EMT chapter 3 Lifting and Moving Patients (Practice questions with correct answers)
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EMT b
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EMT B
To ensure your own safety when lifting an adult patient, it is important to:
A. Always wear a back brace
B. Keep the weight as far away from your body as possible
C. Use your legs, not your back to lift
D. Avoid lifting a patient who weighs more than you do correct answers C
When lifting a p...
EMT chapter 3 Lifting and Moving Patients (Practice questions with correct answ ers)
To ensure your own safety when lifting an adult patient, it is important to:
A. Always wear a back brace
B. Keep the weight as far away from your body as possible
C. Use your legs, not your back to lift
D. Avoid lifting a patient who weighs more than you do correct answers C
When lifting a patient, you should do all of the following except:
A. Communicate clearly with your partner B. Twist while you lift the patient
C. Know your physical ability and limitations
D. Communicate frequently with your partner correct answers B
When lifting a cot or stretcher:
A. Use an even number of people so that balance is maintained
B. Keep both of your feet together and flat on the ground
C. Use a third person positioned on the heaviest side
D. If you must use one hand only, compensate by using your back correct answers A
When you place all fingers and the palm in contact with the object being lifted, you are using a:
A. Power grip
B. Power lift
C. Lock grip
D. Grip lift correct answers A
When you must push an object:
A. Keep the line of pull through the center of your body by bending your knees
B. Push from an overhead position, keeping your knees locked
C. Keep the weight you are pushing at least 20 inches away from your body
D. Keep the elbows straight with arms close to your sides correct answers A
The situation in which an emergency move would be used include all of the following except:
A. Fire or immediate danger of fire
B. Explosives or other hazardous chemicals
C. Inability to protect the patient from other hazards at the scene
D. Dispatcher is holding another, more serious, call correct answers D
You are assigned to move as many patients as possible from the hall of a nursing home because there is a fire in another wing of the building. The next patient you come to is on the floor, and you have decided to use an emergency move. This patient can be moved by:
A. Rolling her like a log
B. Using a spine board and strapping her down
C. Pulling on her clothing in the neck and shoulder area
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