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EMT: Exam #1 ReviewYou are your EMT partner are assigned to spend a day at the senior center
where you are to inspect the rooms and common areas for fall hazards. Your
partner is upset that he is not in the ambulance where the "action is". He
complains that "looking for loose rugs" is a waste of his time. What would be the
best response to his complaints? - CORRECT ANSWER-Injury prevention in the
community is an important component of EMS.
Which one of the following best illustrates the primary purpose of the modern-day
EMS system? - CORRECT ANSWER-Decrease the incidence of death and/or
disability related to injury an illness
Most authorities agree that the modern-day EMS system evolved after the
release of what document? - CORRECT ANSWER-The White Paper "Accidental
Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society"
As defined by The National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of EMS
practitioners include: - CORRECT ANSWER-Paramedics
You have been dispatched for a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest. Emergency
Medical Responders (EMR) are on scene. In your community all EMS
practitioners are trained according to the National EMS Scope of Practice Model.
Which one of the following do you expect the EMR to be providing? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Automated external defibrillation
Which one of the following statements made by an EMT requires immediate
intervention by a superior or the service supervisor? - CORRECT ANSWER-"I
drive as fast as I can to get to the scene of an emergency, especially if a child is
sick or injured."
Which one of the following statements shows that the EMT has a good
understanding of her role and responsibility related to being an EMT? -
CORRECT ANSWER-"My safety comes first and then the patient's safety."
An ambulance with two EMTs arrive in front of a house for an unknown medical
call in a good section of town. On scene bystanders report that the patient is a
,female who was beaten by her husband in the driveway and then taken into the
house. They tell the EMTs that she looked unconscious and was bleeding from
the head. Which one of the following should the EMTs do next? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Move the ambulance from the scene and wait until the police arrive.
You have been asked to sit on your service's quality improvement committee. As
a knowledgeable EMT, you recognize that you will be involved in projects that
serve to: - CORRECT ANSWER-Examine ways in which the delivery of
emergency care can be improved.
Which one of the following is an appropriate outcome of a project undertaken by
the quality improvement committee? - CORRECT ANSWER-Monthly continuing
education programs in which seldom-used skills are practiced.
To a medical director of an ambulance service, which one of the following
requirements must the individual satisfy? - CORRECT ANSWER-Licensed
physician
As an EMT, which one of the following must you have to provide routine and
emergency medical care? - CORRECT ANSWER-Service medical director
Before contacting medical direction for authorization to assist a shortness of
breath patient with his or her metered-dose inhaler, protocols state that the EMT
must first attempt to provide relief by administering oxygen. You recognize that
the administration of oxygen is best described as a(n): - CORRECT
ANSWER-Standing order.
If a patient with chest pain takes a daily aspirin, your service's medical director
wants the EMT to contact an emergency department physician first before
administering additional aspirin. The act of contacting the emergency department
physician for permission to administer additional aspirin is an example of: -
CORRECT ANSWER-On-line medical direction
A 14-year-old boy has fallen through a plate glass window and is bleeding
heavily from a laceration to his arm. His panicked mother has called 911 for help.
Since the 911 operators are also Emergency Medical Dispatchers, which one of
, the following will they be able to provide? - CORRECT ANSWER-Instructions on
how to control bleeding
Which one of the following would be an EMS public health initiative? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Educating the public on the benefit of wearing seatbelts
Your service's medical director would like to explore the idea of EMTs using
special transport ventilators when caring for patients who require assistance in
their breathing. Using the evidence-based medicine approach, which one of the
following should you do first? - CORRECT ANSWER-Search the medical
literature for any information related to this topic
Which one of the following statements about EMS in the United States is true? -
CORRECT ANSWER-Each state has governmental control of its own EMS
system, independent of the federal government.
A 40-year-old man has been seriously injured in a car crash. He is unresponsive
and has what you believe to be a collapsed lung on his left side. He also has
obvious deformity to the left leg and unstable vital signs. A passenger in the car
informs you that the patient is a diabetic and has heart problems. Given this
information, which one of the following is the best destination for this patient? -
CORRECT ANSWER-Trauma Center
You are your new EMT partner arrive first on the scene of a single car rollover on
the shoulder of a busy highway. You pull off in a safe location and just as you
stop the ambulance, your partner throws the passenger door open, steps out of
the truck, and begins jogging through the scattered debris toward the overturned
car. You shout for him to stop and he looks back at you, but then continues to the
vehicle and begins assessing the driver. Later, as you are restocking in the
ambulance bay of the local trauma center your partner tells you that he thinks
you acted unprofessionally by shouting at him. What is the best way to respond?
- CORRECT ANSWER-Shouting was an attempt to protect the EMT from a
potentially unsafe scene
In 1996, the National Highway Safety Act charged which of the following
agencies with the development of emergency medical service standards? -
CORRECT ANSWER-U.S. Department of Transportation
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