AAOS 100 Test Examination Questions
When parking your vehicle at an emergency scene, you should:
A) protect the emergency scene from traffic hazards.
B) avoid reflective vests
C) first ensure the safety of your partner and the patient.
D) park your vehicle as close to the patient as possible.
A) protect the emergency scene from traffic hazards.
You are dispatched to assist EMT's with an injured person. You are the
first responder to arrive at the scene. As you are getting out of your
vehicle, you hear someone screaming. What should you do?
Retreat to a safe distance until law enforcement personnel arrive.
,Federal regulations require that all vehicles transporting a certain
quantity of hazardous materials:
be marked with a placard that identifies the material being transported.
Which component of the PACE mnemonic of crew resource
management involves looking or asking to confirm the problem or
make sense of the situation?
Probe
Which of the following most accurately describes shock?
,A) Massive internal bleeding
B) Cardiovascular system collapse
C) Excess carbon dioxide removal
B) Cardiovascular system collapse
Any time you approach a patient with a soft-tissue injury, your MOST
immediate priority should be to:
take standard precautions
Which of the following statements regarding the heart is false?
A) The heart functions as the human circulatory system's pump.
B) The lower chambers of the heart are the left and right ventricles.
, C) The atria are reservoirs for blood returning from the body and the
lungs.
D) The atria are highly muscular and do most of the pumping from the
heart.
D) The atria are highly muscular and do most of the pumping for the
heart.
The transporting medium for the solid parts of the blood is called:
plasma
A patient with an infection would be expected to have an increased
number of: