Test Bank - Prehospital
Emergency Care,
11th Edition (Mistovich,
2018),
Chapter 1-46
,Prehospital Emergency Care, 11e (Mistovich et al.)
Chapter 1 Emergency Care Systems, Research, and Public Health
1) What is a primary purpose of the modern-day EMS system?
A) Provide a means of transport to and from the hospital
B) Ensure that all members of society have equal access to hospitals
C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and
illness
D) Provide emergency health care services to
medically underserved areas Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 7
Objective: 1-2
2) Most authorities agree that the modern-day EMS system evolved
after the release of which document?
A) The Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The
Neglected Disease of Modern Society" in 1966
C) The American Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiac
Resuscitation
D) Emergency Medical Services: Agenda for the
Future, in 1996 Answer: B
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 3
Objective: 1-2
3) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that
he would like to work for your emergency ambulance service on a
full-time basis. Knowing the National EMS Scope of Practice Model,
you inform him of which element?
A) He will be able to take care of only patients with non-life-
threatening complaints
B) He will first need approval from your ambulance service's medical
director
C) He will be able to work only with an Advanced EMT or paramedic
D) He will first have to become an Emergency
Medical Technician Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Objective: 1-1
4) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model,
the four levels of EMS practitioners include:
,A) Ambulance drivers
B) EMS medical director
C) Paramedics
D) Emergency medical
dispatchers Answer: C
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Objective: 1-3
, 5) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and
states that he is interested in becoming an EMT. Specifically, he
asks what he will be able to do as an EMT that he cannot presently
do as an EMR. You respond by saying he will be able to:
A) Administer some medications
B) Assist in emergency childbirth
C) Use an automated external defibrillator
D) Obtain vital
signs Answer:
A
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Objective: 1-5
6) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-old female in cardiac
arrest. Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs) are on scene. In your
community, all EMS practitioners are trained according to the
National EMS Scope of Practice Model. Given this, which type of care
do you expect the EMRs to be providing?
A) Emergency medication administration
B) Automated external defibrillation
C) Intravenous therapy
D) Reading an
electrocardiogram
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6
Objective: 1-5
7) An EMT with your service states that she desires to become a
paramedic because she wants to provide advanced care. Under the
National EMS Scope of Practice Model, which one of these types of
care will she be able to provide as a paramedic that she cannot
provide as an EMT?
A) Automated blood pressure monitoring
B) Assistance with emergency childbirth
C) Interfacility transports
D) IV
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 9
Objective: 1-7
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