EMS1055 Midterm Exam Study Guide
2024/2025 Exam Questions and Answers
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Know the medical legal responsibilities of an EMR, such as Duty to Act and
Standard of Care. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-An EMR must be dispatched to the
scene of an accident or illness, and they have a duty to act
-You must proceed promptly to the scene and render emergency medical
care within the limits of your training and available equipment
-Standard of Care: the way you must act or behave
-Duty to Act: Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an
emergency
Know the levels of patient consent - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Expressed (verbal or
nonverbal) consent: the patient lets you know that they will accept
treatment; patient must be of legal age and able to make a rational decision
-Implied consent: the patient does not specifically refuse emergency care.
Do not hesitate to treat an unconscious patient
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,-Consent for minors: Under the law, minors are not considered capable of
speaking for themselves. Emergency treatment must wait until a patient or
legal guardian consent to the treatment. If permission cannot be quickly
obtained, do not hesitate to give appropriate medical care
-Consent for mentally ill: If the person appears to be a threat to self or
others, place this person under medical care. Know your state's legal
mechanisms for handling these patients. Do not hesitate to involve law
enforcement agencies.
Know the pulse points and what blood pressure is required for them to be
palpated - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Carotid 60mm Hg - felt along the large carotid
artery on either side of the neck
-Femoral 70mm Hg - felt on either side of the groin; femoral artery
-Radial 80mm Hg - felt at the wrist
-Pedal 90 mm Hg - obtained on the top of the foot
Know how to assess an AVPU score - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A - alert - looking at
you
V - vocal - "Are you okay?"
P - pain (sternal rub)
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, U - unresponsive - unconscious
Know how to open an airway and when you use each method - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔-head tilt-chin lift maneuver (no suspected C-spine injury)
-jaw thrust maneuver (C-spine injury)
-clear possible obstructions
-airway adjuncts: OPA, NPA, King Tube, Intubation
Know how to measure an OPA and when to use it - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-used
in patients with no gag reflex
-edge of the mouth to the angle of the jaw
-insert with the tip pointing to the top of the head then rotate 180 degrees
until in position
Know how to measure an NPA (nasal trumpet) and when to use it -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔-can use on patient with a gag reflex
-right nare to tip of earlobe
-use twisting motion as you insert
Know what FiO2 means and how it applies to oxygen devices - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔-Fraction of inspired oxygen
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2024/2025 Exam Questions and Answers
| A+ Score Assured
Know the medical legal responsibilities of an EMR, such as Duty to Act and
Standard of Care. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-An EMR must be dispatched to the
scene of an accident or illness, and they have a duty to act
-You must proceed promptly to the scene and render emergency medical
care within the limits of your training and available equipment
-Standard of Care: the way you must act or behave
-Duty to Act: Your legal responsibility to do something in the case of an
emergency
Know the levels of patient consent - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Expressed (verbal or
nonverbal) consent: the patient lets you know that they will accept
treatment; patient must be of legal age and able to make a rational decision
-Implied consent: the patient does not specifically refuse emergency care.
Do not hesitate to treat an unconscious patient
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,-Consent for minors: Under the law, minors are not considered capable of
speaking for themselves. Emergency treatment must wait until a patient or
legal guardian consent to the treatment. If permission cannot be quickly
obtained, do not hesitate to give appropriate medical care
-Consent for mentally ill: If the person appears to be a threat to self or
others, place this person under medical care. Know your state's legal
mechanisms for handling these patients. Do not hesitate to involve law
enforcement agencies.
Know the pulse points and what blood pressure is required for them to be
palpated - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Carotid 60mm Hg - felt along the large carotid
artery on either side of the neck
-Femoral 70mm Hg - felt on either side of the groin; femoral artery
-Radial 80mm Hg - felt at the wrist
-Pedal 90 mm Hg - obtained on the top of the foot
Know how to assess an AVPU score - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A - alert - looking at
you
V - vocal - "Are you okay?"
P - pain (sternal rub)
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, U - unresponsive - unconscious
Know how to open an airway and when you use each method - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔-head tilt-chin lift maneuver (no suspected C-spine injury)
-jaw thrust maneuver (C-spine injury)
-clear possible obstructions
-airway adjuncts: OPA, NPA, King Tube, Intubation
Know how to measure an OPA and when to use it - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-used
in patients with no gag reflex
-edge of the mouth to the angle of the jaw
-insert with the tip pointing to the top of the head then rotate 180 degrees
until in position
Know how to measure an NPA (nasal trumpet) and when to use it -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔-can use on patient with a gag reflex
-right nare to tip of earlobe
-use twisting motion as you insert
Know what FiO2 means and how it applies to oxygen devices - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔-Fraction of inspired oxygen
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