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NREMT Paramedic Questions and Answers Rated A+ What is Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA) ✔✔Systemic and Pulmonary circulations are parallel rather than in a series What is Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Ret ...

NREMT Paramedic Questions and Answers Rated A+ What is Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA) ✔✔Systemic and Pulmonary circulations are parallel rather than in a series What is Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (TAPVR) ✔✔Congenital heart defect in which 4 pulmonary veins that carry 02 rich blood back to the heart from the heart from the lungs are not properly attached to the atrium What causes Respiratory Alkalosis ✔✔Hyperventilation, anxiety, Pulmonary Embolism, fear, mechanical ventilation What are symptoms of Respiratory Alkalosis ✔✔Deep rapid ventilation, hypokalemia, nausea and vomit, tachycardia, lethargy/confusion, numbness and tingling, low or normal BP, light headed-ness, raised PH level, Lowered PC02 What causes Respiratory Acidosis ✔✔Hypoventilation, overdose on sedatives, aspiration, atelectasis, pneumothorax, emphesema What are symptoms of Respiratory Acidosis ✔✔muscle weakness, unconsciousness, headache, drowsiness, palpitations, dizziness, ventricular fibrillation What causes Metabolic Alkalosis ✔✔severe vomiting, excessive suctioning, diuretic use, excessive NaHC03 What are symptoms of Metabolic Alkalosis ✔✔restless/lethargy, confusion (lowered level of conscious, dizzy, irritable), tachy dysrhythmias, nausea, vomit and diarrhea, tremors, muscle cramps, hypokalemia What causes Metabolic Acidosis ✔✔Increases (H) acid production, DKA, hypermetabolism, lowered H elimination (renal failure), lowered HC03 production (dehydration, liver failure), raised HC03 elimination (diarrhea) What are symptoms of Metabolic Acidosis ✔✔headache, muscle twitch, lowered BP, vasodilation (warm, flushed skin), hyperkalemia, nausea/vomit, decreased muscle tone, kussmaul respirations, lowered reflexes Official Name ✔✔followed by the initials USP or NF, most cases official name is the same as the generic name What is Pharmacokinetics ✔✔the study of how the body handles a drug over a period of time What is Pharmacodynamic ✔✔the study of how drugs act on a living organism Cholinergic Drug ✔✔Parasympathomimetic Cholinergic Blocking Drug ✔✔Parasympatholytic Adrenic Drug ✔✔Sympathomimetic Adrenergic Blocking Drugs ✔✔Sympatholytic Parasympathomimetic ✔✔mimic the actions of the parasympathetic nervous system Parasympatholytic ✔✔block the actions of the parasympathetic nervous system Sympathomimetic ✔✔mimics the actions of the sympathetic nervous system Sympatholytic ✔✔blocks the actions of the sympathetic nervous system What are the signs/symptoms of Ruptured Ovarian Cyst ✔✔localized, one-sided lower abdominal pain. Onset of pain associated with minimal abdominal trauma, sex or exercise vaginal bleed or late/missed period at time of rupture What are the signs/symptoms of Ovarian Torsion ✔✔sudden onset of lower abdomen pain (usually right sided), may radiated to back, pelvis or thigh begins with exercise, sharp/stab pain with nausea or vomit Cystitis ✔✔(frequent urge to urinate, with little urine) painful urination, fever, chills, lower abdominal pain, foul smell/blood Endometritis ✔✔inflammation of the uterine lining, usually after child birth, or abortion (retained placental tissue) fever purulent vaginal discharge, lower abdominal pain Endometriosis ✔✔growth of endomitrial tissue outside of the uterus painful particularly dysmenorrhea painful defecation suprapubic soreness vaginal spotting of blood before period Position Paper on Trauma Center Designation ✔✔US Department of Health and Human Services 1980 Newton's Second Law of Motion ✔✔Force= mass x acceleration or deceleration Battle's Sign ✔✔bruising over the mastoid process resulting from fracture to the temporal bone Raccoon's Eyes ✔✔black eyes caused from fracture to the base of the sphenoid sinus Hemotympanum ✔✔blood behind the tympanic membrane caused by fractures to the temporal bone Depressed Skull Fracture ✔✔caused by small object strikes head at high speed, commonly associated with scalp lacerations, hematoma and cerebral contusions Open Vault Fractures ✔✔opening between a scalp laceration and brain tissue exists c-spine immbilization, vent support, prevent contamination, rapid transport