VERSIONS) NEWEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL
EXAM COMPLETE 400 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Which of the following skills or interventions is included at every level of
prehospital emergency training? - ✔✔Automatic external defibrillation
Which of the following statements regarding the EMS medical director and an
EMT's scope of practice is correct? - ✔✔An EMT's scope of practice may be
expanded by the medical director after proper training and state approval
Which of the following statements regarding the different stages of the grieving
process is correct? - ✔✔the stages of the grieving process may occur
simultaneously.
Your partner, a veteran EMT whom you have worked with regularly for the past
4 years, seems unusually agitated during a call involving an elderly patient.
Upon arrival back at your station, you note the obvious smell of alcohol on his
breath. What should you do? - ✔✔discreetly report your suspicions to your
supervisor
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,You have been working at the scene of a major building collapse for 8 hours.
Many injured people are still being removed, and everyone is becoming
frustrated and losing focus. This situation is MOST effectively managed by: -
✔✔requesting CISM team to provide an on-scene peer support
If you are exposed to a patient's blood or other bodily fluid, your first action
should be to: - ✔✔transfer care of the patient to another EMS provider
When faced with a situation in which a patient is in cardiac arrest, and a valid
living will or DNR order cannot be located you should: - ✔✔begin resuscitation
at once
Your BEST protection against legal liability when a competent patient refuses
EMS care and transport is to: - ✔✔thoroughly document the entire event
Which of the following scenarios is an example of informed consent? - ✔✔an
EMT advises a patient of the risks of receiving treatment
Typical components of an oral patient report include all of the following,
EXCEPT: - ✔✔the set of baseline vital signs taken at the scene
Calming and reassuring an anxious patient can be facilitated by: -
✔✔maintaining eye contact with the patient whenever possible
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, A 60-year-old man complains of chest pain. He is conscious and alert and denies
shortness of breath. Which of the following questions would be the MOST
appropriate to ask him? - ✔✔"Do you have any heart problems or take any
medication?"
Enlargement of the liver is called: - ✔✔hepatomegaly
The areas of the spinal column, in descending order, are: - ✔✔cervical, thoracic,
lumbar, sacral, coccyx
Which of the following statements regarding smooth muscle is correct? - ✔✔A
person has no voluntary control over smooth muscle
Relative to an adult's airway anatomy, the child's: - ✔✔pharynx is smaller and
less deeply curved
When assessing an 80-year-old patient in shock, it is important to remember
that: - ✔✔age-related changes in the cardiovascular system may make the
patient less able to compensate for decreased perfusion
Infants are often referred to as "belly breathers" because: - ✔✔their rib cage is
less rigid and the ribs sit horizontally
You have two patients who were involved in a motor vehicle crash when their
SUV struck a tree- one with neck and back pain, and the other with a deformed
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