EMT Mod Exam 1 Chapters 1-7 | with complete solution

EMT Mod Exam 1 Chapters 1-7 | with complete solution No more then three class session may be missed for any reason. Exceeding three absences is grounds for withdrawal of students - True Students must recieve a 75 or higher to pass mod exams - True Student scoring below 80 accumulative and or an f on the final exam must take the entire course over to be consider for the state or national exam - True A student must maintain an identified email account to communicate with the lead instructor - True Student must pass the competency testing to continue in the course - True None of class sessions are mandatory attendance - False Students must recieve an accumulative grade of 80 or higher to take the state or national registry - True Each student will need to purchase their own stethoscope and blue polo shirts - True Quizzes can be made up after excused absences - True As defined by the national ems scope of practice model the four levels of ems practioner include - Emergency medical techican Which one of the following statement shows that emt has good understanding of her role and responsibility related to being an emt - My safety comes first and then my patients safety You have been asked to sit on your service quality improvement committe. As knowledge emt you recognize that you will be involved in projects that serve to - Examine ways in which the delivery or emergency care can be improved As an emt which requirement is needed so that you can provide routine and emergency medical care to the sick and injured - Medical director If a patient with chest pain takes a daily aspirin, your medical director wants the emt to contact an emergency department phyisican first before administering additional aspirin. The act of contact the emergency department phyisican for permission to administer additional aspirin - Online medical direction The county dispatch center where you work employ emergency medical dispatch as call takers. This enables the dispatch center - Provide medical instruction to the caller prior to the arrival of ems The practice of protecting yourself from disease tranmission through exposure to blood and other body fluid is referred to as - Standard precaution Which one of the following is the single best techique that the emt can use to prevent the spread of infection - Washing hands You have been told that you must get your annual purified protein derivative test for TB. As a knowledge emt you recognize that the PPD will - Determine if you have been exposed to TB Organism that cause diseases are correctly called - Pathogens A patient with terminal diease is unresponsive not breathing and without a pulse. The family states that the patient has do not resuscitate order signed by her medical doctor but they can't find it. The emt. - Start cardiopulmonary resusicatitation In a community park a 10 year old boy has fallen from the top slide. His right wrist deformed and he is in pain. He states that he lives with his mother and she is working. He does not know her work number. The emt best action would be to - Treat the patient under the guidelines of implied consent A patient who is extremely dizzy and vomitting declines your care and will not sign refusal form. Your best action would be - Document that the patient refuses to sign and leave For negligence to be proven which of the following must be present - Duty to act injury proximate cause A homeless patient is sick and is refusing transport. Since the temperature tonight will be near zero the emt picks u the patient and puts him on the cot. The patient continues to refuse despite the emt explanation that it will be warm in the hosiptal and he will be fed. The patient is transport. Which one of the following could emt be charged with - False imprisonment A local politician has been involved in a motor vehicle collision. Witness states that they saw the man leave a bar. Then just two miles down the road he struck a utitly pole head on. On scene and throughout transport the patient is confused and combative. When leaving the hosiptal a reporter asks you what happened and you state that it looks as though the political may be drunk but you are not sure. Your statement is printed in the newspaper. Later it is determine that the man was not drunk, rather he was a diabetic and his blood sugar was low. - Slander Which one of the following describes the emt most objective finding - Blood pressure 114/68 mmhg You have placed a 67 year old female patient on low concentration oxygen with a nasal cannula. Under what section of the Prehosiptal care report would you document this information - Treatment When asked an alert and oriented 44 year old male tells you that he called 911 because my chest is hurting. The man is also sweating and feels as though he is going to vomit. He has a history of high blood pressure and states that this pain feels just like my heart attack two years ago. His pulse is 88 beats per minute respiration are 18 per minute and blood pressure is 156:92 mm