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You are responding to a call for a 60-year-old male with a history of heart disease who is experiencing chest pain. Upon your arrival on scene, you find the patient in moderate distress, diaphoretic, and with a blood pressure of 90/60 mmHg. The patient is alert and states he has taken his prescribed nitroglycerin but still has persistent pain.  Enroute to the hospital:  You decide to administer aspirin (chewable 325 mg) and prepare for potential nitroglycerin administration, depending on his vital signs. You also consider using oxygen to assist with his breathing.  On Scene:  You assess the patient further and note a heart rate of 110 bpm and an oxygen saturation of 92%. You have protocols that allow you to administer nitroglycerin if the blood pressure is above 100 mmHg.  If the patient reports a headache after nitroglycerin administration, what does this indicate?

Where should you place your hands when performing a fundal massage?

Asking others (other people, Google, Siri, etc.) for help during the test is prohibited.

Use of search engines, such as Google/Firefox/Safari/Opera, navigating to other sites, or using other browsers than the one being used to take the exam are prohibited actions during the test.

71) Name the origin of the digastric muscle anterior belly.

47) What combination of motions would maximally stretch the pronator teres?

I understand that I will be recorded during my testing session. Even though I am in the comfort of my own home, I will behave as though I am in a classroom, fully dressed, and will refrain from the use of inappropriate language or other conversation.

80) All of the tissues listed are at risk of being pinched within the supra-humeral arch (aka coraco-acromial arch, subacromial space) EXCEPT:

82) A person with damage to Cranial Nerve VII would experience which of the following?

While providing care to a 51-year-old complaining of a severe headache, your paramedic partner asks you to establish an IV at a KVO rate. What is the purpose of the KVO rate for this IV?