CIEMT EMT FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Role of an EMT - ✔✔Provide a COORDINATED CONTINUUM OF CARE to
maximize survival and limit patient suffering
1. Limit and move patient safely
2. Transport and transfer of care
3. Record and collect data
4. Patient Advocacy
✔✔Mental/Physical Well-Being is achieved through.. - ✔✔1. Proper training
2. Experience
3. Strategies to cope with stress
✔✔80% of your job is.... - ✔✔COMMUNICATION
Also....
1. Orient the patient
2. Be honest
3. Avoid sad/grim comments
4. Acknowledge seriousness of condition
5. Locate & notify family members
✔✔Injured/Critically Ill Children - ✔✔1. Basic treatment remains the same
2. Have relative accompany child to relive child's anxiety
Manage your stress levels!!!!!
✔✔Death of a Child - ✔✔EMT is responsible to help family cope
✔✔Dealing with Family Members after Death - ✔✔1. Be calm
2. Use gentle tone
3. Do NOT create false hope
They may express rage, anger, despair
✔✔Kubler-Ross (5 Predictable Stages of the Grieving Process) - ✔✔1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
May occur SIMULTANEOUSLY or one after another (it is a long process and may take
years)
, ✔✔Stressful Situations for an EMT - ✔✔1. Mass-casualty incident (MCI)
2. Infant/child trauma
3. Amputations
4. Child/Elder Abuse
5. Death/injury of coworker
✔✔Fight-or-Flight Mechanism - ✔✔SYMPATHETIC response and it is part of the
NEURO-ENDOCRINE
- rise in respiration
- rise in pulse
- increase B.P.
- dilated pupils
- tense muscle
- cool, pale, and diaphoretic
- increase blood glucose levels
- persipiration
- decrease circulation to GI tract
✔✔How does your blood glucose levels rise? Where does your body want to focus all
this heat and energy? - ✔✔1. Pancreas
2. Glucagon
3. Liver
4. RELEASE GLYCOGEN STORES
5. Increase blood glucose
Shunt blood to the CORE
✔✔General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - ✔✔1. Alarm (sympathetic response)
2. Resistance
3. Recovery or Exhaustion (if stress is prolonged)
✔✔Physical Symptoms of Stress - ✔✔1. Fatigue
2. Change in appetite
3. Headaches
4. Insomnia/Hypersomnia
5. Irritability
✔✔Psychological Reactions of Stress - ✔✔1. Fear
2. Depression
3. Anger
4. Frustration
✔✔Signs of PTSD - ✔✔1. Depression
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Role of an EMT - ✔✔Provide a COORDINATED CONTINUUM OF CARE to
maximize survival and limit patient suffering
1. Limit and move patient safely
2. Transport and transfer of care
3. Record and collect data
4. Patient Advocacy
✔✔Mental/Physical Well-Being is achieved through.. - ✔✔1. Proper training
2. Experience
3. Strategies to cope with stress
✔✔80% of your job is.... - ✔✔COMMUNICATION
Also....
1. Orient the patient
2. Be honest
3. Avoid sad/grim comments
4. Acknowledge seriousness of condition
5. Locate & notify family members
✔✔Injured/Critically Ill Children - ✔✔1. Basic treatment remains the same
2. Have relative accompany child to relive child's anxiety
Manage your stress levels!!!!!
✔✔Death of a Child - ✔✔EMT is responsible to help family cope
✔✔Dealing with Family Members after Death - ✔✔1. Be calm
2. Use gentle tone
3. Do NOT create false hope
They may express rage, anger, despair
✔✔Kubler-Ross (5 Predictable Stages of the Grieving Process) - ✔✔1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
May occur SIMULTANEOUSLY or one after another (it is a long process and may take
years)
, ✔✔Stressful Situations for an EMT - ✔✔1. Mass-casualty incident (MCI)
2. Infant/child trauma
3. Amputations
4. Child/Elder Abuse
5. Death/injury of coworker
✔✔Fight-or-Flight Mechanism - ✔✔SYMPATHETIC response and it is part of the
NEURO-ENDOCRINE
- rise in respiration
- rise in pulse
- increase B.P.
- dilated pupils
- tense muscle
- cool, pale, and diaphoretic
- increase blood glucose levels
- persipiration
- decrease circulation to GI tract
✔✔How does your blood glucose levels rise? Where does your body want to focus all
this heat and energy? - ✔✔1. Pancreas
2. Glucagon
3. Liver
4. RELEASE GLYCOGEN STORES
5. Increase blood glucose
Shunt blood to the CORE
✔✔General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - ✔✔1. Alarm (sympathetic response)
2. Resistance
3. Recovery or Exhaustion (if stress is prolonged)
✔✔Physical Symptoms of Stress - ✔✔1. Fatigue
2. Change in appetite
3. Headaches
4. Insomnia/Hypersomnia
5. Irritability
✔✔Psychological Reactions of Stress - ✔✔1. Fear
2. Depression
3. Anger
4. Frustration
✔✔Signs of PTSD - ✔✔1. Depression
