Emergency Medical Responder 7th Edition AAOS – Questions/Answers
Question: What is the anatomic position of a patient?
Correct answer: Standing facing you with arms at the side and
the palms of the hands facing outward
Question: What does the term "anterior" refer to?
Correct answer: front
Question: Is it true that the chest is located on the anterior
side of the body?
Correct answer: True, Anterior = Front
Question: During your assessment of a 21-year-old man who
fell from a roof, you note bruising on the medial side of the anterior trunk. What part of the body is this describing?
Correct answer: Toward the midline on the front part of the
torso
Question: In relation to the nose, where are the eyes located?
Correct answer: lateral
Question: Is it true that the wrist is distal to the elbow?
Correct answer: True
Question: What is the location of a lateral body part?
Correct answer: Away from the midline of the body
Question: What is the function of the respiratory system?
Correct answer: Bringing oxygen into the body and removing
carbon dioxide
Question: What is the structure that prevents food or liquid
from entering the larynx?
Correct answer: epiglottis
Question: Which of the following is not an upper airway
structure: A) Larynx, B) Alveoli, C) Pharynx, D) Epiglottis?
Correct answer: B) Alveoli
Question: What are the narrower passages called that the
airway within the lungs branches into?
Correct answer: bronchioles
Question: When does the rate of a person's breathing
increase?
Correct answer: the body generates additional carbon dioxide
Question: When is air inhaled into the lungs?
Correct answer: contracts and moves downward in the chest
Question: When does exhalation occur?
Correct answer: the diaphragm relaxes and moves upward in
the chest
Question: What is the circulatory system responsible for?
Correct answer: pumping blood through the body
Question: What happens to blood after it picks up oxygen in
the lungs?
Correct answer: returns to the left side of the heart
Question: What is the function of the right ventricle?
Correct answer: pump blood to lungs
Question: Why is the left ventricle the most muscular
chamber of the heart?
Correct answer: must pump blood throughout the entire body
Question: How do arteries differ from veins?
Correct answer: carry blood away from the heart under high
pressure