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NYS EMT CERTIFYING EXAM 2024/2025
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NYS EMT CERTIFYING EXAM 2024/2025Providing care within the scope of practice would be considered
behavior in accordance with:
1. The sovereign immunity doctrine
2. Approved protocols
3. Professional Standards
4. Institutional Standards - Precise Answer ✔✔Professional Standards
As you lift a patient into the rear of the ambulance, a reporter recognizes
the patient as a State Senator. Immediately the press demands to be told
what has happened to the senator. You Should:
1. Advise the press that you are unable to comment
2. Deny the patient is the Senator
3. Tell the press your diagnosis
4. Advise the press to contact the Senator's family - Precise Answer
✔✔Advise the press that you are unable to comment
If the patient care protocols have been revised, it is the EMS providers
responsibility to
,1. Attend in-service training with the agency medical director to become
familiar with the new protocols
2. Continue to use the old protocols because they are already familiar
3. Begin to use the new protocols as soon as the agency receives them
4. Operate only when in direct communication with the physician -
Precise Answer ✔✔Attend in-service training with the agency medical
director to become familiar with new protocols
During the Initial Assessment, you are assessing a conscious trauma
patient complaining loudly of pain in the leg. You should
1. Begin to obtain the history
2. Assess the leg immediately
3. Discontinue the initial Assessment, start the Detailed Physical Exam
4. Continue with your initial assessment - Precise Answer ✔✔Continue
with your initial assessment
The overall purpose of the initial Assessment is to
1. Identify and correct life-threatening problems and set priorities
2. Ensure that the airway is open and locate breathing problems
3. Identify and treat major extremity injuries
4. Identify minor problems and provide treatment - Precise Answer
✔✔Identify and correct life-threatening problems and set priorities
,Systolic blood pressure indicates the pressure when the
1. Atria are contracting
2. Atria are relaxing
3. Ventricles are contracting
4. Ventricles are relaxing - Precise Answer ✔✔Ventricles are
contracting
In what order is the Detailed Physical Exam usually conducted on an
adult patient?
1. Head, Neck, extremities, chest, pelvis, abdomen
2. Head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities
3. Head, neck, abdomen, chest, pelvis, extremities
4. Head, chest, abdomen, neck, pelvis, and extremities - Precise Answer
✔✔Head, Neck, Chest, Abdomen, Pelvis, And Extremities
A driver has crashed into a tree. In what order should you check for the
signs of life-threatening problems in this accident victim?
1. Pulse, respirations, Hemorrhage
2. Respirations, Hemorrhage, and pulse
3. Hemorrhage, Pulse, and Respirations
4. Respirations, Pulse, And hemorrhage - Precise Answer
✔✔Respirations, Pulse, And hemorrhage
, In assessing a pediatric trauma patient's capillary refill time, an abnormal
finding would be a refill time of
1. Greater than 5 seconds
2. Less than 2 seconds
3. Greater than 2 seconds
4. Greater than 4 seconds - Precise Answer ✔✔Greater than 2 seconds
If a life-threatening problem is discovered during the initial assessment,
you should
1. Finish the initial Assessment and then go back to correct the problem
2. Complete both the initial Assessment and the secondary survey
3. Transport the patient to the hospital immediately
4. Correct the problem before continuing with the initial Assessment -
Precise Answer ✔✔Correct the problem before continuing with the
initial Assessment
All of the following are symptoms EXCEPT
1. Headache
2. Weak Pulse
3. Chest Pain
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