AAOS EMT CORRECT FINAL EXAMS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔standard precautions - ✔✔Protective measures that have traditionally been
developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for use in dealing with
objects, blood, body fluids, and other potential exposure risks of communicable disease.
✔✔transmission - ✔✔The way in which an infectious disease is spread: contact,
airborne, by vehicles, or by vectors.
✔✔vector-borne transmission - ✔✔The use of an animal to spread an organism from
one person, species or place to another.
✔✔base station - ✔✔Any radio hardware containing a transmitter and receiver that is
located in a fixed place.
✔✔cellular telephone - ✔✔A low-power portable radio that communicates through an
interconnected series of repeater stations called "cells."
✔✔Channel - ✔✔An assigned frequency or frequencies that are used to carry voice
and/or data communications.
✔✔close-ended questions - ✔✔Questions that can be answered in short or single word
responses.
✔✔Communication - ✔✔The transmission of information to another person—verbally or
through body language.
✔✔cultural imposition - ✔✔When one person imposes his or her beliefs, values, and
practices on another because he or she believe his or her ideals are superior.
, ✔✔dedicated line - ✔✔A special telephone line that is used for specific point-to-point
communications; also known as a "hotline."
✔✔Documentation - ✔✔The written portion of the EMT's patient interaction. This
becomes part of the patient's permanent medical record.
✔✔Duplex - ✔✔The ability to transmit and receive simultaneously.
✔✔Ethnocentrism - ✔✔When a person considers his or her own cultural values as more
important when interacting with people of a different culture.
✔✔Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - ✔✔The federal agency that has
jurisdiction over interstate and international telephone and telegraph services and
satellite communications, all of which may involve EMS activity.
✔✔MED channels - ✔✔VHF and UHF channels that the Federal Communications
Commission has designated exclusively for EMS use.
✔✔mobile data terminals (MDT) - ✔✔Small computer terminals inside ambulances that
directly receive data from the dispatch center.
✔✔Noise - ✔✔Anything that dampens or obscures the true meaning of a message.
✔✔open-ended questions - ✔✔Questions for which the patient must provide detail to
give an answer.
✔✔Paging - ✔✔The use of a radio signal and a voice or digital message that is
transmitted to pagers ("beepers") or desktop monitor radios.
✔✔patient care report (PCR) - ✔✔The legal document used to record all patient care
activities. This report has direct patient care functions but also administrative and quality
control functions. PCRs are also known as prehospital care reports.
✔✔Proxemics - ✔✔The study of space between people and its effects on
communication.
✔✔Rapport - ✔✔A trusting relationship that you build with your patient.
✔✔Repeater - ✔✔A special base station radio that receives messages and signals on
one frequency and then automatically retransmits them on a second frequency.
✔✔Scanner - ✔✔A radio receiver that searches or "scans" across several frequencies
until the message is completed; the process is then repeated.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔standard precautions - ✔✔Protective measures that have traditionally been
developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for use in dealing with
objects, blood, body fluids, and other potential exposure risks of communicable disease.
✔✔transmission - ✔✔The way in which an infectious disease is spread: contact,
airborne, by vehicles, or by vectors.
✔✔vector-borne transmission - ✔✔The use of an animal to spread an organism from
one person, species or place to another.
✔✔base station - ✔✔Any radio hardware containing a transmitter and receiver that is
located in a fixed place.
✔✔cellular telephone - ✔✔A low-power portable radio that communicates through an
interconnected series of repeater stations called "cells."
✔✔Channel - ✔✔An assigned frequency or frequencies that are used to carry voice
and/or data communications.
✔✔close-ended questions - ✔✔Questions that can be answered in short or single word
responses.
✔✔Communication - ✔✔The transmission of information to another person—verbally or
through body language.
✔✔cultural imposition - ✔✔When one person imposes his or her beliefs, values, and
practices on another because he or she believe his or her ideals are superior.
, ✔✔dedicated line - ✔✔A special telephone line that is used for specific point-to-point
communications; also known as a "hotline."
✔✔Documentation - ✔✔The written portion of the EMT's patient interaction. This
becomes part of the patient's permanent medical record.
✔✔Duplex - ✔✔The ability to transmit and receive simultaneously.
✔✔Ethnocentrism - ✔✔When a person considers his or her own cultural values as more
important when interacting with people of a different culture.
✔✔Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - ✔✔The federal agency that has
jurisdiction over interstate and international telephone and telegraph services and
satellite communications, all of which may involve EMS activity.
✔✔MED channels - ✔✔VHF and UHF channels that the Federal Communications
Commission has designated exclusively for EMS use.
✔✔mobile data terminals (MDT) - ✔✔Small computer terminals inside ambulances that
directly receive data from the dispatch center.
✔✔Noise - ✔✔Anything that dampens or obscures the true meaning of a message.
✔✔open-ended questions - ✔✔Questions for which the patient must provide detail to
give an answer.
✔✔Paging - ✔✔The use of a radio signal and a voice or digital message that is
transmitted to pagers ("beepers") or desktop monitor radios.
✔✔patient care report (PCR) - ✔✔The legal document used to record all patient care
activities. This report has direct patient care functions but also administrative and quality
control functions. PCRs are also known as prehospital care reports.
✔✔Proxemics - ✔✔The study of space between people and its effects on
communication.
✔✔Rapport - ✔✔A trusting relationship that you build with your patient.
✔✔Repeater - ✔✔A special base station radio that receives messages and signals on
one frequency and then automatically retransmits them on a second frequency.
✔✔Scanner - ✔✔A radio receiver that searches or "scans" across several frequencies
until the message is completed; the process is then repeated.
