Orange County Protocols FL EMS Prep
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A patient is considered what? - Correct Answers Any person who is requesting and/or in need of
medical attention or medical assistance of any kind
All patients in care of EMS shall be offered what? - Correct Answers Transport by ambulance to
the nearest appropriate hospital or other protocol based destination.
How many minutes does the paramedic have to decide if ALS care is required post contact? -
Correct Answers 3 minutes
Initial assessment and therapy should be completed within how many minutes after patient
contact? - Correct Answers 10 minutes unless special circumstances like extraction
Trauma patients should be en route to a receiving facility in how many mins post contact? -
Correct Answers 10 minutes
Cardiac arrest PTs, call into dispatch the following times: - Correct Answers -PT contact
-First shock time
Prior to administration of RX, what must we assess for? - Correct Answers Allergies
When caring for a PEDS PT, how we do we determine what RX and equipment to use? - Correct
Answers Weight and length based tape
EMTs are authorized to preform? - Correct Answers -BVM
-Capno
-BGL evals
, -LTA
What needs to be monitored for a parenteral who recivied narcotics and sedatives agents? -
Correct Answers -Cardiac
-O2 sat
-ETCO2
When should Poison Control be contacted? - Correct Answers -OD's
-Poisonous/HAZMAT material
-Envenomations
What do we do if poison control gives us order not in our protocol? - Correct Answers Follow
the order
Noncritical PTs who have no resp distress need to achieve an O2 sat of how much? - Correct
Answers 95%
All PT's should be offered transport where? - Correct Answers To the hospital of there choice
unless unstable
All PT's whos condition is judged to be unstable should be transported where? - Correct
Answers Closest appropriate receiving facility
If several hospitals are within the same distance, where should you take the PT? - Correct
Answers All the PT or PT's family to choose
More than one attendant is required in the back of an ALS unit when...? - Correct Answers -
Medical/trauma cardiac arrest or post ROSC
Test with correct answers 100% 2026
A patient is considered what? - Correct Answers Any person who is requesting and/or in need of
medical attention or medical assistance of any kind
All patients in care of EMS shall be offered what? - Correct Answers Transport by ambulance to
the nearest appropriate hospital or other protocol based destination.
How many minutes does the paramedic have to decide if ALS care is required post contact? -
Correct Answers 3 minutes
Initial assessment and therapy should be completed within how many minutes after patient
contact? - Correct Answers 10 minutes unless special circumstances like extraction
Trauma patients should be en route to a receiving facility in how many mins post contact? -
Correct Answers 10 minutes
Cardiac arrest PTs, call into dispatch the following times: - Correct Answers -PT contact
-First shock time
Prior to administration of RX, what must we assess for? - Correct Answers Allergies
When caring for a PEDS PT, how we do we determine what RX and equipment to use? - Correct
Answers Weight and length based tape
EMTs are authorized to preform? - Correct Answers -BVM
-Capno
-BGL evals
, -LTA
What needs to be monitored for a parenteral who recivied narcotics and sedatives agents? -
Correct Answers -Cardiac
-O2 sat
-ETCO2
When should Poison Control be contacted? - Correct Answers -OD's
-Poisonous/HAZMAT material
-Envenomations
What do we do if poison control gives us order not in our protocol? - Correct Answers Follow
the order
Noncritical PTs who have no resp distress need to achieve an O2 sat of how much? - Correct
Answers 95%
All PT's should be offered transport where? - Correct Answers To the hospital of there choice
unless unstable
All PT's whos condition is judged to be unstable should be transported where? - Correct
Answers Closest appropriate receiving facility
If several hospitals are within the same distance, where should you take the PT? - Correct
Answers All the PT or PT's family to choose
More than one attendant is required in the back of an ALS unit when...? - Correct Answers -
Medical/trauma cardiac arrest or post ROSC
