Test Bank for Prehospital Emergency Care (12th Ed) by Joseph J. Mistovich, Keith J. Karren, and Brent Q. Hafen [FULLY UPDATED 2025!!]

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,Prehospital Emergency Care, 12thED(Mistovich et al.)
Chapter 1 Emergency Care Systems, Research, and Public Health
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1) What is a primary purpose of the modern-day EMS system?
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A) Provide a means of transport to and from the hospital
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B) Ensure that all members of society have equal access to hospitals
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C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and illness
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D) Provide emergency health care services to medically underserved area
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sAnswer: C
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2) Most authorities agree that the modern-
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day EMS system evolved after the release of whichdocument?
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A) The Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
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B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Moder
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nSociety" in 1966
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C) The American Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiac Resuscitation
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D) Emergency Medical Services: Agenda for the Future, in 199 q! q! q! q! q! q! q! q!


6Answer: B
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3) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that he would like to work for
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your emergency ambulance service on a full-
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time ba s. Knowing the National EMS Scope ofPractice Model, you inform him of which ele
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ment?
A) He will be able to take care of only patients with non-life-threatening complaints
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B) He will first need approval from your ambulance service's medical director
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C) He will be able to work only with an Advanced EMT or paramedic
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D) He will first have to become an Emergency Medical Technicia
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nAnswer: D
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4) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of EM
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Spractitioners include:
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B) EMS medical director q! q!


C) Paramedics
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Answer: C q !


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,5) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that he is interested i
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nbecoming an EMT. Specifically, he asks what he will be able to do as an EMT that he cann
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ot presently do as an EMR. You respond by saying he will be able to:
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A) Administer some medications q! q!


B) As st in emergency childbirth
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C) Use an automated external defibrillator
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D) Obtain vital gns q! q!q! q!


Answer: A q !


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6) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-
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old female in cardiac arrest. Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs) are on scene. In your co
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mmunity, all EMS practitioners are trained according to the National EMS Scope of Practice
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Model. Given this, which type of care do youexpect the EMRs to be providing?
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A) Emergency medication administration q! q!


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7) An EMT with your service states that she de res to become a paramedic because she wants t
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oprovide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, which one of these
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types of care will she be able to provide as a paramedic that she cannot provide as an EMT?
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A) Automated blood pressure monitoring q! q! q!


B) As stance with emergency childbirth
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yAnswer: D
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8) Which statement made by an EMT requires immediate intervention by a superior or th
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eservice supervisor?
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A) "I always wear my seat belt whenever I am in the patient compartment of the ambulanc
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e,unless I have to remove it to care for a patient."
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B) "I drive as fast as I can to get to the scene of an emergency, especially if a child is ck o
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rinjured according to dispatch information."
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C) "When I am driving with lights and rens, I instruct my partner that he will need to handle al
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lradio communications."
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D) "I put exam gloves on for every patient I contact, even if he or she does not have a known
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orsuspected infectious disease."
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, 9) Which statement shows that the EMT has a good understanding of her role an
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drespon bilities related to being an EMT?
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A) "The patient's needs come before anyone else's needs."
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B) "At the scene of an emergency, my respon bility is to get to the patient no matter what."
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C) "My safety comes first, and then the patient's safety."
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D) "As an EMT, I recognize that the public's safety comes before the safety of me or m
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ypartner."
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10) An ambulance with two EMTs arrives in front of a house for an unknown medical emergen
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cy. On scene, bystanders report that a female patient was beaten by her husband in the drivewa
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y and then dragged back into the house. They state that the patient appeared unconsciousand wa
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s bleeding from the head. Which action would the EMTs perform next?
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A) Do not enter the scene until it has been controlled by law enforcement
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B) Quietly enter the home and quickly move the patient to the ambulance
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C) Remove the husband from the house, then provide emergency care to the wife
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D) Enter the home to protect the patient while waiting for the police to arriv
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eAnswer: A
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11) Why is EMS in a unique po tion to contribute gnificantly to mobile integrated health care?
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A) EMS providers are familiar with and capable of functioning in the out-of-
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C) The community trusts uniformed health care providers
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D) EMS providers are familiar with the many routes of medication administratio
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nAnswer: A
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