Correct Answer: A

While all of theses structures are in the same general area, the paramedic specifically utilizes the Cricoid cartilage. This is particularly important since this is the only "full ring" cartilage

Correct Answer: B

Cyanosis occurs when the oxygen saturation of arterial blood falls below 85-90%. It is often presents in the lips and nail beds first.

Correct Answer: B

The maximum dosage amount is three tablets, or sprays, without additional medical direction.

Correct Answer: B

If this patients becomes to bradycardic or tachicardic, they may go unconscious due to inadequate perfusion

Correct Answer: A

The mechanism of injury transfers energy to the patient causing a pattern of injury which is predictable. The way a patient is injured is referred to as the Mechanism of injury a frontal impact auto accident is the mechanism of injury. This allows the clinician to predict the type of injuries the patient may have and predict their response to treatment. Injury pattern can be predicted by looking a the mechanism of injury.

Correct Answer: C

The most common spinal injury is injury to the cervical spine, but improper lifting techniques result in lumbar injuries. Common lumbar injures are buldging and/or compressed vertebra. You must remember to lift with your legs and knees and not your back.

Correct Answer: A

Primary Blast Injuries are caused by the compression of air filled organs by an overpressure wave, typically affecting the tympanic membranes, lungs, stomach, intestines, and sinuses. Toxic Exposure to Natural Gas may cause nausea, diarrhea, dizziness, headache, and labored breathing, but would not explain diminished hearing or acute abdominal pain. Secondary Blast Injury refers to trauma caused by flying shrapnel or debris, while Tertiary Blast Injury refers to trauma caused when a patient is thrown from the blast area and strikes an object or the ground.

Correct Answer: D

The only time you want to remove an impaling object is when it is obstructing the airway, as doing so may cause uncontrolled bleeding and even death. Cutting the object will cause the object to move and could result in further injury.

Correct Answer: A

While the patient may be suffering from a basilar skull fracture, you are not able to determine that in the field. The best answer is a severe head injury.

Correct Answer: D

Epilepsy is medical conditon where the patient often suffers seizures. Tonic-clonic and focal motor are types of seizure activity and a postictal state is the period of time after a seizure where the patient is slow to respond and is possibly unresponsive where the brain is resetting and resting.