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AAOS EMT Chapter 38 Vehicle Extrication Exam Questions and Answers
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AAOS EMT Chapter 38 VehicleExtrication Exam Questions and
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What is your priority as an EMT? - Answer -Your priority is to provide patient care.
However, your safety and the safety of your team is paramount and must be addressed
before patient care is initiated.
As an EMT are you responsible for rescue? - Answer -No, but you will assist with
extrication.
If you are involved with extrication, what protective gear should you wear? - Answer -
You should don leather gloves over your disposable gloves to proect you from injury
due to ropes, broken glass, hot or cold objects or sharp metal. Additionally always wear
eye protection.
True or False. Federal law requires EMS orkers wear an approved highly reflective
traffic safety vest when work on roadways, around traffic, or at an accident scene. -
Answer -TRUE
Most vehicles today are equipped with shock-absrobing bumpers (front and rear). From
what side should you approach a vehicle during an accident? - Answer -You should
approach from the sides, not the front or back. Bumpers become compressed in a
collision and may spontaneously release.
Should you conduct patient care in front of or behind vehicles? - Answer -No, this is
very dangerous due to spontaneous release from compressed bumpers.
Define extrication. - Answer -Extrication is the removal from entrapment or from a
dangerous position or situation.
Define entrapment. - Answer -Entrapment is a conditiion in whcih a person is caught
wihtin a closed area with no way out or has a body part trapped.
When assessing mechanism of injury (MOI) in a motorvehicle accident, where should
you look when it is safe to do so? - Answer -Check under deployed airbags when it is
safe to do so.
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