Critical Care Transport Exam with Questions and 100% Correct Answers
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Critical Care Paramedic
Institution
Critical Care Paramedic
Receiving facility physician - In preparation for transport, the sending facility physician must
have identified and communicated with a __________ in order to initiate the patient transfer.
The physician assistant - The transferring neonatal orders a neonatal physician assistant to
your transpo...
Critical Care Transport Exam with
Questions and 100% Correct
Answers
Contact the receiving facilities physician - ✔✔How do you manage a patient when a sending
physician refuses to allow you to treat a patient appropriately according to your protocols?
Medical command physician orders - ✔✔What is necessary for a CCTP to act outside of his or her
protocols?
Perform basic resuscitation, then seek clarification - ✔✔During the hand-off report from the
transferring nurse, he tells you that the patient has a DNR and only wants comfort measures performed.
En-route, the patient codes but you are unable to find the patient's DNR in the chart. How do you
manage the cardiac arrest?
Laboratory and diagnostic tests - ✔✔__________ may be disclosed for payment and insurance
reasons.
EMTALA - ✔✔What guidelines determine the appropriate level of care for transportation?
Receiving facility physician - ✔✔In preparation for transport, the sending facility physician must
have identified and communicated with a __________ in order to initiate the patient transfer.
The physician assistant - ✔✔The transferring neonatal orders a neonatal physician assistant to
your transport team for the transfer of an 1,800-g neonate with an intraventricular hemorrhage and
hydrocephalus. What dictates the management of the patient's care during this transport?
,The sending facility cannot perform the needed interventions - ✔✔When is it acceptable to
transfer an unstable patient from a facility?
When a patient arrives on hospital property - ✔✔When is a hospital bound by EMTALA regulations?
Battery - ✔✔What did you witness if you see a patient's spouse strike the patient's face with an
open hand across the cheak?
Patient rights - ✔✔What allows individuals to accepts or refuse treatment, to receive
appropriate care, and to receive care without interruption?
The plaintiff - ✔✔Who is responsible for the burden of proof in an negligence case filed against
a CCTP?
Obtain written orders to transport the medication infusion - ✔✔How do you manage the ground
transport of a patient on an infusion unaddressed in your protocols but that you received education
on during the recruit academy?
Complete utilization of the facilities available resources - ✔✔What must a transferring facility do
in order to stabilize a patient prior to transport, according to EMTALA?
Ask the physician to adjust the order or to send appropriate personnel - ✔✔While reviewing the
physician's written orders, you notice PRN interventions that exceed your scope of practice. How do you
manage the transport?
Informed consent - ✔✔What type of consent is obtained after you discuss the treatment
and transport plan with the patient and patient's family?
Current diagnosis and interventions - ✔✔What information must be sent with a patient during
all interfacility patient transfers?
,Online medical control - ✔✔While a CCTP contacts their medical director for additional medication
doses, he or she is operating under:
At any point the CCTP is present - ✔✔When does an adult patient of sound mind have the right
to refuse treatment by a CCTP?
Emancipated minors - ✔✔Minors who have assumed most adult responsibilities before reaching
the age of majority, such as those who are married, pregnant, in the armed forces, or financially
independent and living away from home, are known as:
False imprisonment - ✔✔__________ is the intentional and unjustifiable detention of a person
without his or her consent or other legal authority.
Informed - ✔✔The CCTP has an obligation to obtain __________ consent for air medical transport,
including a written statement that the patient understands the risks and benefits of transport.
The patient's spouse - ✔✔Who must receive a privacy statement prior to transport of a chemically
sedated and paralyzed patient if no power of attorney has been made and numerous family members
are present?
Discuss the concerns with the family and sending physician - ✔✔Your pediatric CCT unit arrives at a
regional hospital to transport a 3-day old infant with atrioventricular septal defect that is extremely
unstable. As you enter the room of the level I NICU, the parents are alarmed and agitated. Uninformed
and confused about the transport, the father says, "This hospital is the best in the state," and declines
the transport. How do you manage this patient?
Implied - ✔✔What type of consent is granted for a patient found unresponsive and seizures?
Adverse drug event - ✔✔You've administered vecoronium and realized you forgot to administer
midazolam. Your partner pushes the midazolam but the patient's heart rate continues to rise. You notice
the line was clamped and the bolus went into the bag. What type of incident occurred?
, All of these are correct (ensure that the patient is securely fastened to the stretcher; remain seated
and secured with seatbelt applied as much as possible; and, ensure all loose equipment is secured and
equipment lockers are closed) - ✔✔During ground transport of a critically injured patient, a CCTP
should be mindful to:
Scope creep - ✔✔Requiring EMS providers to make decisions they are not trained to make, based
on the availability of new procedures, interventions, and diagnostic tools, is known as a type of:
A universal time-out - ✔✔Once everything is in place for an RSI, what can be done to improve
team communication prior to performing the RSI?
Root-cause analysis - ✔✔What is a systematic approach to understanding the causes of
serious adverse events and helps identify system flaws that must be corrected in order to
mitigate future incidents?
Simulation - ✔✔The use of __________ allows health care providers to hone their skills in a safe
environment without risk of patient harm.
A near miss - ✔✔The patient's IV line gets caught on the transferring facility's bed as you're
leaving and the RT adjusts the tubing so you can leave without an issue. What is this considered?
Handoff reports - ✔✔Issues with communication with __________ have resulted in loss of key
patient information.
Just culture - ✔✔Medical errors during critical care transport regularly result in harm or potential
harm to patients. Viewing these errors as the outcomes of human-error, at-risk behavior, or reckless
behavior is a concept designed to differentiate the different types of error, and is also known as:
A highly reliable organization - ✔✔What type of organization focuses on managing its
inevitable failures, helping to reduce their effects on patient care?
Slip - ✔✔What is a lapse in concentration that occurs in the face of distraction?
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