EMR Final Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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Emergency Medical Responders are trained to
provide ______. - -Basic emergency care
When is it ok to move a seriously injured patient?
- -When a building is on fire, from a vehicle
How is malaria transmitted? - -Through that is smoking, and when the patient is blocking
vector-borne transmission (mosquitos) access to other patients.
Engineering controls include ______. - - What is the best way to move a patient who has
Biohazard containers a suspected neck or spinal injury? - -
Blanket Drag
The best way to care for someone who got body
fluids splashed in their eyes is to _____. - - What are some examples of mechanisms of
Flush the eyes with water or saline for 20 injury (MOI)? - -Explosions, penetrating
minutes. trauma, blunt force.
Which level of EMS provider is the most _________ materials may have strange odors
advanced? - -Paramedic and/or clouds of gas. - -Hazardous
These laws protect you when you act in good When arriving on the scene, this is your number
faith and within your scope of practice. - - one priority. - -Scene safety
Good Samaritan Laws
What allows for the maximum hand stability and
A person is competent when they ______. - strength when lifting a patient? - -Power
-Understand questions and the grip
implications of their decisions.
An unstable patient should be reassessed every
Providing basic care based on specific criteria is ____ minutes. - -5
called _____. - -Standard of Care
What is the most important personal protective
The medial part of the body is ______. - - equipment that you should be wearing when
Towards the midline. working with a patient? - -Disposable
gloves
Out of the brain, heart, lungs, and kidney, the
_______ would be considered to be the least What is the main purpose of an ongoing
vital. - -Kidney assessment? - -To identify changes in the
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, EMR Final Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Rated A
patient's condition.
When suctioning a patient, do not suction for
more than _____ seconds at a time - -15
A correctly placed blood pressure cuff will be
centered over the _____ artery. - -Brachial
If a choking patient goes unconscious, then the
first thing you must do is ______. - -Lower
What is the first thing you should do when them carefully to the ground
communicating with medical control? - -
Identify yourself
An oxygen cylinder should be refilled when the
pressure gauge reads _____ ppi or below. -
True or False. The tongue is the most likely -200
cause of a mechanical airway obstruction. -
-False
An advantage of a variable flow rate device on an
oxygen tank is that you can ______. - -
The ______ plane divided the body horizontally. Adjust the flow rate for different types of delivery
- -Axial (transverse) devices.
What is the most appropriate way to perform a A heart attack is also called a ____. - -
jaw-thrust maneuver? - -By sliding your Miocardial Infarction (MI)
fingers under then angles of the jawbones.
Never use an oropharyngeal airway if _____. -
You can only insert an oral airway if the patient is -The patient is alert and conscious
____. - -Unconscious
The best way to suction the mouth is to _____. -
This organ separated the thoracic cavity from the -Apply suction while withdrawing the tip in
abdominal cavity, and is responsible for a sweeping motion.
breathing. - -Diaphragm
The worst kind of questions to ask a patient
The _____ is the largest organ of the body. - begins with _____. - -Why?
-Skin
The best way to know if a patient is breathing is
What signs would you expect if hazardous to _____, _____, and _____. - -Look,
materials were present on a scene? - -Foul Listen, Feel
and acrid odors
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Rated A
Emergency Medical Responders are trained to
provide ______. - -Basic emergency care
When is it ok to move a seriously injured patient?
- -When a building is on fire, from a vehicle
How is malaria transmitted? - -Through that is smoking, and when the patient is blocking
vector-borne transmission (mosquitos) access to other patients.
Engineering controls include ______. - - What is the best way to move a patient who has
Biohazard containers a suspected neck or spinal injury? - -
Blanket Drag
The best way to care for someone who got body
fluids splashed in their eyes is to _____. - - What are some examples of mechanisms of
Flush the eyes with water or saline for 20 injury (MOI)? - -Explosions, penetrating
minutes. trauma, blunt force.
Which level of EMS provider is the most _________ materials may have strange odors
advanced? - -Paramedic and/or clouds of gas. - -Hazardous
These laws protect you when you act in good When arriving on the scene, this is your number
faith and within your scope of practice. - - one priority. - -Scene safety
Good Samaritan Laws
What allows for the maximum hand stability and
A person is competent when they ______. - strength when lifting a patient? - -Power
-Understand questions and the grip
implications of their decisions.
An unstable patient should be reassessed every
Providing basic care based on specific criteria is ____ minutes. - -5
called _____. - -Standard of Care
What is the most important personal protective
The medial part of the body is ______. - - equipment that you should be wearing when
Towards the midline. working with a patient? - -Disposable
gloves
Out of the brain, heart, lungs, and kidney, the
_______ would be considered to be the least What is the main purpose of an ongoing
vital. - -Kidney assessment? - -To identify changes in the
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, EMR Final Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Rated A
patient's condition.
When suctioning a patient, do not suction for
more than _____ seconds at a time - -15
A correctly placed blood pressure cuff will be
centered over the _____ artery. - -Brachial
If a choking patient goes unconscious, then the
first thing you must do is ______. - -Lower
What is the first thing you should do when them carefully to the ground
communicating with medical control? - -
Identify yourself
An oxygen cylinder should be refilled when the
pressure gauge reads _____ ppi or below. -
True or False. The tongue is the most likely -200
cause of a mechanical airway obstruction. -
-False
An advantage of a variable flow rate device on an
oxygen tank is that you can ______. - -
The ______ plane divided the body horizontally. Adjust the flow rate for different types of delivery
- -Axial (transverse) devices.
What is the most appropriate way to perform a A heart attack is also called a ____. - -
jaw-thrust maneuver? - -By sliding your Miocardial Infarction (MI)
fingers under then angles of the jawbones.
Never use an oropharyngeal airway if _____. -
You can only insert an oral airway if the patient is -The patient is alert and conscious
____. - -Unconscious
The best way to suction the mouth is to _____. -
This organ separated the thoracic cavity from the -Apply suction while withdrawing the tip in
abdominal cavity, and is responsible for a sweeping motion.
breathing. - -Diaphragm
The worst kind of questions to ask a patient
The _____ is the largest organ of the body. - begins with _____. - -Why?
-Skin
The best way to know if a patient is breathing is
What signs would you expect if hazardous to _____, _____, and _____. - -Look,
materials were present on a scene? - -Foul Listen, Feel
and acrid odors
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