AAOS EMERGENCY CARE AND
TRANSPORTATION ACTUAL TEST
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWER
GUIDE
●● ALS
Answer: h. Advanced procedures such as drug administration
●● BLS
Answer: f. Basic life saving interventions, such as CPR
●● EMT-B
Answer: m. EMS professional trained in BLS
●● EMT-I
Answer: g. EMS professional trained in some ALS interventions
●● EMT-P
Answer: a. EMS professional trained in ALS
●● Medical Control
,Answer: k. Physician instruction to EMS team
●● CQI
Answer: b. A system of internal reviews and audits
●● EMS
Answer: c. A system to provide prehospital care to the sick and injured
●● Continuing Education
Answer: l. A required amount of training to maintain skills
●● Quality Control
Answer: e. Responsibility of the medical director to ensure appropriate
care is delivered by an EMT
●● Primary service area
Answer: i. Designated area in which the EMS service is responsibility
●● Medical Director
Answer: d. the physician who authorizes the EMT to operate in the field
●● Americans with Disabilities Act
,Answer: j. protects disabled individuals from discrimination
●● Control of external bleeding, provision of Oxygen and CPR are
included in the "Scope of Practice" of the:
A): EMT-P
B): EMT-B
C): EMT-I
D): EMT-D
Answer: B
●● All of the following are true of medical control except:
A): It is determined by the dispatcher
B): It may be written or "standing orders"
C): It may require online radio or phone consultation
D): It describe the care authorized by the medical director
Answer: A
●● All of the following are components of continuous quality control
except:
A): Periodic run reviews
B): remedial training
C): internal reviews and audits
D): public seminars and meetings
, Answer: D
●● The major goal of quality improvement is to ensure that:
A): quarterly audits of the EMS system are done
B): EMT's have received BLS/CPR training
C): the public receives the highest standard of care
D): the proper information is received in the billing department
Answer: C
●● Your main concern while responding to a call should be:
A): safety of the crew and yourself
B): number of potential patients
C): request for mutual assistance
D): type of call
Answer: A
●● The following Questions relate to this scenario:
After stocking the ambulance this morning, you and your partner go out
for breakfast. When entering the restaurant you see an older gentlemen
clutch his chest and fall to the floor. When you get to him, he has no
pulse and is not breathing.
Answer:
TRANSPORTATION ACTUAL TEST
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWER
GUIDE
●● ALS
Answer: h. Advanced procedures such as drug administration
●● BLS
Answer: f. Basic life saving interventions, such as CPR
●● EMT-B
Answer: m. EMS professional trained in BLS
●● EMT-I
Answer: g. EMS professional trained in some ALS interventions
●● EMT-P
Answer: a. EMS professional trained in ALS
●● Medical Control
,Answer: k. Physician instruction to EMS team
●● CQI
Answer: b. A system of internal reviews and audits
●● EMS
Answer: c. A system to provide prehospital care to the sick and injured
●● Continuing Education
Answer: l. A required amount of training to maintain skills
●● Quality Control
Answer: e. Responsibility of the medical director to ensure appropriate
care is delivered by an EMT
●● Primary service area
Answer: i. Designated area in which the EMS service is responsibility
●● Medical Director
Answer: d. the physician who authorizes the EMT to operate in the field
●● Americans with Disabilities Act
,Answer: j. protects disabled individuals from discrimination
●● Control of external bleeding, provision of Oxygen and CPR are
included in the "Scope of Practice" of the:
A): EMT-P
B): EMT-B
C): EMT-I
D): EMT-D
Answer: B
●● All of the following are true of medical control except:
A): It is determined by the dispatcher
B): It may be written or "standing orders"
C): It may require online radio or phone consultation
D): It describe the care authorized by the medical director
Answer: A
●● All of the following are components of continuous quality control
except:
A): Periodic run reviews
B): remedial training
C): internal reviews and audits
D): public seminars and meetings
, Answer: D
●● The major goal of quality improvement is to ensure that:
A): quarterly audits of the EMS system are done
B): EMT's have received BLS/CPR training
C): the public receives the highest standard of care
D): the proper information is received in the billing department
Answer: C
●● Your main concern while responding to a call should be:
A): safety of the crew and yourself
B): number of potential patients
C): request for mutual assistance
D): type of call
Answer: A
●● The following Questions relate to this scenario:
After stocking the ambulance this morning, you and your partner go out
for breakfast. When entering the restaurant you see an older gentlemen
clutch his chest and fall to the floor. When you get to him, he has no
pulse and is not breathing.
Answer:
