NREMT AEMT PREP QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A
M.O.I. ✔✔Mechanism of Injury, vehicles, falls etc.
what do you generally set oxygen to? ✔✔15L/M
How to open airway for a trauma victim? ✔✔chin lift/jaw thrust
apneic ✔✔n
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NREMT AEMT PREP QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A
M.O.I. ✔✔Mechanism of Injury, vehicles, falls etc.
what do you generally set oxygen to? ✔✔15L/M
How to open airway for a trauma victim? ✔✔chin lift/jaw thrust
apneic ✔✔not breathing
N.O.I ✔✔nature of illness
AVPU ✔✔Alert, verbal/vocal, pain, unconscious
skin CTC ✔✔color,temperature, condition (normal is warm,pink and dry)
hypoperfusion ✔✔Shock.... decreased delivery of oxygen and nutrients to cells)
OPQRST ✔✔for conditions occuring right now (medical) Onset, Provocation, quality,radiation,
severity, time
Onset ✔✔What were you doing when this happened? did it happen suddenly or gradually? could
...... have caused this?
Provocation ✔✔What makes your pain feel better or worse? does it hurt when you do .........?
quality ✔✔How would you describe your pain? what does your pain feel like?
radiation ✔✔Where does it hurt the most? is it staying in one spot? where was it when the pain
started
severity ✔✔on scale of 1 to 10 how bad is your pain?
time ✔✔how long has it been since the pain started?
signs versus symptoms ✔✔signs: something you see
symptoms: something they tell you
nitroglycerin ✔✔vasodilation of coronary arteries
What is first priority after personal safety? ✔✔patient care
brady (root) ✔✔below normal, slow
tachy (root) ✔✔above normal, rapid
tachypnea ✔✔rapid breathing
plegia ✔✔paralysis of the limbs quadraplegia (four limbs) quad=4
bilateral ✔✔both sides
dorsal/ventral ✔✔dorsal: back of body
ventral: front of body
palmar/plantar ✔✔palmar: palm of the hand
plantar: sole of the foot
where to place stethescope for lung sounds? ✔✔mid-clavicular lines
fowler position ✔✔sitting up
integumentary system ✔✔forms protective barrier and aids in temperature regulation (skin, hair,
nails and sweat glands)
zygomatic ✔✔bones that form the structure of the cheeks
proximate cause ✔✔when what you did caused further harm.
why would you use an emergency move? ✔✔scene is unsafe, you must get to other patients, care
of life threatening injuries requires repositioning
when to use a urgent move? ✔✔when patients condition is declining: backboarding, removing
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