EMT B Basic Final Exam ALL 300 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE THIS
YEAR
QUESTION: Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification. - ANSWER-National
Registery
QUESTION: Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field. -
ANSWER-Medical Control
QUESTION: Recognition, patient assesment, continued assesment and stabilization in hospital,
definitive care. - ANSWER-Continuum of Care
Q; Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses? - ANSWER-DOT
QUESTION: Types of stress include: - ANSWER-Cumulative, post-traumatic stress reaction,
eustruss, acute stress, and chronic stress
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QUESTION: S/S of stress include: - ANSWER-Increased respiratory rate, heart rate, and B/P,
vasodilation, dialted pupils, tensed muscles, increased glucose levels, perspiration, deacreased
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,
alcholism, drug use.
QUESTION: Management of stress includes: - 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, excercise, diet.
QUESTION: Fight or Flight response: - ANSWER-During an acute stress response, the autonomic
nervous system is activated and the body increases level of cotricol, adrenilen, 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".
QUESTION: Routes of transmission include: - ANSWER-Direct - touch or droplets
Indirect - spread by inanimate objects
Mechanical (vector born) - by insects
Biological - Transmissions by which the germs live or grow
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Airborne - sneezes, coughs
Dust - may carry pores, may remain for long periods.
QUESTION: Control and prevention of contamination include? - ANSWER-Hand washing, gloves,
eye protection, gowns, masks, mask, respirators, barrier devices, and immunizations.
QUESTION: Duty to Act is? - ANSWER-An obligation to provide care.
QUESTION: Duties include: - ANSWER-Duty to:
-Respond
-Obey laws and regulations
-Operate an emergerncy 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
QUESTION: The scope of practice is? - ANSWER-Descriptionof what assessment and treatment
skills and EMT may legally perform.
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QUESTION: Implied consent is? - ANSWER-Consent in which a patient is unable to give consent
and is provided treatment under the implication they would want treament.
QUESTION: Informed consent is? - ANSWER-Permission for treatment given by a patient after
the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained.
QUESTION: Ethics - ANSWER-The discipline dealing with what is good and bad.
QUESTION: Standard of care is? - ANSWER-The degree of medical care and skill that is expected
of a resonably competent EMT acting in the same or similar circumstances.
QUESTION: Confidentiality is? - ANSWER-Communication between you and the patient is
considered confindential and can only be released to other medical staff or with a court order.
QUESTION: Definite signs of death include: - ANSWER-Obvious mortal damage, dependent
lividity, rigor mortis, putrefaction.
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