CCEMSA MICN QUESTION AND
ANSWERS RATED A+ 2025
Prehospital advanced life support may only be provided under the supervision
of (20) - correct answers An authorized base hospital physician
Definition of medical control (20) - correct answers Appropriate physician
involvement in all levels of EMS planning, administration, and ongoing
evaluation of the EMS system
Medical Director, EMS agency responsibility (20) - correct answers Primarily
responsible for the medical control of the local EMS system. Such medical
control is to be maintained:
-prospectively (written policies)
-Immediately (direct voice, communications, written orders, etc.)
-retrospectively (auditing and continuing education)
Assistant, medical Director, EMS division responsibility (20) - correct answers
Training, quality improvement, and policy development
Medical control committee (20) - correct answers Advise the medical Director
on issues of medical control
Consists of face hospital medical Director from each of the base hospitals,
What's the difference between online and off-line medical control? - correct
answers Online involves specific interaction with the case is it occurs (during)
off-line involves the planning of the later evaluation of that case (not during)
,Define the following types of medical control:
Prospective
Immediate
Retrospective - correct answers Prospective-written medical policy and
procedures to provide standards for patient care (things in the medical
Director does before care)
Immediate - verbal communication, written orders (things medical Director
does during care)
Retrospectively- continuing education, audit (things are medical Director does
after care)
Medical Director, EMS agency role - correct answers Responsible for the
medical control of the local EMS system, including certification of personnel.
Control is maintained prospectively, immediately, retrospectively
Assistant medical Director role - correct answers Responsible for aiding EMS
medical Director not limited to Training, quality improvement, and policy
development
Medical control committee role - correct answers Advise the medical Director
on issues of medical control
Base hospital EMS medical Director role - correct answers Responsible for
the medical direction of prehospital care, consistent with minimal adopted
standards by the state EMS authority
Base hospital physicians role - correct answers Online physicians responsible
for the medical control of prehospital care, given on a case by case basis
, MICN role - correct answers Online medical direction of paramedics in the
field
Prehospital liaison nurse (PLN) role - correct answers Assist base hospital
EMS medical Director with base hospital medical control responsibilities
Trauma audit committee role - correct answers Advisory committee to the
health services agency on issues related to trauma care
What are standards of care for the EMS system? - correct answers
Responsibility of the EMS medical Director and medical control committee via
treatment protocols and other policies.
Standards include advanced life support units, expected response times, unit
staffing
Who is ultimately responsible for the standards of care? - correct answers
EMS medical Director and medical control committee
What is the purpose of regional medical control? - correct answers To advise
the EMS medical Director, regarding the establishment of medical control,
policies and procedures, including EMS patient treatment protocols
What is the role of the EMT? What procedures can they do? - correct answers
Evaluate the ill and injured
Render BLS
Obtain vital signs (including cap refill, LOC, Pupils)
CPR
oxygen
Breathing adjuncts
ANSWERS RATED A+ 2025
Prehospital advanced life support may only be provided under the supervision
of (20) - correct answers An authorized base hospital physician
Definition of medical control (20) - correct answers Appropriate physician
involvement in all levels of EMS planning, administration, and ongoing
evaluation of the EMS system
Medical Director, EMS agency responsibility (20) - correct answers Primarily
responsible for the medical control of the local EMS system. Such medical
control is to be maintained:
-prospectively (written policies)
-Immediately (direct voice, communications, written orders, etc.)
-retrospectively (auditing and continuing education)
Assistant, medical Director, EMS division responsibility (20) - correct answers
Training, quality improvement, and policy development
Medical control committee (20) - correct answers Advise the medical Director
on issues of medical control
Consists of face hospital medical Director from each of the base hospitals,
What's the difference between online and off-line medical control? - correct
answers Online involves specific interaction with the case is it occurs (during)
off-line involves the planning of the later evaluation of that case (not during)
,Define the following types of medical control:
Prospective
Immediate
Retrospective - correct answers Prospective-written medical policy and
procedures to provide standards for patient care (things in the medical
Director does before care)
Immediate - verbal communication, written orders (things medical Director
does during care)
Retrospectively- continuing education, audit (things are medical Director does
after care)
Medical Director, EMS agency role - correct answers Responsible for the
medical control of the local EMS system, including certification of personnel.
Control is maintained prospectively, immediately, retrospectively
Assistant medical Director role - correct answers Responsible for aiding EMS
medical Director not limited to Training, quality improvement, and policy
development
Medical control committee role - correct answers Advise the medical Director
on issues of medical control
Base hospital EMS medical Director role - correct answers Responsible for
the medical direction of prehospital care, consistent with minimal adopted
standards by the state EMS authority
Base hospital physicians role - correct answers Online physicians responsible
for the medical control of prehospital care, given on a case by case basis
, MICN role - correct answers Online medical direction of paramedics in the
field
Prehospital liaison nurse (PLN) role - correct answers Assist base hospital
EMS medical Director with base hospital medical control responsibilities
Trauma audit committee role - correct answers Advisory committee to the
health services agency on issues related to trauma care
What are standards of care for the EMS system? - correct answers
Responsibility of the EMS medical Director and medical control committee via
treatment protocols and other policies.
Standards include advanced life support units, expected response times, unit
staffing
Who is ultimately responsible for the standards of care? - correct answers
EMS medical Director and medical control committee
What is the purpose of regional medical control? - correct answers To advise
the EMS medical Director, regarding the establishment of medical control,
policies and procedures, including EMS patient treatment protocols
What is the role of the EMT? What procedures can they do? - correct answers
Evaluate the ill and injured
Render BLS
Obtain vital signs (including cap refill, LOC, Pupils)
CPR
oxygen
Breathing adjuncts
