Chapter 18 - Post Test
Which of the following drugs comes in two different medication forms?
Nitroglycerin
In its pure form, what element is used as a drug to treat any patient whose medical or traumatic condition may cause the patient to be hypoxic?
Oxygen
Which of the following medications is used to correct hypoxia?
Oxygen
How would your knowledge of pharmacodynamics affect the way you administered a medication to a 4-year-old patient?
Pediatric patients often require smaller doses than do adults.
Which of the following statements is correct?
Which of the following statements is correct?
After administration of nitroglycerin, your patient develops hypotension, a drop in blood pressure. This is called:
a side effect
Which of the following shows the best documentation of a dose of nitroglycerin that was given to a patient?
"Nitro 0.4 mg spray was administered sublingual at 1730 hrs with relief of chest pain."
Your patient has taken an unknown quantity of amitriptyline. Which class of medication is this?
Antidepressant
Which of the following is an antidysrhythmic agent?
Calan
Which of the following is the definition of contraindications?
Circumstances under which it is not appropriate to administer a medication to a patient
The patient's IV is not running properly. Which of the following would be a likely cause?
Clamp on tubing closed
Your patient is having chest pain, and has a bottle of prescribed nitroglycerin. However, the expiration date has worn off the bottle, and the patient does not know how old the medication is. What is your best course of action?
Contact medical direction for advice.
Which of the following medications is typically administered by EMTs to patients who are suffering severe allergic reactions?
Epinephrine
Which of the following components is not typically readied in setting up an IV administration set?
IV needle
Which of the following must be included on your PCR after administration of a medication to your patient?
The effects of the drug
Epinephrine, which is administered for severe allergic reactions, helps to reverse the effects of the allergic reaction by:
relaxing airway passages
An example of a suspension administered by EMTs is:
activated charcoal
Which of the following statements about medication administration is correct?
Once the medication has been administered, you cannot take it back.
What is the best way to ensure that you understood the orders given by on-line medical direction?
Repeat the orders back to the physician.
Which of the following would be considered one of the "five rights" of medication administration?
Right dose
An EMT is ordered by medical direction to administer nitroglycerin sublingually to a patient with chest pain. The EMT places the nitroglycerin tablet on the patient's tongue and tells her to chew and swallow the medication. The EMT has failed in which of the "five rights" of medication administration?
Right route of administration
If a medication has an intranasal route of administration, it is administered via the:
nose
The route describes how the medication is actually given to or taken by the patient. Which of the following is true of medication routes?
The route that is chosen controls how fast the medication is absorbed by the body.
Which of the following is the appropriate route for sublingual nitroglycerin administration by the EMT?
Under the tongue