EME 106 Final Study Guide Questions
With Correct Answers
Abandonment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Failure to transfer patient to
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another competent professional of equal or higher training
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Assault - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Willful threat to inflict harm on a
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patient
Battery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The act of touching a patient without
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consent
Negligence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Duty - duty to act
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Breach - acting outside scope of practice
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Damages
Cause
Good Samaritan Law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Protects civilians
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performing acts in good faith unless those constitute gross negligence
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,Duty to Act - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Legal obligation to provide service
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when on the clock and employed by an agency
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Scope of Practice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The actions that EMTs are
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legally allowed to perform by the state/county in which they are
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providing emergency care | |
Informed/Expressed Consent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A conscious, | | | | | |
rational patient (over 18) must consent to assessment and treatment
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Implied Consent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Assumption that a(n)...
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1. unresponsive patient
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2. disoriented patient
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3. minor without a parent/guardian present
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...would accept care if he or she could
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DNR - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A document governing resuscitation
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issues
must be signed by patient and physician
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,What type of patient may be placed under a 5150 - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1. Danger to self | | |
2. Danger to others
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3. Gravely disabled
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Compression to ventilation rations CPR - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-30:2
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15:2 for 2-rescuer infant/child CPR
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Hand placement CPR - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Two hands, center of
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chest
| - below sternal notch
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| - above xiphoid process
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Child - one or two hands, center of chest
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Infant
| 1 person - two fingers, 1 finger width
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| below nipple line | |
| 2 person - 2 hand, encircling thumb
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| technique
, How to handle FBAO (complete and incomplete) - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Adult/child - Heimlich maneuver/abdominal thrusts | | | |
Infant - 5 back blows, 5 chest thrusts
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| Continue treatment until | | |
| 1. Obstruction is relieved
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| 2. Patient becomes unresponsive
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| 3. Other rescuers arrive
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UC Adult/child - CPR (look in mouth before giving breaths)
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UC infant - 5 back blows, 5 chest thrusts (look in mouth before breaths)
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Partial Obstruction - encourage patient to stay calm and work to relieve
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obstruction (NO abdominal thrusts) | | |
Pulse checks - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Feel for at least 5 but no longer
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than 10 seconds
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Continue to reassess during CPR | | | |
With Correct Answers
Abandonment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Failure to transfer patient to
| | | | | | | |
another competent professional of equal or higher training
| | | | | | |
Assault - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Willful threat to inflict harm on a
| | | | | | | | | |
patient
Battery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The act of touching a patient without
| | | | | | | | | |
consent
Negligence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Duty - duty to act
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Breach - acting outside scope of practice
| | | | | |
Damages
Cause
Good Samaritan Law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Protects civilians
| | | | | | |
performing acts in good faith unless those constitute gross negligence
| | | | | | | | |
,Duty to Act - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Legal obligation to provide service
| | | | | | | | | |
when on the clock and employed by an agency
| | | | | | | |
Scope of Practice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The actions that EMTs are
| | | | | | | | | |
legally allowed to perform by the state/county in which they are
| | | | | | | | | | |
providing emergency care | |
Informed/Expressed Consent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A conscious, | | | | | |
rational patient (over 18) must consent to assessment and treatment
| | | | | | | | |
Implied Consent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Assumption that a(n)...
| | | | | |
1. unresponsive patient
| | |
2. disoriented patient
| |
3. minor without a parent/guardian present
| | | | |
...would accept care if he or she could
| | | | | | |
DNR - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A document governing resuscitation
| | | | | | |
issues
must be signed by patient and physician
| | | | | |
,What type of patient may be placed under a 5150 - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1. Danger to self | | |
2. Danger to others
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3. Gravely disabled
| |
Compression to ventilation rations CPR - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-30:2
| | | | | | |
15:2 for 2-rescuer infant/child CPR
| | | |
Hand placement CPR - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Two hands, center of
| | | | | | | | |
chest
| - below sternal notch
| | |
| - above xiphoid process
| | |
Child - one or two hands, center of chest
| | | | | | | |
Infant
| 1 person - two fingers, 1 finger width
| | | | | | | |
| below nipple line | |
| 2 person - 2 hand, encircling thumb
| | | | | | |
| technique
, How to handle FBAO (complete and incomplete) - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Adult/child - Heimlich maneuver/abdominal thrusts | | | |
Infant - 5 back blows, 5 chest thrusts
| | | | | | |
| Continue treatment until | | |
| 1. Obstruction is relieved
| | |
| 2. Patient becomes unresponsive
| | |
| 3. Other rescuers arrive
| | |
UC Adult/child - CPR (look in mouth before giving breaths)
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UC infant - 5 back blows, 5 chest thrusts (look in mouth before breaths)
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Partial Obstruction - encourage patient to stay calm and work to relieve
| | | | | | | | | | | |
obstruction (NO abdominal thrusts) | | |
Pulse checks - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Feel for at least 5 but no longer
| | | | | | | | | | | |
than 10 seconds
| |
Continue to reassess during CPR | | | |
