EMT Basics Jeopardy

Scene size-up, airway, vitals, trauma, and medical emergencies for EMT students. Copy the board for free and quiz the class with phones as buzzers.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Scene Size-Up

$200
On arrival at any call, this comes first, before patient care begins.
What is scene safety?
$400
BSI, the older name for precautions against blood and body fluids, stands for this.
What is body substance isolation?
$600
During size-up, the EMT identifies the mechanism of injury for trauma, or this for a medical patient.
What is the nature of illness?
$800
This responder reference, abbreviated ERG, helps responders identify hazardous materials by placard number.
What is the Emergency Response Guidebook?
$1,000
Under the Incident Command System, this person has overall authority for managing the incident.
Who is the incident commander?

Primary Assessment

$200
In AVPU, the letter P stands for a response to this.
What is pain?
$400
For an unresponsive patient with no pulse, the primary assessment order shifts from ABC to this.
What is CAB?
$600
In an unresponsive infant, the EMT checks the pulse at this artery in the upper arm.
What is the brachial artery?
$800
A capillary refill time longer than this many seconds suggests poor perfusion, most reliably in children.
What is 2?
$1,000
Borrowed from military medicine, this acronym puts massive hemorrhage first, then airway, respirations, circulation and hypothermia.
What is MARCH?

Airway and Breathing

$200
This airway maneuver is used instead of the head-tilt, chin-lift when a spinal injury is suspected.
What is the jaw-thrust maneuver?
$400
An oropharyngeal airway should be used only in a patient who lacks this reflex.
What is the gag reflex?
$600
This high-pitched sound on inhalation suggests a partial upper airway obstruction.
What is stridor?
$800
A nasopharyngeal airway is sized by measuring from the tip of the patient's nose to this part of the ear.
What is the earlobe?
$1,000
Breathing that grows deeper and then shallower, with periods of apnea, is this pattern.
What is Cheyne-Stokes respiration?

Vital Signs and Scales

$200
A normal adult resting pulse runs from 60 up to this many beats per minute.
What is 100?
$400
The top number of a blood pressure reading is this pressure.
What is systolic?
$600
This mnemonic for assessing pain covers onset, provocation, quality, region, severity and time.
What is OPQRST?
$800
The Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale tests facial droop, arm drift and this.
What is speech?
$1,000
Rising blood pressure, a slowing pulse and irregular respirations make up this sign of increased intracranial pressure.
What is Cushing's triad?

Trauma Care

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When direct pressure fails on a life-threatening limb bleed, apply this device above the wound.
What is a tourniquet?
$400
Under the rule of nines, each adult arm counts for this percentage of body surface area.
What is 9 percent?
$600
An open, sucking chest wound should be covered with this type of airtight dressing.
What is an occlusive dressing?
$800
Beck's triad of muffled heart sounds, distended neck veins and low blood pressure signals this condition.
What is cardiac tamponade?
$1,000
Tracheal deviation away from the injured side is a late sign of this life-threatening chest injury.
What is tension pneumothorax?

Medical Emergencies

$200
Fruity breath and deep, rapid Kussmaul respirations point to this diabetic emergency.
What is diabetic ketoacidosis?
$400
For anaphylaxis, an EMT may help the patient use an auto-injector of this drug.
What is epinephrine?
$600
For suspected cardiac chest pain, EMTs commonly give 160 to 325 mg of this, chewed.
What is aspirin?
$800
A seizure lasting more than 5 minutes, or repeated seizures without recovery in between, is this emergency.
What is status epilepticus?
$1,000
Seizures in a pregnant patient after 20 weeks, with high blood pressure, indicate this condition.
What is eclampsia?

Final Jeopardy — Assessment Scales

On the Glasgow Coma Scale, a fully alert patient who opens their eyes spontaneously, is oriented, and obeys commands receives this maximum total score.

What is 15?

How to run this board

This board follows the order an EMT works a call: scene size-up and safety, the primary assessment, airway and breathing, vital signs and scales, trauma care, and common medical emergencies.

It is a study aid for students in an accredited EMT program, not a substitute for the course, skills practice, or local protocols. Where protocols vary by region, accept the answer your program teaches.

Play it in teams named after rigs or crews, and add a house rule borrowed from the skills exam: before answering any trauma or medical clue, the team has to say the scene is safe. Forgetting costs the points, just as it would on a practical exam.

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