Sample EMT Airway, Respiration, & Ventilation Quiz

You are treating an 18-year-old male with asthma. The patient states he is out of his medications and has been wheezing for the last 2 hours. The patient is breathing 38 times per minute, his blood pressure is 136/84, heart rate 118/min, and pulse oximeter reading is 97%. You auscultate breath sounds and hear slight wheezing in the upper lung fields. The patient complains of chest pain and tingling in his arms. He also says that he feels very short of breath.

What would be the next course of action for this patient?

How do you ventilate a patient with a stoma?

For a nonrebreather mask to deliver up to 90% inspired oxygen, you must ensure the ____________ is inflated.

You assess a patient with difficulty breathing who has a history of COPD and is breathing through pursed lips. What is the patient trying to do while breathing through pursed lips?

You have been dispatched to a private residence for a 24-year-old male having a seizure. Upon arrival at the scene, you find the patient lying on the living room floor in a postictal state. As you approach the patient, you note that he is breathing at 14 breaths per minute. The victim’s sister stated that she called 911 after she walked into the house and found her brother lying on the ground seizing.

Your initial approach to this patient should include:

You respond to an unresponsive patient at a local festival. Upon your arrival, bystanders say the patient has been drinking heavily. As you assess the patient, you note a heavy odor of alcohol. The patient is responsive to painful stimuli, has gurgling respirations and vomitus on his face, and breathing deeply at 14 times per minute.

What are the initial airway management priorities for this patient?

While performing one-person CPR on a patient, you should use a ______ ratio for compressions to ventilation for the adult patient and a _____ ratio for a child patient.

What is the most significant advantage of the two-person method of providing positive pressure ventilation via bag-valve-mask?

You respond to the scene of a 37-year-old male patient complaining of acute shortness of breath. He has a history of status asthmaticus when exposed to certain types of chemicals. You discover that he started a new job today as a custodian, and he has been stripping the floors this morning. Upon your arrival, he is sitting in the tripod position in obvious distress. He is slightly cyanotic in his nail beds, his respiratory rate is 34 with poor volume, and he has audible wheezes. His blood pressure is 146/82 mmHg, and his pulse is 102.

What is the most appropriate method for delivering oxygen to this patient?

Hyperventilation results in which of the following?