EMS UF Exam #1 Questions with correct answers
Hypoglcemia - ✔✔Blood glucose falling below 60 mg/dl which leads to insulin
shock. IF able to swallow and conscious give them glucose pill or juice with sugar
added.
EMS Systems - ✔✔First Responder
EMR
EMT
Paramedic = in charge of giving drugs, advanced procedures, and electricity when
treating patients.
RN
PA
Physician
Alied Health
Dispatch - ✔✔9/11 will get call and will decide who will be aiding the caller
First Responders - ✔✔Firefighters or law enforcement
Most firefighters are at least an EMT many are paramedics as well.
BLS - ✔✔Basic Life Support, EMS or EMT
ALS - ✔✔Advanced life support, paramedic
EMS - ✔✔can do any skill an EMT can do, EMT is just a higher certification
, PPE - ✔✔Personal Protective Equipment
- Wash your hands before and after contact no matter what
- Equipment like gowns, gloves, eye equipment, or face protection
Driving EMS - ✔✔Only can go 10mph over in emergency, must follow speed limit
in school zones, and motorists should pullover where safe to make room for EMS.
Park ambulance so that it protects scene, make sure lights are working, and when
you attempt to exit it is safe.
Evaluate the scene - ✔✔Find all hazards present in a scene and evaluate them to
decide which need priority and order to handle them all.
Scene Safety - ✔✔Crimes may have occurred too cause the emergency so be
mindful of evidence and not destroying it, people or crowds can cause more
problems, watch out for hazardous materials, unstable environments, animals
that aren't trained,
Duty to Act - ✔✔If you are employed by an agency as an EMR and you are
dispatched to the scene of an accident or illness, you have a duty to act. You must
proceed promptly and render medical care.
Standard of Care - ✔✔Manner in which you must act or behave, must treat to the
best of your ability, and provide care that is reasonable, a person with similar
training would provide similar to same aid.
Hypoglcemia - ✔✔Blood glucose falling below 60 mg/dl which leads to insulin
shock. IF able to swallow and conscious give them glucose pill or juice with sugar
added.
EMS Systems - ✔✔First Responder
EMR
EMT
Paramedic = in charge of giving drugs, advanced procedures, and electricity when
treating patients.
RN
PA
Physician
Alied Health
Dispatch - ✔✔9/11 will get call and will decide who will be aiding the caller
First Responders - ✔✔Firefighters or law enforcement
Most firefighters are at least an EMT many are paramedics as well.
BLS - ✔✔Basic Life Support, EMS or EMT
ALS - ✔✔Advanced life support, paramedic
EMS - ✔✔can do any skill an EMT can do, EMT is just a higher certification
, PPE - ✔✔Personal Protective Equipment
- Wash your hands before and after contact no matter what
- Equipment like gowns, gloves, eye equipment, or face protection
Driving EMS - ✔✔Only can go 10mph over in emergency, must follow speed limit
in school zones, and motorists should pullover where safe to make room for EMS.
Park ambulance so that it protects scene, make sure lights are working, and when
you attempt to exit it is safe.
Evaluate the scene - ✔✔Find all hazards present in a scene and evaluate them to
decide which need priority and order to handle them all.
Scene Safety - ✔✔Crimes may have occurred too cause the emergency so be
mindful of evidence and not destroying it, people or crowds can cause more
problems, watch out for hazardous materials, unstable environments, animals
that aren't trained,
Duty to Act - ✔✔If you are employed by an agency as an EMR and you are
dispatched to the scene of an accident or illness, you have a duty to act. You must
proceed promptly and render medical care.
Standard of Care - ✔✔Manner in which you must act or behave, must treat to the
best of your ability, and provide care that is reasonable, a person with similar
training would provide similar to same aid.
