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Critical Care Transport Exam Practice Questions and Answers Your physical assessment reveals that the posterior pharynx is partially exposed. What classification Mallampati would you identify this patient as? - ANSWER-II Which of the following patient populations would likely require high inspi...

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Critical Care Transport Exam Practice

Questions and Answers


Your physical assessment reveals that the posterior pharynx is partially exposed. What classification

Mallampati would you identify this patient as? - ANSWER✔✔-II


Which of the following patient populations would likely require high inspiratory pressures to adequately

achieve gas exchange? - ANSWER✔✔-Asthma patietns


What additional healthcare provider may become part of the transport team during the transport of a

patient receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)? - ANSWER✔✔-Perfusionist


A person's ability to withstand negative pressure or "bounce back" from difficulties is known as: -

ANSWER✔✔-Resilience


CMS defines __________ as the use of specialized equipment and specialized training beyond the

paramedic scope of practice to manage critically ill patients from facility to facility. - ANSWER✔✔-

Specialty Care Transport


What agency dictates CCTPs' scope of practice? - ANSWER✔✔-The state agency responsible for licensure


When was the United States' first city ambulance service established? - ANSWER✔✔-1869

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Which of the following will indicate to dispatch that the interfacility transport requires critical care

transport? - ANSWER✔✔-Intra-aoritic balloon pump (IABP)


A STEMI patient with three vasoactive medications infusing in a community hospital that is 10 miles

away, 45 minutes with current traffic, would be a candidate for which mode of transportation? -

ANSWER✔✔-Rotor-wing transport


__________ is the reaction of the mind and body to demand for change. - ANSWER✔✔-Stress


How do critical care transport services ensure that their providers maintain proficiency? - ANSWER✔✔-

Mandatory competency training


A 3-month old patient in Louisville, Kentucky, has a unique heart condition that requires an intervention

that is currently only performed at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. What is the best mode of

transportation for this patient? - ANSWER✔✔-Fixed-wing transport


Which type of transport is the most expensive to operate? - ANSWER✔✔-Specialty Care Transport


Interfacility transport is the transport of a patient between: - ANSWER✔✔-Two healthcare facilities


Critical care is the management of patients with life-threatening conditions that requires: - ANSWER✔✔-

Continuous monitoring and drugs of equipment required to sustain life


What is the first point of contact for the rotor-wing critical care team? - ANSWER✔✔-The dispatcher




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How do you manage a patient when a sending physician refuses to allow you to treat a patient

appropriately according to your protocols? - ANSWER✔✔-Contact the receiving facilities physician


What is necessary for a CCTP to act outside of his or her protocols? - ANSWER✔✔-Medical command

physician orders


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? - ANSWER✔✔-Perform basic resuscitation,

then seek clarification


In preparation for transport, the sending facility physician must have identified and communicated with

a __________ in order to initiate the patient transfer. - ANSWER✔✔-Receiving facility physician


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? - ANSWER✔✔-The physician assistant


When is it acceptable to transfer an unstable patient from a facility? - ANSWER✔✔-The sending facility

cannot perform the needed interventions


What allows individuals to accepts or refuse treatment, to receive appropriate care, and to receive care

without interruption? - ANSWER✔✔-Patient rights




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What type of consent is obtained after you discuss the treatment and transport plan with the patient

and patient's family? - ANSWER✔✔-Informed consent


What information must be sent with a patient during all interfacility patient transfers? - ANSWER✔✔-

Current diagnosis and interventions


While a CCTP contacts their medical director for additional medication doses, he or she is operating

under: - ANSWER✔✔-Online medical control


When does an adult patient of sound mind have the right to refuse treatment by a CCTP? - ANSWER✔✔-

At any point the CCTP is present


__________ is the intentional and unjustifiable detention of a person without his or her consent or other

legal authority. - ANSWER✔✔-False imprisonment


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. - ANSWER✔✔-Informed


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? - ANSWER✔✔-

Discuss the concerns with the family and sending physician




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