NREMT-AEMT-Special POP

  1. Elder abuse occurs MOST commonly in:
    Females over the age of 75
  2. Syncope in the older patient is:
    caused by an interruption of blood flow to the brain.
  3. The EMT should suspect left-sided heart failure in the geriatric patient who presents with:
    tachypnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea.
  4. An abdominal aortic aneurysm:
    is often the result of hypertension and atherosclerosis.
  5. A productive cough, fever, and chills in an 80-year-old patient with a compromised immune system should make you MOST suspicious for:
    pneumonia
  6. Sedentary behavior while healing from a hip fracture would MOST likely predispose the older patient to:
    pneumonia
  7. During the natural process of aging, the number of functional cilia in the respiratory system decreases, resulting
    a decreased ability to cough.
  8. With age, the spine stiffens as a result of shrinkage of the intervertebral disc spaces, and the vertebrae
    • become brittle. This increases the risk of:
    • compression fractures.
Author
hughes7
ID
329334
Card Set
NREMT-AEMT-Special POP
Description
Pediatics, geriatrics
Updated