EMT PROTOCOL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED
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Question: What specific significant mechanisms of injury automatically trigger a
minimum classification of a Status 3 patient?
Answer: ✔✔ A Status 3 designation is required if any of the following trauma
mechanisms occur:
Critical Falls: Greater than 20 feet for an adult (calculating one story as 10
feet), or greater than 10 feet (or two to three times the child's height) for a
pediatric patient.
High-Risk Motor Vehicle Collisions:
o Cabin intrusion exceeding 12 inches at the occupant's seating site, or
exceeding 18 inches at any other location within the vehicle
(including the roof).
o Partial or complete ejection from the automobile.
o A passenger fatality occurring within the exact same occupant
compartment.
Vulnerable Road User Impacts: An automobile vs. pedestrian or bicyclist
incident where the victim is thrown, run over, or impacted at a speed greater
than 20 mph.
Motorcycle Collisions: Any motorcycle crash occurring at a speed greater
than 20 mph.
Question: What specific medical equipment must be brought directly to the
patient's bedside for every emergency call?
Answer: ✔✔ The mandatory response gear comprises:
An oxygen delivery system
A cardiac monitor/defibrillator
, Advanced Life Support (ALS) diagnostic and intervention equipment
A functional suction device
Question: What are the five specific physiological parameters that classify an
adult patient as Status 1?
Answer: ✔✔ An adult patient meets Status 1 criteria if they exhibit any of the
following:
1. Neurological: A new-onset Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score less than or
equal to 13, or a drop of 2 or more points from their baseline GCS.
2. Respiratory Rate: A breathing rate less than 10 or greater than 29 breaths
per minute.
3. Oxygenation: An acute oxygen saturation ($SpO_2$) reading falling below
90%.
4. Blood Pressure: A Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) falling below 90 mmHg.
5. Heart Rate: A pulse rate slower than 45 beats per minute or faster than 145
beats per minute.
Question: What three distinct physical assessment findings classify a pediatric
patient as Status 1?
Answer: ✔✔ A pediatric patient is designated as Status 1 based on the Pediatric
Assessment Triangle components showing:
1. Appearance/Tone: Poor or diminished muscle tone (floppiness or lethargy).
2. Breathing: Markedly increased work of breathing (retractions, nasal flaring,
or grunting).
3. Circulation: Reduced or inadequate perfusion to the skin (mottling, pallor,
or delayed capillary refill).
Pediatric patients are defined as ____ years old and younger. -ANSWER ✔✔12
What is the maximum possible GCS? -ANSWER ✔✔15
, What is the lowest possible GCS? -ANSWER ✔✔3
List the 9 secondary assessments - TRAUMA positive findings (status 2) -
ANSWER ✔✔1 All penetrating injuries to head, neck, torso, and extremities
proximal to elbow or knee
2 Chest wall instability or deformity (e.g. flail chest)
3 Two or more proximal long-bone fractures (humerus and femur)
4 Crushed, degloved, mangled or pulseless extremity
5 Amputation proximal to wrist or ankle
6 Pelvic fractures
7 Open or depressed skull fracture
8 Paralysis
9 Fractures with neurovascular compromise (decreased peripheral pulses or
prolonged
capillary refill, motor or sensory deficits distal to fracture)
List the 2 secondary assessment - medical positive findings -ANSWER ✔✔1.
STEMI: Anginal-type chest pain (or anginal equivalent) plus 12 lead ECG
indication of
ST elevation (>1 mm) in at least two contiguous leads
2. New onset stroke / last seen normal < 6 hours (The last seen normal < 6 hours
should include patients without a definite time of LSN but who could reasonably
be assumed to be within 6 hours of onset including patients who wake up with
stroke symptoms.)
The scene goal time for status 1 patients is -ANSWER ✔✔10 minutes
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SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED
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Question: What specific significant mechanisms of injury automatically trigger a
minimum classification of a Status 3 patient?
Answer: ✔✔ A Status 3 designation is required if any of the following trauma
mechanisms occur:
Critical Falls: Greater than 20 feet for an adult (calculating one story as 10
feet), or greater than 10 feet (or two to three times the child's height) for a
pediatric patient.
High-Risk Motor Vehicle Collisions:
o Cabin intrusion exceeding 12 inches at the occupant's seating site, or
exceeding 18 inches at any other location within the vehicle
(including the roof).
o Partial or complete ejection from the automobile.
o A passenger fatality occurring within the exact same occupant
compartment.
Vulnerable Road User Impacts: An automobile vs. pedestrian or bicyclist
incident where the victim is thrown, run over, or impacted at a speed greater
than 20 mph.
Motorcycle Collisions: Any motorcycle crash occurring at a speed greater
than 20 mph.
Question: What specific medical equipment must be brought directly to the
patient's bedside for every emergency call?
Answer: ✔✔ The mandatory response gear comprises:
An oxygen delivery system
A cardiac monitor/defibrillator
, Advanced Life Support (ALS) diagnostic and intervention equipment
A functional suction device
Question: What are the five specific physiological parameters that classify an
adult patient as Status 1?
Answer: ✔✔ An adult patient meets Status 1 criteria if they exhibit any of the
following:
1. Neurological: A new-onset Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score less than or
equal to 13, or a drop of 2 or more points from their baseline GCS.
2. Respiratory Rate: A breathing rate less than 10 or greater than 29 breaths
per minute.
3. Oxygenation: An acute oxygen saturation ($SpO_2$) reading falling below
90%.
4. Blood Pressure: A Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) falling below 90 mmHg.
5. Heart Rate: A pulse rate slower than 45 beats per minute or faster than 145
beats per minute.
Question: What three distinct physical assessment findings classify a pediatric
patient as Status 1?
Answer: ✔✔ A pediatric patient is designated as Status 1 based on the Pediatric
Assessment Triangle components showing:
1. Appearance/Tone: Poor or diminished muscle tone (floppiness or lethargy).
2. Breathing: Markedly increased work of breathing (retractions, nasal flaring,
or grunting).
3. Circulation: Reduced or inadequate perfusion to the skin (mottling, pallor,
or delayed capillary refill).
Pediatric patients are defined as ____ years old and younger. -ANSWER ✔✔12
What is the maximum possible GCS? -ANSWER ✔✔15
, What is the lowest possible GCS? -ANSWER ✔✔3
List the 9 secondary assessments - TRAUMA positive findings (status 2) -
ANSWER ✔✔1 All penetrating injuries to head, neck, torso, and extremities
proximal to elbow or knee
2 Chest wall instability or deformity (e.g. flail chest)
3 Two or more proximal long-bone fractures (humerus and femur)
4 Crushed, degloved, mangled or pulseless extremity
5 Amputation proximal to wrist or ankle
6 Pelvic fractures
7 Open or depressed skull fracture
8 Paralysis
9 Fractures with neurovascular compromise (decreased peripheral pulses or
prolonged
capillary refill, motor or sensory deficits distal to fracture)
List the 2 secondary assessment - medical positive findings -ANSWER ✔✔1.
STEMI: Anginal-type chest pain (or anginal equivalent) plus 12 lead ECG
indication of
ST elevation (>1 mm) in at least two contiguous leads
2. New onset stroke / last seen normal < 6 hours (The last seen normal < 6 hours
should include patients without a definite time of LSN but who could reasonably
be assumed to be within 6 hours of onset including patients who wake up with
stroke symptoms.)
The scene goal time for status 1 patients is -ANSWER ✔✔10 minutes
