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EMT-B Basic Final Exam Review Latest Updated Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses? - ANSWER-DOT Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification. - ANSWER-National Registery Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field. - ANSWER-Medical Co...

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Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses? - ✔✔✔ANSWER-DOT


Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification. - ✔✔✔ANSWER-
National Registery


Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field. -
✔✔✔ANSWER-Medical Control


Recognition, patient assesment, continued assesment and stabilization in hospital,
definitive care. - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Continuum of Care

,Types of stress include: - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Cumulative, post-traumatic stress
reaction, eustruss, acute stress, and chronic stress


S/S of stress include: - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Increased respiratory rate, heart rate, and
B/P, vasodilation, dialted pupils, tensed muscles, increased glucose levels,
perspiration, deacreased blood flow to gastrointestinal tract, irritability, inability to
concentrate, difficult or increased sleeping, anxiety, guilt, loss of appetite,
decreased sexual activity, loss of interest in work, alcholism, drug use.


Management of stress includes: - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Eliminate stressors, change
partners, get rid of negative personalities, change work hours, reduce overtime,
change your attitude, don't obsess over what you can't change, excercise, diet.


Fight or Flight response: - ✔✔✔ANSWER-During an acute stress response, the
autonomic nervous system is activated and the body increases level of cotricol,
adrenilen, and other hormones that produce an increased heart rate, quick
breathing, and higher BP. Blood is shunted from extremities to the big muscles to
"fight or flight".


Routes of transmission include: - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Direct - touch or droplets
Indirect - spread by inanimate objects
Mechanical (vector born) - by insects
Biological - Transmissions by which the germs live or grow
Airborne - sneezes, coughs
Dust - may carry pores, may remain for long periods.

, Control and prevention of contamination include? - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Hand
washing, gloves, eye protection, gowns, masks, mask, respirators, barrier devices,
and immunizations.


Duty to Act is? - ✔✔✔ANSWER-An obligation to provide care.


Duties include: - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Duty to:
-Respond
-Obey laws and regulations
-Operate an emergerncy vehicle reasonably and prudently
-Provide care and transportation to expected standard
-Provide care and transport consistent with the scope of practice and local
medicine protocol
-Continue and transport through to its appropriate conclusion


The scope of practice is? - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Descriptionof what assessment and
treatment skills and EMT may legally perform.


Implied consent is? - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Consent in which a patient is unable to give
consent and is provided treatment under the implication they would want treament.


Informed consent is? - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Permission for treatment given by a
patient after the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been
explained.


Ethics - ✔✔✔ANSWER-The discipline dealing with what is good and bad.

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