I170 A Paramedic Exam 1- 2026/2027 TEST
STUDY GUIDE IS THE LATEST EDITION,
CONTAINING COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS, FULLY
UPDATED AND DESIGNED TO ENSURE A
100% PASS RATE.
Many traditional EMS treatments and practices have been abandoned and refined because of:
A) Research
B) Legislation
C) Experience
D)Patient complaints
A
The National EMS Educational Instructional Guidelines are divided into three domains of
learning. The affective domain refers to which of the following:
A.)Critical thinking and decision making
B.)Physical skills used for patient care
C.)Recall of basic facts and information
D.) Attitudes, values, and emotions
D
In which of the following ways can paramedics play significant part in EMS research?
A.)Volunteering their patients for drug trials
B.)Collecting data accurately and completely
C.)Changing patient-care practices
D.)Experimenting with different ways of managing patients
B
,When you complete your paramedic course and pass the National Registry examination you
will:
A.) Be certified to practice as a paramedic in your state
B.) Be certified to practice as a paramedic in any state
C.) Still need to complete your states certification or licensure process
D.) Be licensed to practice as a paramedic in your state
C
You have responded to a physicians office for a terminal cancer patient in cardiac arrest. The
physician says, "This is a chemical code only. Just give the meds but don't intubate or do CPR."
Which of the following should you do?
A.)Tell the physician you cannot comply with her under any circumstances, then file a report
with the state medical licensing board about her negligence.
B.)Because this is the patients personal physician, you must comply with her orders.
C.)Comply with her orders on the scene to avoid a confrontation, but institute appropriate
once you are in the back of the ambulance.
D.)Tell the physician you are bound to treat the patient according to protocol. If the physician
would like you to do something different, she must take complete responsibility for patient
care.
D
The duties and skills paramedics are allowed and expected to perform while carrying out their
jobs are called the:
A.)Scope of practice
B.)Treatment guidelines
C.)National Standard Curriculum
D.)Standing orders
A
The most common situations involving allocation of scarce resources that paramedics will
usually face are those involving:
A.)Deciding whether to terminate resucitative efforts
B.)Administering expensesive medications
C.)Triage in mass-casualty incidents
D.) Transporting patients to high-quality versus low-quality
C
, Which of the following situations poses an even greater risk of liability to the paramedic than
patient refusal of care?
A.)Transporting minors with or without their consent
B.)Denying transport to an apparently stable patient who insists he needs an ambulance
C.)Having the patient who wants to refuse speak directly with a medical control physician
D.)Transporting a mentally incompetent individual against his wishes
B
SLUDGEE
Salivation
Lacramation
Urination
Defication
Gastric motility
Emesis
Effects of colonergic drugs
Which of the following statements about the physiological changes associated with aging is
TRUE?
A.)There is a 25-30 percent increase in kidney mass due to hypertrophy
B.)Blood vessels walls thicken, reducing blood flow to end organs and causing blood pressure
to rise.
C.)Impaired insulin use and glucose metabolism result in weight loss.
D.)Decreased elasticity of the lung tissue in a smaller lung volume
B
Your patient weighs 22 pounds and is to achieve 0.02 mg/kg of atropine IV push. You have a
multi dose vial of atropine containing 20 ml at a concentration of 0.04 mg/ml. What volumes
in ml of medication is to be injected?
A
Mr. Hinkley is a 46 year old with a history of pancreatitis. He has had abdominal pain and
vomiting for 24 hours. The ED physician requests that you initiate an IV for rehydration. You
will be using a 15 drops/ml infusion set to administer 250 ml of 5 percent dextrose in 0.9
percent NS per hour. What drip rate (at drops/minute) is needed to deliver the fluids at this
rate?
A.)63
B.)42
STUDY GUIDE IS THE LATEST EDITION,
CONTAINING COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS, FULLY
UPDATED AND DESIGNED TO ENSURE A
100% PASS RATE.
Many traditional EMS treatments and practices have been abandoned and refined because of:
A) Research
B) Legislation
C) Experience
D)Patient complaints
A
The National EMS Educational Instructional Guidelines are divided into three domains of
learning. The affective domain refers to which of the following:
A.)Critical thinking and decision making
B.)Physical skills used for patient care
C.)Recall of basic facts and information
D.) Attitudes, values, and emotions
D
In which of the following ways can paramedics play significant part in EMS research?
A.)Volunteering their patients for drug trials
B.)Collecting data accurately and completely
C.)Changing patient-care practices
D.)Experimenting with different ways of managing patients
B
,When you complete your paramedic course and pass the National Registry examination you
will:
A.) Be certified to practice as a paramedic in your state
B.) Be certified to practice as a paramedic in any state
C.) Still need to complete your states certification or licensure process
D.) Be licensed to practice as a paramedic in your state
C
You have responded to a physicians office for a terminal cancer patient in cardiac arrest. The
physician says, "This is a chemical code only. Just give the meds but don't intubate or do CPR."
Which of the following should you do?
A.)Tell the physician you cannot comply with her under any circumstances, then file a report
with the state medical licensing board about her negligence.
B.)Because this is the patients personal physician, you must comply with her orders.
C.)Comply with her orders on the scene to avoid a confrontation, but institute appropriate
once you are in the back of the ambulance.
D.)Tell the physician you are bound to treat the patient according to protocol. If the physician
would like you to do something different, she must take complete responsibility for patient
care.
D
The duties and skills paramedics are allowed and expected to perform while carrying out their
jobs are called the:
A.)Scope of practice
B.)Treatment guidelines
C.)National Standard Curriculum
D.)Standing orders
A
The most common situations involving allocation of scarce resources that paramedics will
usually face are those involving:
A.)Deciding whether to terminate resucitative efforts
B.)Administering expensesive medications
C.)Triage in mass-casualty incidents
D.) Transporting patients to high-quality versus low-quality
C
, Which of the following situations poses an even greater risk of liability to the paramedic than
patient refusal of care?
A.)Transporting minors with or without their consent
B.)Denying transport to an apparently stable patient who insists he needs an ambulance
C.)Having the patient who wants to refuse speak directly with a medical control physician
D.)Transporting a mentally incompetent individual against his wishes
B
SLUDGEE
Salivation
Lacramation
Urination
Defication
Gastric motility
Emesis
Effects of colonergic drugs
Which of the following statements about the physiological changes associated with aging is
TRUE?
A.)There is a 25-30 percent increase in kidney mass due to hypertrophy
B.)Blood vessels walls thicken, reducing blood flow to end organs and causing blood pressure
to rise.
C.)Impaired insulin use and glucose metabolism result in weight loss.
D.)Decreased elasticity of the lung tissue in a smaller lung volume
B
Your patient weighs 22 pounds and is to achieve 0.02 mg/kg of atropine IV push. You have a
multi dose vial of atropine containing 20 ml at a concentration of 0.04 mg/ml. What volumes
in ml of medication is to be injected?
A
Mr. Hinkley is a 46 year old with a history of pancreatitis. He has had abdominal pain and
vomiting for 24 hours. The ED physician requests that you initiate an IV for rehydration. You
will be using a 15 drops/ml infusion set to administer 250 ml of 5 percent dextrose in 0.9
percent NS per hour. What drip rate (at drops/minute) is needed to deliver the fluids at this
rate?
A.)63
B.)42
