NYS EMT EXAM PRACTICE TEST #1
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The role of the EMS Provider is to do all of the following except:
a) perform primary assessment
b) provide initial resuscitation
c) provide definite diagnosis
d) package patients for transportation - ANS-c) provide definitive diagnosis
In what position should an unconscious overdose patient be transported to a hospital?
a) on their side, with feet elevated
b) on their side
c) seated, with head tilted back and legs elevated
d) face down, with head elevated - ANS-b) on their side
Which of the following pieces of equipment is especially designed and useful for
removing patients from heights or for carrying them over rough terrain or rubble?
a) splint fram stretcher
b) full spine board
c) stokes basket
d) D-ring stretcher - ANS-c) stokes basket
The prehospital care report (PCR) is considered to be:
a) a part of the patient's hospital chart
b) a matter of public record
c) inadmissible in a court of law
d) a research document only - ANS-a) a part of the patient's hospital chart
EMS providers must be certified to perform legally at their level of training. the NYS law
that establishes this level is the:
a) good samaritan law
b) general municipal law
c) medical license law
d) public health law - ANS-d) public health law
If consent is refused by a conscious and mentally competent adult, that person
CANNOT be treated without:
a) consent from the immediate family
b) a court of order
c) consent from the police
d) orders from medical control - ANS-d) orders from medical control
,You are called to a rural home by the mother of a 4 year old girl. Upon arrival, you begin
to treat a dog-bite wound on the girl's arm when the girl's father comes into the house
and tells you to leave her alone. The mother asks you to continue your care of the child.
Faced with the situation above, you should:
a) separate both parents from the child and sort our the consent issues
b) continue care of the girl in her mother's presence and notify police
c) call the children services division of the state for permission to continue care
d) immediately cease care of the child according to her father's wishes - ANS-b)
continue care of the girl in her mother's presence and notify police
If life-threatening conditions are identified during the Secondary Assessment, the EMS
provider should IMMEDIATELY:
a) Repeat the Primary Assessment
b) Take a set of vital signs
c) Begin transportation efforts
d) Provide life-saving interventions - ANS-d) Provide life-saving interventions
If the EMS Provider conducting a patient assessment discovers eye pupils of unequal
size, he/she should suspect:
a) Head injury
b) Cardiac arrest
c) Drug addiction
d) Neurogenic shock - ANS-a) Head injury
In performing a reassessment on a 10-year-old pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle,
the EMS Providers first step is to:
a) Recheck the patients vital signs
b) Repeat the Primary Assessment
c) Check the interventions
d) Repeat a rapid assessment - ANS-b) Repeat the Primary Assessment
The central nervous system consists of the:
a) Brain and peripheral nerves
b) Brain and spinal cord
c) Spinal cord and autonomic functions
d) Spinal cord and peripheral nerves - ANS-b) Brain and spinal cord
Which of the following usually follows a convulsion?
a) Hypotension
b) Hyperexcitability
c) Return to normality
d) Drowsiness - ANS-d) drowsiness
The signs or symptoms of an allergic reaction include all of the following EXCEPT:
, a) Hives
b) Difficulty breathing
c) Low blood pressure
d) High blood pressure - ANS-d) High blood pressure
Which one of the following symptoms is NOT an early signal of anaphylaxis?
a) Itching
b) Swelling of the eyelids
c) Seizures
d) Tightening in the chest - ANS-c) seizures
Autoinjectors for anaphylactic patients contain:
a) Albuterol
b) Nitroglycerin
c) Epinephrine
d) Furosemide (Lasix) - ANS-c) epinepeherine
A sudden-onset altered mental status with a history of diabetes will exhibit which of the
following signs and/or symptoms?
a) Slow pulse and warm and dry skin
b) Rapid pulse and warm dry skin
c) Rapid pulse and cool and clammy skin
d) Slow pulse and cool clammy skin - ANS-c) Rapid pulse and cool and clammy skin
A 28-year-old patient presents supine on the floor, unconscious, unresponsive, and with
snoring respirations at a rate of 6 per minute. Bystanders report that the patient is
diabetic, takes no medications, and may have ingested heroin half an hour prior to the
EMS Providers arrival. After opening the patients airway, the EMS provider should:
a) Administer oxygen via non-rebreather mask at 15 liters/minute and administer syrup
of ipecac
b) Administer oral glucose and administer oxygen via non-rebreather mask at 15
liters/minute
c) Only administer oxygen via non-rebreather mask at 15 liters/minute
d) Insert an airway adjunct and ventilate with 100% oxygen using a bag-valve-mask -
ANS-d) Insert an airway adjunct and ventilate with 100% oxygen using a bag-valve-
mask
A patient with a history of diabetes has an altered mental status due to diabetic
emergency. The EMS provider should:
a) Administer a sugar concentrate, if there is no danger that the patient will aspirate
b) Encourage the patient to take insulin solution orally, if there is no danger that the
patient will aspirate
c) Administer a sugar concentrate by mouth to and unconscious patient only
d) Defer all treatment and transport the patient to the hospital - ANS-a) Administer a
sugar concentrate, if there is no danger that the patient will aspirate
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The role of the EMS Provider is to do all of the following except:
a) perform primary assessment
b) provide initial resuscitation
c) provide definite diagnosis
d) package patients for transportation - ANS-c) provide definitive diagnosis
In what position should an unconscious overdose patient be transported to a hospital?
a) on their side, with feet elevated
b) on their side
c) seated, with head tilted back and legs elevated
d) face down, with head elevated - ANS-b) on their side
Which of the following pieces of equipment is especially designed and useful for
removing patients from heights or for carrying them over rough terrain or rubble?
a) splint fram stretcher
b) full spine board
c) stokes basket
d) D-ring stretcher - ANS-c) stokes basket
The prehospital care report (PCR) is considered to be:
a) a part of the patient's hospital chart
b) a matter of public record
c) inadmissible in a court of law
d) a research document only - ANS-a) a part of the patient's hospital chart
EMS providers must be certified to perform legally at their level of training. the NYS law
that establishes this level is the:
a) good samaritan law
b) general municipal law
c) medical license law
d) public health law - ANS-d) public health law
If consent is refused by a conscious and mentally competent adult, that person
CANNOT be treated without:
a) consent from the immediate family
b) a court of order
c) consent from the police
d) orders from medical control - ANS-d) orders from medical control
,You are called to a rural home by the mother of a 4 year old girl. Upon arrival, you begin
to treat a dog-bite wound on the girl's arm when the girl's father comes into the house
and tells you to leave her alone. The mother asks you to continue your care of the child.
Faced with the situation above, you should:
a) separate both parents from the child and sort our the consent issues
b) continue care of the girl in her mother's presence and notify police
c) call the children services division of the state for permission to continue care
d) immediately cease care of the child according to her father's wishes - ANS-b)
continue care of the girl in her mother's presence and notify police
If life-threatening conditions are identified during the Secondary Assessment, the EMS
provider should IMMEDIATELY:
a) Repeat the Primary Assessment
b) Take a set of vital signs
c) Begin transportation efforts
d) Provide life-saving interventions - ANS-d) Provide life-saving interventions
If the EMS Provider conducting a patient assessment discovers eye pupils of unequal
size, he/she should suspect:
a) Head injury
b) Cardiac arrest
c) Drug addiction
d) Neurogenic shock - ANS-a) Head injury
In performing a reassessment on a 10-year-old pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle,
the EMS Providers first step is to:
a) Recheck the patients vital signs
b) Repeat the Primary Assessment
c) Check the interventions
d) Repeat a rapid assessment - ANS-b) Repeat the Primary Assessment
The central nervous system consists of the:
a) Brain and peripheral nerves
b) Brain and spinal cord
c) Spinal cord and autonomic functions
d) Spinal cord and peripheral nerves - ANS-b) Brain and spinal cord
Which of the following usually follows a convulsion?
a) Hypotension
b) Hyperexcitability
c) Return to normality
d) Drowsiness - ANS-d) drowsiness
The signs or symptoms of an allergic reaction include all of the following EXCEPT:
, a) Hives
b) Difficulty breathing
c) Low blood pressure
d) High blood pressure - ANS-d) High blood pressure
Which one of the following symptoms is NOT an early signal of anaphylaxis?
a) Itching
b) Swelling of the eyelids
c) Seizures
d) Tightening in the chest - ANS-c) seizures
Autoinjectors for anaphylactic patients contain:
a) Albuterol
b) Nitroglycerin
c) Epinephrine
d) Furosemide (Lasix) - ANS-c) epinepeherine
A sudden-onset altered mental status with a history of diabetes will exhibit which of the
following signs and/or symptoms?
a) Slow pulse and warm and dry skin
b) Rapid pulse and warm dry skin
c) Rapid pulse and cool and clammy skin
d) Slow pulse and cool clammy skin - ANS-c) Rapid pulse and cool and clammy skin
A 28-year-old patient presents supine on the floor, unconscious, unresponsive, and with
snoring respirations at a rate of 6 per minute. Bystanders report that the patient is
diabetic, takes no medications, and may have ingested heroin half an hour prior to the
EMS Providers arrival. After opening the patients airway, the EMS provider should:
a) Administer oxygen via non-rebreather mask at 15 liters/minute and administer syrup
of ipecac
b) Administer oral glucose and administer oxygen via non-rebreather mask at 15
liters/minute
c) Only administer oxygen via non-rebreather mask at 15 liters/minute
d) Insert an airway adjunct and ventilate with 100% oxygen using a bag-valve-mask -
ANS-d) Insert an airway adjunct and ventilate with 100% oxygen using a bag-valve-
mask
A patient with a history of diabetes has an altered mental status due to diabetic
emergency. The EMS provider should:
a) Administer a sugar concentrate, if there is no danger that the patient will aspirate
b) Encourage the patient to take insulin solution orally, if there is no danger that the
patient will aspirate
c) Administer a sugar concentrate by mouth to and unconscious patient only
d) Defer all treatment and transport the patient to the hospital - ANS-a) Administer a
sugar concentrate, if there is no danger that the patient will aspirate
