EMT-B BASIC STUDY GUIDE FINAL EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses? - Accurate answers DOT
Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification. - Accurate answers National
Registery
Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field. - Accurate answers
Medical Control
Recognition, patient assesment, continued assesment and stabilization in hospital, definitive care. -
Accurate answers Continuum of Care
Types of stress include: - Accurate answers Cumulative, post-traumatic stress reaction, eustruss,
acute stress, and chronic stress
S/S of stress include: - Accurate answers Increased respiratory rate, heart rate, and B/P,
vasodilation, dialted pupils, tensed muscles, increased glucose levels, perspiration, deacreased blood
flow to gastrointestinal tract, irritability, inability to concentrate, difficult or increased sleeping, anxiety,
guilt, loss of appetite, decreased sexual activity, loss of interest in work, alcholism, drug use.
Management of stress includes: - Accurate answers Eliminate stressors, change partners, get rid of
negative personalities, change work hours, reduce overtime, change your attitude, don't obsess over
what you can't change, excercise, diet.
Fight or Flight response: - Accurate answers During an acute stress response, the autonomic
nervous system is activated and the body increases level of cotricol, adrenilen, and other hormones that
produce an increased heart rate, quick breathing, and higher BP. Blood is shunted from extremities to
the big muscles to "fight or flight".
Routes of transmission include: - Accurate answers Direct - touch or droplets
Indirect - spread by inanimate objects
Mechanical (vector born) - by insects
Biological - Transmissions by which the germs live or grow
Airborne - sneezes, coughs
Dust - may carry pores, may remain for long periods.
Control and prevention of contamination include? - Accurate answers Hand washing, gloves, eye
protection, gowns, masks, mask, respirators, barrier devices, and immunizations.
Duty to Act is? - Accurate answers An obligation to provide care.
Duties include: - Accurate answers Duty to:
-Respond
-Obey laws and regulations
, -Operate an emergerncy vehicle reasonably and prudently
-Provide care and transportation to expected standard
-Provide care and transport consistent with the scope of practice and local medicine protocol
-Continue and transport through to its appropriate conclusion
The scope of practice is? - Accurate answers Descriptionof what assessment and treatment skills
and EMT may legally perform.
Implied consent is? - Accurate answers Consent in which a patient is unable to give consent and is
provided treatment under the implication they would want treament.
Informed consent is? - Accurate answers Permission for treatment given by a patient after the
potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained.
Ethics - Accurate answers The discipline dealing with what is good and bad.
Standard of care is? - Accurate answers The degree of medical care and skill that is expected of a
resonably competent EMT acting in the same or similar circumstances.
Confidentiality is? - Accurate answers Communication between you and the patient is considered
confindential and can only be released to other medical staff or with a court order.
Definite signs of death include: - Accurate answers Obvious mortal damage, dependent lividity,
rigor mortis, putrefaction.
Obvious mortal damage: - Accurate answers Injuries such as decapitation or non survivable injury.
Dependent lividity - Accurate answers Blood settling to the lowest part of the body. "Pooling"
Rigor mortis - Accurate answers Stiffening of body muscles caused by chemical changes in the
body. Develops in the face and jaw, gradually extending downward. Onset is affected by body's ability to
lose temp (thin=fast, fat body=slow). Occurs between 2-12 hours after death
putrefaction - Accurate answers Decomposition of body tissue. Occurs between 20-96 hours.
Anterioir - Accurate answers Front side of body
Posterior - Accurate answers back of the body
Midline - Accurate answers Imaginary line drawn vertically from middle of the forehead through
the umbilicus floor
Midclavicular - Accurate answers Referring to the middle of the clavicle parallel to the midline
Midaxillary - Accurate answers Referring to middle of armpit parallel to the midline
Superior - Accurate answers Towards the head of the body
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses? - Accurate answers DOT
Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification. - Accurate answers National
Registery
Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field. - Accurate answers
Medical Control
Recognition, patient assesment, continued assesment and stabilization in hospital, definitive care. -
Accurate answers Continuum of Care
Types of stress include: - Accurate answers Cumulative, post-traumatic stress reaction, eustruss,
acute stress, and chronic stress
S/S of stress include: - Accurate answers Increased respiratory rate, heart rate, and B/P,
vasodilation, dialted pupils, tensed muscles, increased glucose levels, perspiration, deacreased blood
flow to gastrointestinal tract, irritability, inability to concentrate, difficult or increased sleeping, anxiety,
guilt, loss of appetite, decreased sexual activity, loss of interest in work, alcholism, drug use.
Management of stress includes: - Accurate answers Eliminate stressors, change partners, get rid of
negative personalities, change work hours, reduce overtime, change your attitude, don't obsess over
what you can't change, excercise, diet.
Fight or Flight response: - Accurate answers During an acute stress response, the autonomic
nervous system is activated and the body increases level of cotricol, adrenilen, and other hormones that
produce an increased heart rate, quick breathing, and higher BP. Blood is shunted from extremities to
the big muscles to "fight or flight".
Routes of transmission include: - Accurate answers Direct - touch or droplets
Indirect - spread by inanimate objects
Mechanical (vector born) - by insects
Biological - Transmissions by which the germs live or grow
Airborne - sneezes, coughs
Dust - may carry pores, may remain for long periods.
Control and prevention of contamination include? - Accurate answers Hand washing, gloves, eye
protection, gowns, masks, mask, respirators, barrier devices, and immunizations.
Duty to Act is? - Accurate answers An obligation to provide care.
Duties include: - Accurate answers Duty to:
-Respond
-Obey laws and regulations
, -Operate an emergerncy vehicle reasonably and prudently
-Provide care and transportation to expected standard
-Provide care and transport consistent with the scope of practice and local medicine protocol
-Continue and transport through to its appropriate conclusion
The scope of practice is? - Accurate answers Descriptionof what assessment and treatment skills
and EMT may legally perform.
Implied consent is? - Accurate answers Consent in which a patient is unable to give consent and is
provided treatment under the implication they would want treament.
Informed consent is? - Accurate answers Permission for treatment given by a patient after the
potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained.
Ethics - Accurate answers The discipline dealing with what is good and bad.
Standard of care is? - Accurate answers The degree of medical care and skill that is expected of a
resonably competent EMT acting in the same or similar circumstances.
Confidentiality is? - Accurate answers Communication between you and the patient is considered
confindential and can only be released to other medical staff or with a court order.
Definite signs of death include: - Accurate answers Obvious mortal damage, dependent lividity,
rigor mortis, putrefaction.
Obvious mortal damage: - Accurate answers Injuries such as decapitation or non survivable injury.
Dependent lividity - Accurate answers Blood settling to the lowest part of the body. "Pooling"
Rigor mortis - Accurate answers Stiffening of body muscles caused by chemical changes in the
body. Develops in the face and jaw, gradually extending downward. Onset is affected by body's ability to
lose temp (thin=fast, fat body=slow). Occurs between 2-12 hours after death
putrefaction - Accurate answers Decomposition of body tissue. Occurs between 20-96 hours.
Anterioir - Accurate answers Front side of body
Posterior - Accurate answers back of the body
Midline - Accurate answers Imaginary line drawn vertically from middle of the forehead through
the umbilicus floor
Midclavicular - Accurate answers Referring to the middle of the clavicle parallel to the midline
Midaxillary - Accurate answers Referring to middle of armpit parallel to the midline
Superior - Accurate answers Towards the head of the body
