FIRST RESPONDER CORRECT FINAL ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What are the 3 severity levels of burns? - ✔✔Superficial (First-degree) only affects
the outer layer of the skin potential swelling
Partial-thickness (Second-degree) includes blistering/swelling
Full thickness (Third-degree) nerve damage causes a lack of pain at the burn site
✔✔What are the 3 types of burns - ✔✔Thermal
Chemical
Electrical
✔✔What are the two types of diabetic conditions? - ✔✔Hyperglycemia
Hypoglycemia
✔✔What is Hyperglycemia - ✔✔High blood sugar - not enough insulin exists in the
person's system to metabolize sugar
✔✔What is Hypoglycemia - ✔✔Low blood sugar - too much insulin exists so there's not
enough sugar in the body.
The patient may not have eaten or took too much insulin
✔✔What is the difference between Hyperthermia and heat exhaustion? - ✔✔When a
patient has Hyperthermia (heat stroke), they will not be sweating.
✔✔What is a Stroke - ✔✔Also known as Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA), is brain
damage due to blockage of an artery.
✔✔What is a generalized seizure - ✔✔It is a seizure that involves the entire brain
✔✔What is a partial seizure? - ✔✔Only part of the brain is affected and there is only
limited disruptions of brain function.
, ✔✔ Correctly recognize the legal implications for law enforcement officers regarding
providing medical care as a Good Samaritan, while at a motor vehicle crash, and while
on duty. - ✔✔N.C.G.S. 20-166(d) deals with helping someone who is injured as a result
of a vehicle crash. Its intent is to protect those who are rendering aid from liability for
civil damages while helping the victim.
✔✔List two types of consent to receive medical care - ✔✔Express (informed) consent
Implied consent
✔✔Identify two important points for express consent - ✔✔1. Officers can be held liable
for assault if the person refuses treatment and the officer helps anyway
2. Kids and mentally incompetent adults aren't legally allowed to give consent
✔✔Identify two important points for implied consent - ✔✔1. Don't delay first aid if a
person needs emergency care and they're unconscious or mentally/physically
incapacitated
2. Implied consent applies to juveniles because they aren't legally allowed to give
consent
✔✔Identify what the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) is - ✔✔HIPAA is the law which prohibits release of
information about a patient - it's the right to privacy
✔✔List at least two exemptions when law enforcement may obtain medical information
from a HIPAA-protected entity. - ✔✔To lessen threats by informing law enforcement
If evidence of a crime that occurred on the premises of the covered entity
To alert law enforcement to the death of the individual when there is suspicion that
death resulted from criminal conduct
When responding to an off-site medical emergency as necessary to alert law
enforcement to criminal activity
To report health information to law enforcement when required by law to do so (like dog
bites, or stab wounds)
To comply with a warrant, subpoena, or summons issued by a judicial officer
To respond to a request for personal health information for purposes of identifying or
locating a suspect fugitive, material witness, or missing person but the information
should be limited to demographic and health information about the person
To respond to a request for personal health information about an adult victim of a crime
when the victim agrees
✔✔List three (3) common types of personal protective equipment and correctly
demonstrate when and how to use them when providing emergency medical care. -
✔✔Gloves
Masks
Eye protection
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What are the 3 severity levels of burns? - ✔✔Superficial (First-degree) only affects
the outer layer of the skin potential swelling
Partial-thickness (Second-degree) includes blistering/swelling
Full thickness (Third-degree) nerve damage causes a lack of pain at the burn site
✔✔What are the 3 types of burns - ✔✔Thermal
Chemical
Electrical
✔✔What are the two types of diabetic conditions? - ✔✔Hyperglycemia
Hypoglycemia
✔✔What is Hyperglycemia - ✔✔High blood sugar - not enough insulin exists in the
person's system to metabolize sugar
✔✔What is Hypoglycemia - ✔✔Low blood sugar - too much insulin exists so there's not
enough sugar in the body.
The patient may not have eaten or took too much insulin
✔✔What is the difference between Hyperthermia and heat exhaustion? - ✔✔When a
patient has Hyperthermia (heat stroke), they will not be sweating.
✔✔What is a Stroke - ✔✔Also known as Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA), is brain
damage due to blockage of an artery.
✔✔What is a generalized seizure - ✔✔It is a seizure that involves the entire brain
✔✔What is a partial seizure? - ✔✔Only part of the brain is affected and there is only
limited disruptions of brain function.
, ✔✔ Correctly recognize the legal implications for law enforcement officers regarding
providing medical care as a Good Samaritan, while at a motor vehicle crash, and while
on duty. - ✔✔N.C.G.S. 20-166(d) deals with helping someone who is injured as a result
of a vehicle crash. Its intent is to protect those who are rendering aid from liability for
civil damages while helping the victim.
✔✔List two types of consent to receive medical care - ✔✔Express (informed) consent
Implied consent
✔✔Identify two important points for express consent - ✔✔1. Officers can be held liable
for assault if the person refuses treatment and the officer helps anyway
2. Kids and mentally incompetent adults aren't legally allowed to give consent
✔✔Identify two important points for implied consent - ✔✔1. Don't delay first aid if a
person needs emergency care and they're unconscious or mentally/physically
incapacitated
2. Implied consent applies to juveniles because they aren't legally allowed to give
consent
✔✔Identify what the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) is - ✔✔HIPAA is the law which prohibits release of
information about a patient - it's the right to privacy
✔✔List at least two exemptions when law enforcement may obtain medical information
from a HIPAA-protected entity. - ✔✔To lessen threats by informing law enforcement
If evidence of a crime that occurred on the premises of the covered entity
To alert law enforcement to the death of the individual when there is suspicion that
death resulted from criminal conduct
When responding to an off-site medical emergency as necessary to alert law
enforcement to criminal activity
To report health information to law enforcement when required by law to do so (like dog
bites, or stab wounds)
To comply with a warrant, subpoena, or summons issued by a judicial officer
To respond to a request for personal health information for purposes of identifying or
locating a suspect fugitive, material witness, or missing person but the information
should be limited to demographic and health information about the person
To respond to a request for personal health information about an adult victim of a crime
when the victim agrees
✔✔List three (3) common types of personal protective equipment and correctly
demonstrate when and how to use them when providing emergency medical care. -
✔✔Gloves
Masks
Eye protection
