveness and opens Bronchioles in patients suffering from shortness of breath.

You have a male patient who is 52 years old. He is suffering from dull chest pain. After assessment, you realize that his skin is clammy, cool and pale despite the fact that he is oriented and alert. What do you do next?

Cardiac compromise refers to:

Cardiac compromise is a term that describes different types of heart problems. It helps an EMT like you in identifying a cardiac problem without having to go above the scope of your practice.

What do AEDs treat in patients?

The heart rate of a 0-3 months old baby is said to be normal at?

What is the name of the valve that has two flaps and is on the left of the heart?

There are three main components that make up the vascular system which one is not one of these components?

Starting from outside, which layers cover the heart?

From the complaints below, which describes chest pain that is caused by cardiac complications?

Name the artery that carries blood that does not have oxygen and the vein that carries blood that has oxygen.

Which of these aren’t components of blood that cause clotting?

You have been dispatched to a female patient’s residence. She is 46 years old and suffering from diarrheal, nausea, abdominal cramping and vomiting. She says that she fell ill a short time after eating cheesecake. She is intolerant to lactose. Her BP test shows 136/88.Pulse is 94 bpm while the rate of respiration is 18 breaths in a minute. Before your arrival, she vomited twice. Give your diagnosis.

You have a male patient who is 32 years old. He complains of a severe crushing feeling at the center of the chest and difficulty in breathing which started when he was moving the lawn three quarters of an hour before your arrival. The pain stimuli seems to be working on him. At the moment, he has adequate ventilation, pulse is 95 percent, and his skin is cool, diaphoretic and pale. Your first action would be to give :

Your patient, who is 76 years old, has swelling in the legs and is in a wheelchair. After assessment, it is confirmed that she has enema. You do a bilateral pulse palpitation. The skin is pink, dry and warm. The lungs are clear. Which of the following conditions could she be suffering from?

Your patient is 49 years old and is complaining of pain between the shoulder blades and radiating to the lower back. The pain is constant and started 10 minutes before you arrived, while the patient was eating. Told to rate the pain, the patient gives it a 10/10 and describes it as sharp and tearing. The BP is 130/76 and 78/48 in the right and left arms respectively. Pulse is 98 bom and is regular while the rayed of respiration is 20 per min and is non laboured. Which of the following conditions would you suspect?

Death in America is mostly caused by?

Death in America is mostly caused by?

The highest running speed of a nasal canola should be:

The description below refers to which device?

It’s intended to ease a patient’s sightless intubation and comprises cuffed double – lumen tube whose one end is blind. The cuff’s rise permits this device to carry out a role as the endotracheal tube and ends the oesophagus, permitting air passage as well as avoiding gastric reflux substances.

To provide oxygen therapy at «100 percent», what should be the flow rate’s reading?

A man falls from a ladder, which leads to him suffering respiratory pain. Which air passage tactic could you use?

From the terminologies listed below, please identify which one refers to a device which transports a certain medicine quantity towards the lungs as a small burst if aerosolized medication which is gasped down by patients.

The air passage comprises high as well as low airways. The higher airway begins from the mouth and nares, which is concluded at_______.

The most common obstruction of the airway is the tongue, which drops to the back and occludes the_____?

A person’s airway on the lower side has its end where the alveoli are found, and that is where exchange of gases occurs. Oxygen enters the hemoglobin through the semi-permeable membrane. The place where this occurs is______.

The diaphragm reduces moving_______in order to generate force at the thorax or chest cavity. This increases the thorax’s volume, letting air rush inside the lungs.

The diaphragm recovers its domed figure when it relaxes. The act brings about a rise in thoracic force that pushes the air from the person’s lungs. Force at the thorax is required to increase over______pressure in order to ensure air is pushed from the lungs.

The diaphragm recovers its domed figure when it relaxes. The act brings about a rise in thoracic force that pushes the air from the person’s lungs. Force at the thorax is required to increase over______pressure in order to ensure air is pushed from the lungs.

What ventilation technique has higher chances of yielding the minimal tidal volume?

To help with intubation, a paramedic could make use of sellick’s manenver, a procedure where the cartilage being compressed is the_____.

You are transporting an elderly man experiencing respiratory distress and who also has been diagnosed in the past with COPD.

The unwell male has very light breathing with slight chest – wall movement as well as minor wheezing at the higher lung fields. Given these symptoms, your arterial CO2 intensities expectations would be_______.

You are transporting an ailing 48-year-old man from one medical facility to another. From the past record, you notice the man fell while working which led to his hip fracture as well as a head injury. At the moment, the man is going through laboured inhalation of 30 per minute which has gradually become worse over the past day. The heart’s frequency is 104, while blood pressure is 98/70.On listening, you notice diffuse rates on auscultation. The patient refutes pain experiences apart from the ones in relation to falling not al long agi. The greatest source of his respiratory pain would be?

The best method when it comes to administering ventilations to a patient who is apneic is_____.

You arrive at an emergency scene and notice it seems like a domestic argument is going on regarding molestation of a child. You want to ask a child who is 5 years old about habits of elimination. Identify the word that would be appropriate to use.

If you are put in charge of designing a deployment plan for ambulances within the EMS system in your own community, and you are aiming at minimizing response time even as you utilize every available resource in the most efficient, cost-effective manner possible, which piece of information from the choices provided below would you consider of utmost value?

Which statement associated with continuous education does the public most value?

You are called to an industrial compound in a neighbourhood where an incident is linked to potentially hazardous material. You are immediately informed that the number of employees affected is around 30 and also that there are many whom fumes have affected.

The term responsible for dealing with hazardous materials has been sent out, and it is estimated it will arrive at the emergency scene 20 minutes after the accidents.

On reaching the scene, you find a worker at the entrance who informs you of the apparent contamination source, which is huge white tank. There is a symbol, NFPA704″ with several colors, and within a bluish diamond ‘4’ is written, and another diamond that is yellow. A white diamond contains no number.

An EMTs would benefit most from stress management following a critical incident such as the :

If you release a patient’s information to a newspaper and tha patient considers that slander and sues you, what particular area of the statute could that patient’s suit be based on?

What would you say is the importance of EMTs and other paramedics completing a checklist of a equipment as every shift begins?