EMT Chapter 28 Quiz

A patient with a head injury presents with abnormal flexion of his extremities. What numeric value should you assign to him for motor response?

3

Which of the following statements regarding secondary brain injury is correct?

Hypoxia and hypotension are the two most common causes of secondary brain injury.

Which of the following breathing patterns is MOST indicative of increased intracranial pressure?

Irregular rate, pattern, and volume of breathing with intermittent periods of apnea

When activated, the sympathetic nervous system produces all of the following effects, EXCEPT:

Pupillary Contriction.

What part of the nervous system controls the body's voluntary activities?

Somatic

Which of the following statements regarding motor nerves is correct?

They carry information from the CNS to the muscles.

A man jumped from the roof of his house and landed on his feet. He complains of pain to his heels, knees, and lower back. This mechanism of injury is an example of:

axial loading.

The _________ is the best-protected part of the CNS and controls the functions of the cardiac and respiratory systems.

brain stem

The tough, fibrous outer meningeal layer is called the:

dura mater.

The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is used to assess:

eye opening, verbal response, and motor response

In a patient with a head injury, hypertension, bradycardia, and Biot respirations indicate:

herniation of the brain stem.

Once a cervical collar has been applied to a patient with a possible spinal injury, it should not be removed unless:

it causes a problem managing the airway.

A tight-fitting motorcycle helmet should be left in place unless:

it interferes with your assessment of the airway.

The ideal procedure for moving an injured patient from the ground to a backboard is:

the four-person log roll.

When immobilizing a trauma patient's spine, the EMT manually stabilizing the head should not let go until:

the patient has been completely secured to the backboard.