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TEST BANK FOR:Prehospital Emergency Care 12th Edition
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By Joseph J. Mistovich, Keith J. Karren |All Chapters, Year-
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2024/2025
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Chapter 1 Emergency Care Systems, Research, and Public Health
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1) What is a primary purpose of the modern-day EMS system?
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A) Provide a means of transport to and from the hospital `. `. `. `. `. `. `. `. `.
B) Ensure that all members of society have equal access to hospitals
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C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and illness`. `. `. `. `. `. `. `. `. `. `.
D) Provide emergency health care services to medically underserved `. `. `. `. `. `. `.
areasAnswer: C
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2) Most authorities agree that the modern-day EMS system evolved after the release of
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whichdocument?
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A) The Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
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B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of
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ModernSociety" in 1966
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C) The American Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiac Resuscitation
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D) Emergency Medical Services: Agenda for the Future, in `. `. `. `. `. `. `.
1996Answer: B
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Objective: 1-2 ` .
3) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that he would like to work for
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your emergency ambulance service on a full-time basis. Knowing the National EMS Scope
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ofPractice Model, you inform him of which element?
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A) He will be able to take care of only patients with non-life-threatening complaints
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B) He will first need approval from your ambulance service's medical director
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C) He will be able to work only with an Advanced EMT or paramedic
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D) He will first have to become an Emergency Medical
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TechnicianAnswer: D
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4) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of
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EMSpractitioners include:
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A) Ambulance drivers `.
B) EMS medical `.
directorC) Paramedics
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D) Emergency medical dispatchers
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, 5) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that he is interested
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inbecoming an EMT. Specifically, he asks what he will be able to do as an EMT that he cannot
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presently do as an EMR. You respond by saying he will be able to:
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A) Administer some medications `. `.
B) Assist in emergency childbirth `. `. `.
C) Use an automated external defibrillator `. `. `. `.
D) Obtain vital `.
signsAnswer: A
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Objective: 1-5 ` .
6) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest. Emergency Medical
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Responders (EMRs) are on scene. In your community, all EMS practitioners are trained
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according to the National EMS Scope of Practice Model. Given this, which type of care do
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youexpect the EMRs to be providing?
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A) Emergency medication administration `. `.
B) Automated external defibrillation `. `.
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electrocardiogramAnswer: B
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Objective: 1-5 ` .
7) An EMT with your service states that she desires to become a paramedic because she wants
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toprovide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, which one of these
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types of care will she be able to provide as a paramedic that she cannot provide as an EMT?
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A) Automated blood pressure monitoring `. `. `.
B) Assistance with emergency childbirth `. `. `.
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D) IV
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8) Which statement made by an EMT requires immediate intervention by a superior or
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theservice supervisor?
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A) "I always wear my seat belt whenever I am in the patient compartment of the
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ambulance,unless I have to remove it to care for a patient."
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B) "I drive as fast as I can to get to the scene of an emergency, especially if a child is sick
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orinjured according to dispatch information."
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C) "When I am driving with lights and sirens, I instruct my partner that he will need to handle
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allradio communications."
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D) "I put exam gloves on for every patient I contact, even if he or she does not have a known
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orsuspected infectious disease."
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