EMT BLOCK 1 LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔In continuity of care, where does transfer happen? - ✔✔When verbal report is read
to nurse (with a signature)
or can turn over care to someone with equal or higher status
✔✔Mobile Integrated Health Care - ✔✔- keep people out of ED (less crowded ERs)
- lab samples, monitoring screenings
- administer COVID vaccs
- paramedicine
✔✔CQI? - ✔✔Continuous Quality Improvement
- minimize errors
- re-educating based off yearly reports
✔✔Difference between Primary Prevention and Secondary Prevention - ✔✔Primary -
prevent even in first place (not being on phone, informative programs, PSAs)
Secondary - prevent in future (seat belt, new railing protections)
✔✔Scene Safety, BSI, PPE - ✔✔Scene Safety: check for clearance
Body Substance Isolation
Personal Protective Equipment
✔✔Acronym for scene size up - ✔✔PENMAN
Personal, partner, people's safety
Environmental Hazards
Number of patients
MOI (mechanism of injury) or NOI (nature of illness)
Additional resources
Need for extrication or cervical spine precautions
✔✔Routes of Transmission - ✔✔1. direct contact (cough, spit, sex, etc.)
2. indirect contact (needle stick) -- inanimate objects acts as the in-between called
***fomite***
3. Airbourne transmission
4. Foodbourne (often bacteria)
5. Vector-bourne transmission (involves spread of infection by animals/insects)
✔✔Heppa mask - ✔✔filters air
, ✔✔What does OSHA do? - ✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- regulates safety and reduces exposure
✔✔Types of Immunity - ✔✔1. lifelong: illness will not recur
2. partial immunity: will never be infected with a new strain
3. none: STI's, no immunity build up
4. other/unknown: flu, COVID-19
✔✔General Postexposure Management - ✔✔1. turn over patient care to equal or higher
licensure
2. clean exposed area with soap and water
3. activate department's infection control plan
4. complete exposure report
5. seek treatment
✔✔HIPAA - ✔✔Heath
Insurance
Portability and
Accountability
Act
✔✔General Adaptation Syndrome - ✔✔1. alarm response to stress
2. reaction and resisteance
3. recovery (exhaustion)
✔✔Hormones that counteract stress - ✔✔released by adrenal glands on kidneys when
under stress
- epinephrine
- cortisol
- norepinephrine
✔✔two parts of PNS - ✔✔Somatic (voluntary) and autonomic (involuntary)
✔✔two parts of autonomic PNS - ✔✔parasympathetic (rest and digest) and sympathetic
(fight or flight)
✔✔Stress on body affecting sympathetic NS - ✔✔HR goes up with strength of cardiac
contractions
RR goes up to get more O2
pupils dilate to see better
blood glucose levels increase to get more sugar for the brain through the bloodstream
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔In continuity of care, where does transfer happen? - ✔✔When verbal report is read
to nurse (with a signature)
or can turn over care to someone with equal or higher status
✔✔Mobile Integrated Health Care - ✔✔- keep people out of ED (less crowded ERs)
- lab samples, monitoring screenings
- administer COVID vaccs
- paramedicine
✔✔CQI? - ✔✔Continuous Quality Improvement
- minimize errors
- re-educating based off yearly reports
✔✔Difference between Primary Prevention and Secondary Prevention - ✔✔Primary -
prevent even in first place (not being on phone, informative programs, PSAs)
Secondary - prevent in future (seat belt, new railing protections)
✔✔Scene Safety, BSI, PPE - ✔✔Scene Safety: check for clearance
Body Substance Isolation
Personal Protective Equipment
✔✔Acronym for scene size up - ✔✔PENMAN
Personal, partner, people's safety
Environmental Hazards
Number of patients
MOI (mechanism of injury) or NOI (nature of illness)
Additional resources
Need for extrication or cervical spine precautions
✔✔Routes of Transmission - ✔✔1. direct contact (cough, spit, sex, etc.)
2. indirect contact (needle stick) -- inanimate objects acts as the in-between called
***fomite***
3. Airbourne transmission
4. Foodbourne (often bacteria)
5. Vector-bourne transmission (involves spread of infection by animals/insects)
✔✔Heppa mask - ✔✔filters air
, ✔✔What does OSHA do? - ✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- regulates safety and reduces exposure
✔✔Types of Immunity - ✔✔1. lifelong: illness will not recur
2. partial immunity: will never be infected with a new strain
3. none: STI's, no immunity build up
4. other/unknown: flu, COVID-19
✔✔General Postexposure Management - ✔✔1. turn over patient care to equal or higher
licensure
2. clean exposed area with soap and water
3. activate department's infection control plan
4. complete exposure report
5. seek treatment
✔✔HIPAA - ✔✔Heath
Insurance
Portability and
Accountability
Act
✔✔General Adaptation Syndrome - ✔✔1. alarm response to stress
2. reaction and resisteance
3. recovery (exhaustion)
✔✔Hormones that counteract stress - ✔✔released by adrenal glands on kidneys when
under stress
- epinephrine
- cortisol
- norepinephrine
✔✔two parts of PNS - ✔✔Somatic (voluntary) and autonomic (involuntary)
✔✔two parts of autonomic PNS - ✔✔parasympathetic (rest and digest) and sympathetic
(fight or flight)
✔✔Stress on body affecting sympathetic NS - ✔✔HR goes up with strength of cardiac
contractions
RR goes up to get more O2
pupils dilate to see better
blood glucose levels increase to get more sugar for the brain through the bloodstream
