EMT 170 Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025-2026
Type 1 Ambulance - Answers Based on the chassis cabs of light duty pick up trucks
Type 2 Ambulance - Answers Based on modern passenger/cargo vans
Type 3 Ambulance - Answers Based on the chassis cabs of light duty vans
Who provides federal standards and their revisions provide the basis for uniformity in the design
of ambulance vehicles - Answers NHTSA & NAS-NRC
What response system allows for a safer emergency response and helps to ensure that the
proper resources and personnel are available during an emergency? Usually several units or
several agencies respond. - Answers Tiered respons system
What situations do not give the ambulance the right of way? - Answers School zones, Passing
the school bus, and rail road tracks
How do you proceed through an intersection? - Answers Make eye contact with others and
make the sirens yelp & wail.
TPD and TFD are already scene. How do you position the ambulance? - Answers 100ft past the
scene
Hazardous material is present on scene how do you position the ambulance? - Answers Uphill
and Upwind approximately 200ft
TPD and TFD are NOT on scene. How do you position the ambulance? - Answers Diagonally 50ft
in front of the scene in the fend off position
What to consider when requesting aeromedical transport? - Answers Ground transport time
would pose a threat to the patients survival and recovery
Weather, road, or traffic conditions
Critical care personnel are needed to provide adequate care
If you are requesting Helicopter transport, what do you need to provide to the flight crew? -
Answers Type of emergency response
Number of patients
Location of LZ
Ideal LZ - Answers 100x100ft with no overhead wires or vertical structures that can hinder
takeoff or landing. Relatively flat less than 10 degrees.
You never use flare to set up the perimeter of the LZ. What else can you use? - Answers Cones,
, Strobes, or Light bar from the emergency vehicles
Incident Command System Section - Answers Finance/Admin
Logistics
Operations
Planning
Incident command system staff positions - Answers Information- media and release of info
Safety
Lasion - on scene communication for other agencies
ICS major incident priorities - Answers Life safety
Incident stability
Property conservation
Mass Causality Incident criteria - Answers More than 2 ambulances required
Haz Mat, Radioactive, Chemical materials
Large number of ambulances
SALT - Answers Sort, Assess, Life saving interventions, Tx/Transport
SALT Step 1 Sort Priorities - Answers Priority 1 - Obvious life threats
Priority 2 - Makes purposeful movements
Priority 3 - Can walk
SALT Step 2 - Answers Limited rapid lifesaving rapid interventions
Major bleed
Basic airway control
Child can be given 2 rescue breaths
Chest decompression
Auto-injector antidotes
SALT Step 3 - Answers Lifesaving interventions done rapidly and do not fetch other supplies
Type 1 Ambulance - Answers Based on the chassis cabs of light duty pick up trucks
Type 2 Ambulance - Answers Based on modern passenger/cargo vans
Type 3 Ambulance - Answers Based on the chassis cabs of light duty vans
Who provides federal standards and their revisions provide the basis for uniformity in the design
of ambulance vehicles - Answers NHTSA & NAS-NRC
What response system allows for a safer emergency response and helps to ensure that the
proper resources and personnel are available during an emergency? Usually several units or
several agencies respond. - Answers Tiered respons system
What situations do not give the ambulance the right of way? - Answers School zones, Passing
the school bus, and rail road tracks
How do you proceed through an intersection? - Answers Make eye contact with others and
make the sirens yelp & wail.
TPD and TFD are already scene. How do you position the ambulance? - Answers 100ft past the
scene
Hazardous material is present on scene how do you position the ambulance? - Answers Uphill
and Upwind approximately 200ft
TPD and TFD are NOT on scene. How do you position the ambulance? - Answers Diagonally 50ft
in front of the scene in the fend off position
What to consider when requesting aeromedical transport? - Answers Ground transport time
would pose a threat to the patients survival and recovery
Weather, road, or traffic conditions
Critical care personnel are needed to provide adequate care
If you are requesting Helicopter transport, what do you need to provide to the flight crew? -
Answers Type of emergency response
Number of patients
Location of LZ
Ideal LZ - Answers 100x100ft with no overhead wires or vertical structures that can hinder
takeoff or landing. Relatively flat less than 10 degrees.
You never use flare to set up the perimeter of the LZ. What else can you use? - Answers Cones,
, Strobes, or Light bar from the emergency vehicles
Incident Command System Section - Answers Finance/Admin
Logistics
Operations
Planning
Incident command system staff positions - Answers Information- media and release of info
Safety
Lasion - on scene communication for other agencies
ICS major incident priorities - Answers Life safety
Incident stability
Property conservation
Mass Causality Incident criteria - Answers More than 2 ambulances required
Haz Mat, Radioactive, Chemical materials
Large number of ambulances
SALT - Answers Sort, Assess, Life saving interventions, Tx/Transport
SALT Step 1 Sort Priorities - Answers Priority 1 - Obvious life threats
Priority 2 - Makes purposeful movements
Priority 3 - Can walk
SALT Step 2 - Answers Limited rapid lifesaving rapid interventions
Major bleed
Basic airway control
Child can be given 2 rescue breaths
Chest decompression
Auto-injector antidotes
SALT Step 3 - Answers Lifesaving interventions done rapidly and do not fetch other supplies
