AAOS EMT EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Paging - ✔✔The use of a radio signal and a voice or digital message that is
transmitted to pagers ("beepers") or desktop monitor radios.
✔✔patient care report (PCR) - ✔✔The legal document used to record all patient care
activities. This report has direct patient care functions but also administrative and quality
control functions. PCRs are also known as prehospital care reports.
✔✔Proxemics - ✔✔The study of space between people and its effects on
communication.
✔✔Rapport - ✔✔A trusting relationship that you build with your patient.
✔✔Repeater - ✔✔A special base station radio that receives messages and signals on
one frequency and then automatically retransmits them on a second frequency.
✔✔Scanner - ✔✔A radio receiver that searches or "scans" across several frequencies
until the message is completed; the process is then repeated.
✔✔Simplex - ✔✔Single-frequency radio; transmissions can occur in either direction but
not simultaneously in both; when one party transmits, the other can only receive, and
the party that is transmitting is unable to receive.
✔✔standing orders - ✔✔Written documents, signed by the EMS system's medical
director, that outline specific directions, permissions, and sometimes prohibitions
regarding patient care; also called protocols.
✔✔Telemetry - ✔✔A process in which electronic signals are converted into coded,
audible signals; these signals can then be transmitted by radio or telephone to a
receiver with a decoder at the hospital.
✔✔therapeutic communication - ✔✔Verbal and nonverbal communication techniques
that encourage patients to express their feelings and to achieve a positive relationship.
✔✔Trunking - ✔✔Telecommunication systems that allow a computer to maximize
utilization of a group of frequencies.
✔✔UHF (ultra-high frequency) - ✔✔Radio frequencies between 300 and 3,000 MHz.
✔✔VHF (very high frequency) - ✔✔Radio frequencies between 30 and 300 MHz; the
VHF spectrum is further divided into "high" and "low" bands.
, ✔✔Abandonment - ✔✔termination of care by EMT without patient consent or continuing
care
✔✔Advance Directive - ✔✔specifies treatment should the patient become unconscious
✔✔Assault - ✔✔Unlawfully placing person in fear of immediate bodily harm
✔✔Battery - ✔✔Unlawfully touching a person
✔✔Consent - ✔✔Permission to render care
✔✔Defamation - ✔✔Communication of false information that damages reputation of a
person
✔✔Dependent lividity - ✔✔blood settling
✔✔DNR orders - ✔✔advance directive that gives permission not to resuscitate
✔✔Durable power of attorney for health care - ✔✔Able to make health care decisions
✔✔Duty to act - ✔✔responsibility to provide patient care
✔✔Emancipated minor - ✔✔Married, in armed services, or parents
✔✔Emergency doctrine - ✔✔principle of implied consent
✔✔Expressed consent - ✔✔Patient acknowledges he or she wants you to provide care
or transport
✔✔False imprisionment - ✔✔unauthorized confinement of a person
✔✔Good Samaritan Law - ✔✔legal protection to people who give reasonable
assistance to those in need
✔✔Gross negligence - ✔✔Lack of diligence or care.
✔✔Implied consent - ✔✔Applies to unconscious or incapable patients
✔✔Informed consent - ✔✔Treatment, risks and benefits have been explained.
✔✔Kidnapping - ✔✔Seizing, confining, abducting, or carrying away by force
✔✔Libel - ✔✔a published false statement
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Paging - ✔✔The use of a radio signal and a voice or digital message that is
transmitted to pagers ("beepers") or desktop monitor radios.
✔✔patient care report (PCR) - ✔✔The legal document used to record all patient care
activities. This report has direct patient care functions but also administrative and quality
control functions. PCRs are also known as prehospital care reports.
✔✔Proxemics - ✔✔The study of space between people and its effects on
communication.
✔✔Rapport - ✔✔A trusting relationship that you build with your patient.
✔✔Repeater - ✔✔A special base station radio that receives messages and signals on
one frequency and then automatically retransmits them on a second frequency.
✔✔Scanner - ✔✔A radio receiver that searches or "scans" across several frequencies
until the message is completed; the process is then repeated.
✔✔Simplex - ✔✔Single-frequency radio; transmissions can occur in either direction but
not simultaneously in both; when one party transmits, the other can only receive, and
the party that is transmitting is unable to receive.
✔✔standing orders - ✔✔Written documents, signed by the EMS system's medical
director, that outline specific directions, permissions, and sometimes prohibitions
regarding patient care; also called protocols.
✔✔Telemetry - ✔✔A process in which electronic signals are converted into coded,
audible signals; these signals can then be transmitted by radio or telephone to a
receiver with a decoder at the hospital.
✔✔therapeutic communication - ✔✔Verbal and nonverbal communication techniques
that encourage patients to express their feelings and to achieve a positive relationship.
✔✔Trunking - ✔✔Telecommunication systems that allow a computer to maximize
utilization of a group of frequencies.
✔✔UHF (ultra-high frequency) - ✔✔Radio frequencies between 300 and 3,000 MHz.
✔✔VHF (very high frequency) - ✔✔Radio frequencies between 30 and 300 MHz; the
VHF spectrum is further divided into "high" and "low" bands.
, ✔✔Abandonment - ✔✔termination of care by EMT without patient consent or continuing
care
✔✔Advance Directive - ✔✔specifies treatment should the patient become unconscious
✔✔Assault - ✔✔Unlawfully placing person in fear of immediate bodily harm
✔✔Battery - ✔✔Unlawfully touching a person
✔✔Consent - ✔✔Permission to render care
✔✔Defamation - ✔✔Communication of false information that damages reputation of a
person
✔✔Dependent lividity - ✔✔blood settling
✔✔DNR orders - ✔✔advance directive that gives permission not to resuscitate
✔✔Durable power of attorney for health care - ✔✔Able to make health care decisions
✔✔Duty to act - ✔✔responsibility to provide patient care
✔✔Emancipated minor - ✔✔Married, in armed services, or parents
✔✔Emergency doctrine - ✔✔principle of implied consent
✔✔Expressed consent - ✔✔Patient acknowledges he or she wants you to provide care
or transport
✔✔False imprisionment - ✔✔unauthorized confinement of a person
✔✔Good Samaritan Law - ✔✔legal protection to people who give reasonable
assistance to those in need
✔✔Gross negligence - ✔✔Lack of diligence or care.
✔✔Implied consent - ✔✔Applies to unconscious or incapable patients
✔✔Informed consent - ✔✔Treatment, risks and benefits have been explained.
✔✔Kidnapping - ✔✔Seizing, confining, abducting, or carrying away by force
✔✔Libel - ✔✔a published false statement
