CTE TEST PREP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
rules and responsibilities - Answers- asses the pt, provide emergency care, safely lift
and move the pt, serve as the pts advocate, maintain medical and legal standards
role of evidence based research in ems - Answers- focuses on research to provide
clear evidence that certain procedures medications and equipment improve the pts
outcome
quality assurance - Answers- to ensure that the public receives the highest quality of
prehospital care the goals of quality improvement are to identify those aspects of the
system that can be improved and to implement plans and programs that will remedy any
short comings
standard precautions - Answers- strict infection control measures based on the
presumption that all blood and body fluids are infectious
base station - Answers- serves as a dispatch and coordination area and ideally is in
contact with all other elements of the system
mobile radios - Answers- vehicle-mounted devices used to communicate within the
EMS system
repeaters - Answers- devices that receive transmissions from relatively low-powered
source such as a mobile or portable radio and rebroadcast them at another frequency
and a higher power
encoder - Answers- breaks down sound waves into unique digital codes
decoder - Answers- recognizes and responds to only those codes
mobile data terminal - Answers- mounted in the cab of an ambulance
communicating with medical direction - Answers- units identification and level of
service, pt's age and sex, pt's c/c, brief pertinent history of the present illness including
scene assessment and MOI, major past illnesses, pt's mental status, pt's baseline vitals,
pertinent findings of your physical examination of the pt, description of the emergency
medical care you have given to the pt, pt's response to the emergency care, pt's current
condition, request for further actions/interventions, est. time of arrival
SBAR - Answers- situation, background, assessment, recommendation
radio terms - Answers- break, clear, come in, copy, eta, go ahead, landline, over,
repeat/say again, spell out, 10-4, standby
rules and responsibilities - Answers- asses the pt, provide emergency care, safely lift
and move the pt, serve as the pts advocate, maintain medical and legal standards
role of evidence based research in ems - Answers- focuses on research to provide
clear evidence that certain procedures medications and equipment improve the pts
outcome
quality assurance - Answers- to ensure that the public receives the highest quality of
prehospital care the goals of quality improvement are to identify those aspects of the
system that can be improved and to implement plans and programs that will remedy any
short comings
standard precautions - Answers- strict infection control measures based on the
presumption that all blood and body fluids are infectious
base station - Answers- serves as a dispatch and coordination area and ideally is in
contact with all other elements of the system
mobile radios - Answers- vehicle-mounted devices used to communicate within the
EMS system
repeaters - Answers- devices that receive transmissions from relatively low-powered
source such as a mobile or portable radio and rebroadcast them at another frequency
and a higher power
encoder - Answers- breaks down sound waves into unique digital codes
decoder - Answers- recognizes and responds to only those codes
mobile data terminal - Answers- mounted in the cab of an ambulance
communicating with medical direction - Answers- units identification and level of
service, pt's age and sex, pt's c/c, brief pertinent history of the present illness including
scene assessment and MOI, major past illnesses, pt's mental status, pt's baseline vitals,
pertinent findings of your physical examination of the pt, description of the emergency
medical care you have given to the pt, pt's response to the emergency care, pt's current
condition, request for further actions/interventions, est. time of arrival
SBAR - Answers- situation, background, assessment, recommendation
radio terms - Answers- break, clear, come in, copy, eta, go ahead, landline, over,
repeat/say again, spell out, 10-4, standby
