ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST
STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 GRADED
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,1. A critical incident stress debriefing should be conducted no longer than
hours following the incident. ✓✓ Correct answer 72
2. Which of the following skills or interventions is included at every level of prehospital emergency training?
✓✓ Correct answer AED
3. As an EMT, it is important to remember that the signs and symptoms of cumulative stress ✓✓ Correct answer
✓✓ Correct answer may not be present or obvious at all times
4. The patient care report (PCR) ensures ✓✓ Correct answer ✓✓ Correct answer continuity of care
5. Which of the following scenarios does NOT involve the administration of ALS?
A. a 53-year-old patient who is given glucagon for significant hypoglycemia Incorrect
B. a 64-year-old cardiac arrest patient who is defibrillated with an automated external defibrillator (AED)
Correct
C. a 48-year-old patient whose airway is secured with a multilumen device Incorrect
D. a 61-year-old trauma patient whose chest is decompressed with a needle Incorrect ✓✓ Correct answer B. a 64-year-old
cardiac arrest patient who is defibrillated with an automated external defibrillator (AED)
6. A patient's refusal for EMS treatment and/or transport must be ✓✓ Correct answer ✓✓ Correct answer an informed
refusal
7. Which of the following MOST accurately defines negligence? ✓✓ Correct answer deviation from the standard of care that
may result in further injury
8. Which of the following scenarios MOST accurately depicts abandonment? ✓✓ Correct answer A paramedic
transfers patient care to an EMT
9. While assisting an advanced life support (ALS) ambulance crew, you are accidentally stuck with an IV needle. You
should ✓✓ Correct answer ✓✓ Correct answer report the incident to your supervisor after the call
10. A positive TB skin test indicates that ✓✓ Correct answer ✓✓ Correct answer . you have been exposed to the disease.
11. Communicating with hearing-impaired patients can be facilitated by doing all of the following, EXCEPT ✓✓
Correct answer ✓✓ Correct answer . elevating the tone of your voice and exaggerating word pronunciation.
12. When relaying patient information via radio, communications should be ✓✓ Correct answer ✓✓ Correct
answer . brief and easily understood.
13. f an action or procedure that was performed on a patient is not recorded on the written report ✓✓ Correct answer ✓
, ✓ Correct answer it was not performed in the eyes of the law.
Maintaining the chain of evidence at the scene of a crime should include ✓✓ Correct answer not cutting through holes in clothing
that were caused by weapons
14. When you begin an oral report, you should state the patient's age, sex, and ✓✓ Correct answer ✓✓ Correct
answer chief complaint.
15. The person who is responsible for authorizing EMTs to perform emergency medical care in the field is the ✓✓
Correct answer ✓✓ Correct answer medical director.
16. Two-way communication that requires the EMT to "push to talk" and "release to listen" describes what mode of
communication? ✓✓ Correct answer . simplex
17. According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regula- tions, an employer must ✓✓ Correct
answer ✓✓ Correct answer otter a workplace environment that reduces the risk for exposure.
18. which of the following errors is an example of a knowledge-based failure? An EMT gives the correct drug to a
patient, although his protocols clearly state that he is not authorized to do so.
B. Due to an improperly applied cervical collar, a patient's spinal injury is aggravated and he is permanently
disabled.
C. An EMT administers the wrong drug to a patient because she did not know the pertinent information about t
drug.
D. A patient is given nitroglycerin by an EMT who did not obtain proper authorization from medical control first. ✓✓
Correct answer An EMT administers the wrong drug to a patient because she did not know the pertinent information about the drug. Correct
19. Which of the following statements regarding the Good Samaritan law is correct?
It provides the EMT immunity from a lawsuit.
B. The law does not protect EMTs who are off duty.
C. It will not protect the EMT in cases of gross negligence.
D. It guarantees that the EMT will not be held liable if he or she is sued. ✓✓ Correct answer it will not protect the EMT in cas
of gross negligence.
20. In which of the following situations does the EMT NOT have a legal duty to act?
Choose one answer.
A. a response to an injured patient while off duty
B. a response to a motor vehicle crash while off duty