FISDAP EMT Operations Exam |Questions with
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DNR - ✔️✔️You should first verify the validity of a DNR before withholding treatment. It is better to start
treatments early and discontinue treatments when a valid DNR has been presented. Follow local
protocol.
OFF-line (indirect) - ✔️✔️Standing orders, training, supervision
Online (direct) - ✔️✔️Physician directions given over the phone or radio.
Gloves - ✔️✔️Wear gloves if there is any possibility for exposure to blood or body fluids.
b. Vinyl, nitrile, and latex gloves are effective protection. Wear heavy-duty gloves when cleaning the
ambulance.
c. Change gloves between patients.
d.Removing gloves requires a special technique to avoid contaminating yourself with the materials on
the outside of the gloves
Eye protection/face shields - ✔️✔️Eye protection protects from blood splatters.
b. Prescription glasses are not adequate.
c. Goggles or face shields are best.
Gowns - ✔️✔️Provide protection from extensive blood splatter.
b. May be worn in situation such as aerosol-generating procedures, field delivery of a baby, or major
trauma.
Mask - ✔️✔️Wear a standard surgical mask for blood or body fluid spatter.
b. Place a surgical mask on a patient and a particulate air respirator, such as an N95 on yourself, if you
suspect the patient has an airborne- or droplet-spread disease such as tuberculosis, influenza, or COVID-
19.
, Hazardous Materials - ✔️✔️General guidelines:
i. Do not enter the scene if there is evidence of hazardous materials.
ii. Remain upwind and uphill of the scene.
iii. Keep your distance
iv. Quickly contact dispatch and request additional resources.
v.Do not enter the scene until instructed by trained hazardous materials responders
Electricity - ✔️✔️Dealing with downed power lines is beyond the scope of EMT training.
b. Mark off a danger zone around the downed lines using utility poles as landmarks. The safety zone is
one span of the power pole's distance.
c. Do not approach downed wire or touch anything with which downed wires are in contact until
qualified personnel have determined no risk is present.
d. Lightning is a threat.
i. A direct hit
ii. Ground current
e. A repeat strike in the same area can occur.
f. Avoid high ground to minimize risk of a direct lightning strike.
g. To avoid being injured by ground current, stay away from drainage ditches, moist areas, small
depressions, and wet ropes.
h. Make yourself the smallest target possible and drop all equipment.
Extrication gear - ✔️✔️Turnout gear (High visibility reflective safety vest, put gloves on first to protect
from blood and put leather gloves on second to protect from glass.) Goggles, helmet, hearing
protection.
a. Protects from heat, fire, sparks, and flashover
b. Also called bunker gear
involuntary consent - ✔️✔️Applies to patients who are:
a. Mentally ill
b. In a behavioral (psychological) crisis
100% Correct Answers
DNR - ✔️✔️You should first verify the validity of a DNR before withholding treatment. It is better to start
treatments early and discontinue treatments when a valid DNR has been presented. Follow local
protocol.
OFF-line (indirect) - ✔️✔️Standing orders, training, supervision
Online (direct) - ✔️✔️Physician directions given over the phone or radio.
Gloves - ✔️✔️Wear gloves if there is any possibility for exposure to blood or body fluids.
b. Vinyl, nitrile, and latex gloves are effective protection. Wear heavy-duty gloves when cleaning the
ambulance.
c. Change gloves between patients.
d.Removing gloves requires a special technique to avoid contaminating yourself with the materials on
the outside of the gloves
Eye protection/face shields - ✔️✔️Eye protection protects from blood splatters.
b. Prescription glasses are not adequate.
c. Goggles or face shields are best.
Gowns - ✔️✔️Provide protection from extensive blood splatter.
b. May be worn in situation such as aerosol-generating procedures, field delivery of a baby, or major
trauma.
Mask - ✔️✔️Wear a standard surgical mask for blood or body fluid spatter.
b. Place a surgical mask on a patient and a particulate air respirator, such as an N95 on yourself, if you
suspect the patient has an airborne- or droplet-spread disease such as tuberculosis, influenza, or COVID-
19.
, Hazardous Materials - ✔️✔️General guidelines:
i. Do not enter the scene if there is evidence of hazardous materials.
ii. Remain upwind and uphill of the scene.
iii. Keep your distance
iv. Quickly contact dispatch and request additional resources.
v.Do not enter the scene until instructed by trained hazardous materials responders
Electricity - ✔️✔️Dealing with downed power lines is beyond the scope of EMT training.
b. Mark off a danger zone around the downed lines using utility poles as landmarks. The safety zone is
one span of the power pole's distance.
c. Do not approach downed wire or touch anything with which downed wires are in contact until
qualified personnel have determined no risk is present.
d. Lightning is a threat.
i. A direct hit
ii. Ground current
e. A repeat strike in the same area can occur.
f. Avoid high ground to minimize risk of a direct lightning strike.
g. To avoid being injured by ground current, stay away from drainage ditches, moist areas, small
depressions, and wet ropes.
h. Make yourself the smallest target possible and drop all equipment.
Extrication gear - ✔️✔️Turnout gear (High visibility reflective safety vest, put gloves on first to protect
from blood and put leather gloves on second to protect from glass.) Goggles, helmet, hearing
protection.
a. Protects from heat, fire, sparks, and flashover
b. Also called bunker gear
involuntary consent - ✔️✔️Applies to patients who are:
a. Mentally ill
b. In a behavioral (psychological) crisis
