AAOS EMERGENCY CARE AND
TRANSPORTATION EXAMS SET TESTED
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● EMT
Answer: Training in BLS and AED. Assisting patient with meds and
airway adjuncts. Takes about 150 hours to complete the class
●● AEMT
Answer: Skills IV therapy and giving emergency medicines. Takes 200-
400 hours to complete the class.
●● Paramedic
Answer: Has extensive training in advanced life support including
endotracheal tubes, emergency pharmacology, and cardiac monitoring.
Takes between 1000-1300 hours to complete.
●● Mobile integrated healthcare (MIH)
Answer: Delivering healthcare to the community (like flu shots and
taking blood pressures) using EMT's. community paramedicine
●● scope of practive
,Answer: Skills each level of EMS provider should be able to
accomplish.
●● Primary Prevention
Answer: Focusing on strategies to prevent events from happening (I.e.
Vaccines)
●● Secondary Prevention
Answer: When and event has occurred, how do we decrease the severity
of the event (I.e. Seat belts, helmets, car seats)
●● Scene Size Up
Answer: Awareness of scene safety and a "big picture" awareness of the
overall situation at hand
●● History of EMS - wars
Answer: WWI- Volunteer Ambulances organized
WWII- Military trained special corpsman to provide care in field and
bring back causalities to aid stations
**Korean War- Field medics and rapid helicopter evacuations to Mobile
Army Surgical hospitals
●● The White Paper
,Answer: 1966- Accidental Death and Disability; the neglected disease of
the modern society.
●● Highway Safety Act of 1966
Answer: Congress mandated NHTSA of the DOT to address the issues
of the adequacy of the prehospital care and transportation; direct result
of "The White Paper" publication.
●● Emergency Medical Services Development Act of the 1973
Answer: Created funding sources and programs to develop improved
systems of the prehospital emergency care.
●● Orange Book
Answer: First EMS book published by the DOT in 1971 called the
Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured
●● Handwashing
Answer: Simplest yet most effective way to control disease transmission
●● What are the hierarchies of the National EMS Scope of Practice
Model?
Answer: Medical Direction, State EMS Offices and the National EMS
Scope of Practice Model.
, ●● General adaptation syndrome
Answer: The body's response to stress that begins with an alarm
response, followed by a stage of reaction and resistance, and then
recovery or, if the stress is prolonged exhaustion
●● Acute stress reactions
Answer: Reactions to stress that occur during a stressful situation
●● airborne transmission
Answer: The spread of an organism in aerosol form.
●● Blood borne pathogens
Answer: Pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood
and can cause disease in humans.
●● Communicable disease
Answer: A disease that can be spread from one person or species to
another
●● Critical incident stress management (CISM)
Answer: A process that confronts the responses to a critical incident and
diffuse them directing the emergency services personnel towards
physical and emotional equilibrium
TRANSPORTATION EXAMS SET TESTED
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● EMT
Answer: Training in BLS and AED. Assisting patient with meds and
airway adjuncts. Takes about 150 hours to complete the class
●● AEMT
Answer: Skills IV therapy and giving emergency medicines. Takes 200-
400 hours to complete the class.
●● Paramedic
Answer: Has extensive training in advanced life support including
endotracheal tubes, emergency pharmacology, and cardiac monitoring.
Takes between 1000-1300 hours to complete.
●● Mobile integrated healthcare (MIH)
Answer: Delivering healthcare to the community (like flu shots and
taking blood pressures) using EMT's. community paramedicine
●● scope of practive
,Answer: Skills each level of EMS provider should be able to
accomplish.
●● Primary Prevention
Answer: Focusing on strategies to prevent events from happening (I.e.
Vaccines)
●● Secondary Prevention
Answer: When and event has occurred, how do we decrease the severity
of the event (I.e. Seat belts, helmets, car seats)
●● Scene Size Up
Answer: Awareness of scene safety and a "big picture" awareness of the
overall situation at hand
●● History of EMS - wars
Answer: WWI- Volunteer Ambulances organized
WWII- Military trained special corpsman to provide care in field and
bring back causalities to aid stations
**Korean War- Field medics and rapid helicopter evacuations to Mobile
Army Surgical hospitals
●● The White Paper
,Answer: 1966- Accidental Death and Disability; the neglected disease of
the modern society.
●● Highway Safety Act of 1966
Answer: Congress mandated NHTSA of the DOT to address the issues
of the adequacy of the prehospital care and transportation; direct result
of "The White Paper" publication.
●● Emergency Medical Services Development Act of the 1973
Answer: Created funding sources and programs to develop improved
systems of the prehospital emergency care.
●● Orange Book
Answer: First EMS book published by the DOT in 1971 called the
Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured
●● Handwashing
Answer: Simplest yet most effective way to control disease transmission
●● What are the hierarchies of the National EMS Scope of Practice
Model?
Answer: Medical Direction, State EMS Offices and the National EMS
Scope of Practice Model.
, ●● General adaptation syndrome
Answer: The body's response to stress that begins with an alarm
response, followed by a stage of reaction and resistance, and then
recovery or, if the stress is prolonged exhaustion
●● Acute stress reactions
Answer: Reactions to stress that occur during a stressful situation
●● airborne transmission
Answer: The spread of an organism in aerosol form.
●● Blood borne pathogens
Answer: Pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood
and can cause disease in humans.
●● Communicable disease
Answer: A disease that can be spread from one person or species to
another
●● Critical incident stress management (CISM)
Answer: A process that confronts the responses to a critical incident and
diffuse them directing the emergency services personnel towards
physical and emotional equilibrium
