EMT-B Basic Final Exam Review 2022
Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses?
Correct Answer: DOT
Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification.
Correct Answer: National Registry
Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field.
Correct Answer :Medical Control
Recognition, patient assessment, continued assessment and stabilization in hospital, definitive care.
Correct Answer :Continuum of Care
Types of stress include:
Correct Answer: Cumulative, post-traumatic stress reaction, eustress, acute stress, and chronic stress
S/S of stress include:
Correct Answer : Increased respiratory rate, heart rate, and B/P, vasodilation, dilated pupils, tensed
muscles, increased glucose levels, perspiration, decreased blood flow to gastrointestinal tract,
irritability, inability to concentrate, difficult or increased sleeping, anxiety, guilt, loss of appetite,
decreased sexual activity, loss of interest in work, alcoholism, drug use.
Management of stress includes:
Correct Answer: Eliminate stressors, change partners, get rid of negative personalities, change work
hours, reduce overtime, change your attitude, don't obsess over what you can't change, exercise, diet.
Fight or Flight response: Correct Answer During an acute stress response, the autonomic nervous system
is activated and the body increases level of cortical, adrenaline, and other hormones that produce an
increased heart rate, quick breathing, and higher BP. Blood is shunted from extremities to the big
muscles to "fight or flight".
Routes of transmission include:
Correct Answer: Direct - touch or droplets
Indirect - spread by inanimate objects
Mechanical (vector born) - by insects
Biological - Transmissions by which the germs live or grow
Airborne - sneezes, coughs
Dust - may carry pores, may remain for long periods.
Control and prevention of contamination include?
Correct Answer : Hand washing, gloves, eye protection, gowns, masks, mask, respirators, barrier
devices, and immunizations.
Duty to Act is?
, Correct Answer: An obligation to provide care.
Duties include:
Correct Answer: Duty to:
-Respond
-Obey laws and regulations
-Operate an emergency vehicle reasonably and prudently
-Provide care and transportation to expected standard
-Provide care and transport consistent with the scope of practice and local medicine protocol
-Continue and transport through to its appropriate conclusion
The scope of practice is?
Correct Answer :Description of what assessment and treatment skills and EMT may legally perform.
Implied consent is?
Correct Answer: Consent in which a patient is unable to give consent and is provided treatment under
the implication they would want treatment.
Informed consent is?
Correct Answer: Permission for treatment given by a patient after the potential risks, benefits, and
alternatives to treatment have been explained.
Ethics
Correct Answer: The discipline dealing with what is good and bad.
Standard of care is?
Correct Answer: The degree of medical care and skill that is expected of a reasonably competent EMT
acting in the same or similar circumstances.
Confidentiality is?
Correct Answer: Communication between you and the patient is considered confidential and can only
be released to other medical staff or with a court order.
Definite signs of death include:
Correct Answer: Obvious mortal damage, dependent lividity , rigor mortis, putrefaction.
Obvious mortal damage:
Correct Answer: Injuries such as decapitation or non survivable injury.
Dependent lividity
Correct Answer: Blood settling to the lowest part of the body. "Pooling"
Rigor mortis
Correct Answer: Stiffening of body muscles caused by chemical changes in the body. Develops in the
face and jaw, gradually extending downward. Onset is affected by body's ability to lose temp (thin=fast,
fat body=slow). Occurs between 2-12 hours after death
Putrefaction
Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses?
Correct Answer: DOT
Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification.
Correct Answer: National Registry
Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field.
Correct Answer :Medical Control
Recognition, patient assessment, continued assessment and stabilization in hospital, definitive care.
Correct Answer :Continuum of Care
Types of stress include:
Correct Answer: Cumulative, post-traumatic stress reaction, eustress, acute stress, and chronic stress
S/S of stress include:
Correct Answer : Increased respiratory rate, heart rate, and B/P, vasodilation, dilated pupils, tensed
muscles, increased glucose levels, perspiration, decreased blood flow to gastrointestinal tract,
irritability, inability to concentrate, difficult or increased sleeping, anxiety, guilt, loss of appetite,
decreased sexual activity, loss of interest in work, alcoholism, drug use.
Management of stress includes:
Correct Answer: Eliminate stressors, change partners, get rid of negative personalities, change work
hours, reduce overtime, change your attitude, don't obsess over what you can't change, exercise, diet.
Fight or Flight response: Correct Answer During an acute stress response, the autonomic nervous system
is activated and the body increases level of cortical, adrenaline, and other hormones that produce an
increased heart rate, quick breathing, and higher BP. Blood is shunted from extremities to the big
muscles to "fight or flight".
Routes of transmission include:
Correct Answer: Direct - touch or droplets
Indirect - spread by inanimate objects
Mechanical (vector born) - by insects
Biological - Transmissions by which the germs live or grow
Airborne - sneezes, coughs
Dust - may carry pores, may remain for long periods.
Control and prevention of contamination include?
Correct Answer : Hand washing, gloves, eye protection, gowns, masks, mask, respirators, barrier
devices, and immunizations.
Duty to Act is?
, Correct Answer: An obligation to provide care.
Duties include:
Correct Answer: Duty to:
-Respond
-Obey laws and regulations
-Operate an emergency vehicle reasonably and prudently
-Provide care and transportation to expected standard
-Provide care and transport consistent with the scope of practice and local medicine protocol
-Continue and transport through to its appropriate conclusion
The scope of practice is?
Correct Answer :Description of what assessment and treatment skills and EMT may legally perform.
Implied consent is?
Correct Answer: Consent in which a patient is unable to give consent and is provided treatment under
the implication they would want treatment.
Informed consent is?
Correct Answer: Permission for treatment given by a patient after the potential risks, benefits, and
alternatives to treatment have been explained.
Ethics
Correct Answer: The discipline dealing with what is good and bad.
Standard of care is?
Correct Answer: The degree of medical care and skill that is expected of a reasonably competent EMT
acting in the same or similar circumstances.
Confidentiality is?
Correct Answer: Communication between you and the patient is considered confidential and can only
be released to other medical staff or with a court order.
Definite signs of death include:
Correct Answer: Obvious mortal damage, dependent lividity , rigor mortis, putrefaction.
Obvious mortal damage:
Correct Answer: Injuries such as decapitation or non survivable injury.
Dependent lividity
Correct Answer: Blood settling to the lowest part of the body. "Pooling"
Rigor mortis
Correct Answer: Stiffening of body muscles caused by chemical changes in the body. Develops in the
face and jaw, gradually extending downward. Onset is affected by body's ability to lose temp (thin=fast,
fat body=slow). Occurs between 2-12 hours after death
Putrefaction
