ASHI final exam | Questions with Solutions
EMS - -emergency medical services
-Highest level of EMS systems - -paramedic
-Best way to reach EMS - -cellphone
-The primary responsibility of an Emergency Responder - -to ensure the scene is safe for
them and by standers
-Advance directive - -a legal document that outlines a persons wishes regarding his or her
own health care.
-What type of patient would receive an advanced directive? - -A patient that is ill or dying.
-Battery - -attempting to restrain or force care onto someone
-Implied consent - -a form of consent used for unconscious people or people under the
legal age of consent
-Standard precautions - -the set id infection-prevention practices that health care
personnel use when caring for an ill or injured person
-Body substance isolation (BSI) - -precaustions taken to minimize exposure to blood and
other potentially infectious material
-personal protective equipment (PPE) - -equitment such as protective gloves and eyewear
that minimize exposure to plathogens.
-Examples of PPE - -gloves, masks and eye protection
-Emotional responses to stress - -denial, fear, guilt, grief, anxiety
-Primary roles of the respiratory system - -Responsible for the intake of fresh oxygen and
the removal of waste in the form of carbon dioxide
-Proper boy mechanics for lifting - -Position your feet properly- positioned a comfortable
width apart. Lift with your legs. Avoid leaning to either side. Minimize twisting during a lift.
Keep the weight as close to your body as possible.
-Recovery position - -used for responsive or unresponsive people who are found lying
down with adequte breathing and circulation whom you do not suspect to have a spinal
injury.
EMS - -emergency medical services
-Highest level of EMS systems - -paramedic
-Best way to reach EMS - -cellphone
-The primary responsibility of an Emergency Responder - -to ensure the scene is safe for
them and by standers
-Advance directive - -a legal document that outlines a persons wishes regarding his or her
own health care.
-What type of patient would receive an advanced directive? - -A patient that is ill or dying.
-Battery - -attempting to restrain or force care onto someone
-Implied consent - -a form of consent used for unconscious people or people under the
legal age of consent
-Standard precautions - -the set id infection-prevention practices that health care
personnel use when caring for an ill or injured person
-Body substance isolation (BSI) - -precaustions taken to minimize exposure to blood and
other potentially infectious material
-personal protective equipment (PPE) - -equitment such as protective gloves and eyewear
that minimize exposure to plathogens.
-Examples of PPE - -gloves, masks and eye protection
-Emotional responses to stress - -denial, fear, guilt, grief, anxiety
-Primary roles of the respiratory system - -Responsible for the intake of fresh oxygen and
the removal of waste in the form of carbon dioxide
-Proper boy mechanics for lifting - -Position your feet properly- positioned a comfortable
width apart. Lift with your legs. Avoid leaning to either side. Minimize twisting during a lift.
Keep the weight as close to your body as possible.
-Recovery position - -used for responsive or unresponsive people who are found lying
down with adequte breathing and circulation whom you do not suspect to have a spinal
injury.
