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NYS EMT CERTIFYING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Providing care within the scope of practice would be considered
behavior in accordance with:
1. The sovereign immunity doctrine
2. Approved protocols
3. Professional Standards
4. Institutional Standards - correct answer- Professional
Standards
As you lift a patient into the rear of the ambulance, a reporter
recognizes the patient as a State Senator. Immediately the
press demands to be told what has happened to the senator.
You Should:
1. Advise the press that you are unable to comment
2. Deny the patient is the Senator
3. Tell the press your diagnosis
4. Advise the press to contact the Senator's family - correct
answer- Advise the press that you are unable to comment
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If the patient care protocols have been revised, it is the EMS
providers responsibility to
1. Attend in-service training with the agency medical director to
become familiar with the new protocols
2. Continue to use the old protocols because they are already
familiar
3. Begin to use the new protocols as soon as the agency
receives them
4. Operate only when in direct communication with the
physician - correct answer- Attend in-service training with the
agency medical director to become familiar with new protocols
During the Initial Assessment, you are assessing a conscious
trauma patient complaining loudly of pain in the leg. You should
1. Begin to obtain the history
2. Assess the leg immediately
3. Discontinue the initial Assessment, start the Detailed
Physical Exam
4. Continue with your initial assessment - correct answer-
Continue with your initial assessment
The overall purpose of the initial Assessment is to
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1. Identify and correct life-threatening problems and set
priorities
2. Ensure that the airway is open and locate breathing
problems
3. Identify and treat major extremity injuries
4. Identify minor problems and provide treatment - correct
answer- Identify and correct life-threatening problems and set
priorities
Systolic blood pressure indicates the pressure when the
1. Atria are contracting
2. Atria are relaxing
3. Ventricles are contracting
4. Ventricles are relaxing - correct answer- Ventricles are
contracting
In what order is the Detailed Physical Exam usually conducted
on an adult patient?
1. Head, Neck, extremities, chest, pelvis, abdomen
2. Head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities
3. Head, neck, abdomen, chest, pelvis, extremities
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4. Head, chest, abdomen, neck, pelvis, and extremities -
correct answer- Head, Neck, Chest, Abdomen, Pelvis, And
Extremities
A driver has crashed into a tree. In what order should you
check for the signs of life-threatening problems in this accident
victim?
1. Pulse, respirations, Hemorrhage
2. Respirations, Hemorrhage, and pulse
3. Hemorrhage, Pulse, and Respirations
4. Respirations, Pulse, And hemorrhage - correct answer-
Respirations, Pulse, And hemorrhage
In assessing a pediatric trauma patient's capillary refill time, an
abnormal finding would be a refill time of
1. Greater than 5 seconds
2. Less than 2 seconds
3. Greater than 2 seconds
4. Greater than 4 seconds - correct answer- Greater than 2
seconds
NYS EMT CERTIFYING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Providing care within the scope of practice would be considered
behavior in accordance with:
1. The sovereign immunity doctrine
2. Approved protocols
3. Professional Standards
4. Institutional Standards - correct answer- Professional
Standards
As you lift a patient into the rear of the ambulance, a reporter
recognizes the patient as a State Senator. Immediately the
press demands to be told what has happened to the senator.
You Should:
1. Advise the press that you are unable to comment
2. Deny the patient is the Senator
3. Tell the press your diagnosis
4. Advise the press to contact the Senator's family - correct
answer- Advise the press that you are unable to comment
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If the patient care protocols have been revised, it is the EMS
providers responsibility to
1. Attend in-service training with the agency medical director to
become familiar with the new protocols
2. Continue to use the old protocols because they are already
familiar
3. Begin to use the new protocols as soon as the agency
receives them
4. Operate only when in direct communication with the
physician - correct answer- Attend in-service training with the
agency medical director to become familiar with new protocols
During the Initial Assessment, you are assessing a conscious
trauma patient complaining loudly of pain in the leg. You should
1. Begin to obtain the history
2. Assess the leg immediately
3. Discontinue the initial Assessment, start the Detailed
Physical Exam
4. Continue with your initial assessment - correct answer-
Continue with your initial assessment
The overall purpose of the initial Assessment is to
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1. Identify and correct life-threatening problems and set
priorities
2. Ensure that the airway is open and locate breathing
problems
3. Identify and treat major extremity injuries
4. Identify minor problems and provide treatment - correct
answer- Identify and correct life-threatening problems and set
priorities
Systolic blood pressure indicates the pressure when the
1. Atria are contracting
2. Atria are relaxing
3. Ventricles are contracting
4. Ventricles are relaxing - correct answer- Ventricles are
contracting
In what order is the Detailed Physical Exam usually conducted
on an adult patient?
1. Head, Neck, extremities, chest, pelvis, abdomen
2. Head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities
3. Head, neck, abdomen, chest, pelvis, extremities
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4. Head, chest, abdomen, neck, pelvis, and extremities -
correct answer- Head, Neck, Chest, Abdomen, Pelvis, And
Extremities
A driver has crashed into a tree. In what order should you
check for the signs of life-threatening problems in this accident
victim?
1. Pulse, respirations, Hemorrhage
2. Respirations, Hemorrhage, and pulse
3. Hemorrhage, Pulse, and Respirations
4. Respirations, Pulse, And hemorrhage - correct answer-
Respirations, Pulse, And hemorrhage
In assessing a pediatric trauma patient's capillary refill time, an
abnormal finding would be a refill time of
1. Greater than 5 seconds
2. Less than 2 seconds
3. Greater than 2 seconds
4. Greater than 4 seconds - correct answer- Greater than 2
seconds
