PCE Exam questions with
comprehensive solutions
Yellow - ANS ✔✔A patient comes in to the ED with injuries that are potentially life-threatening,
but can wait. the patient should survive with medical attention. What triage category should be
assigned to this patient?
120 - ANS ✔✔Coxa vara is characterized by an angle greater than ___
Indirect physical transmission - ANS ✔✔A health care provider contracts and infectious agent
after using a pen that a patient used to sign consent forms. What mode of transmission has
occurred?
Guaranteed length of time until RTP - ANS ✔✔As the HCP, you must inform the patient, parent,
or guardian if the patient is a minor or other individual as designated by a patient of all of the
following EXCEPT
Conflict of Interest - ANS ✔✔This occurs when an AT's direct supervisor is the athletic director
and coach.
One has tested positive for TB - ANS ✔✔All are situations indicating reason to get a TB vaccine
except
3-5 minutes - ANS ✔✔Ideal amount of time between collapse to AED shock delivery
Having an interpreter available for non-English speaking patients - ANS ✔✔Which is an example
of cultural competency?
, Direct - ANS ✔✔What mode of transmission can occur over the longest distance?
Expressed - ANS ✔✔What for of consent is present when one takes off their sock for you to
evaluate their foot?
None - ANS ✔✔Which form of consent is represented when a minor orally consents?
Iliofemoral (y) ligament - ANS ✔✔The ______ prevents excessive hip extension and trunk
hyperextension.
90 - ANS ✔✔Hip flexion is typically limited to approximately ____ degrees with the knee
extended.
Charley horse - ANS ✔✔What is a thigh contusion that may range from mild to severe with
minimal tenderness and restriction to marked pain, throbbing, swelling, and disability?
Fracture - ANS ✔✔What injury is rare in athletics, when it is seen, usually occurs from a
tremendous force, violent direct blow, or excessive rotary stress?
Tension-side - ANS ✔✔A superior femoral neck stress fracture is referred to as:
Vascular status of the limb - ANS ✔✔A football player with stable vital signs has a left femoral
fracture and no open wound on the leg. The next step in your care of this athlete would be to
assess the ______.
Piriformis test - ANS ✔✔What special test is shown below?
Iliopsoas tendon - ANS ✔✔What structure(s) is involved with internal snapping hip syndrome?
comprehensive solutions
Yellow - ANS ✔✔A patient comes in to the ED with injuries that are potentially life-threatening,
but can wait. the patient should survive with medical attention. What triage category should be
assigned to this patient?
120 - ANS ✔✔Coxa vara is characterized by an angle greater than ___
Indirect physical transmission - ANS ✔✔A health care provider contracts and infectious agent
after using a pen that a patient used to sign consent forms. What mode of transmission has
occurred?
Guaranteed length of time until RTP - ANS ✔✔As the HCP, you must inform the patient, parent,
or guardian if the patient is a minor or other individual as designated by a patient of all of the
following EXCEPT
Conflict of Interest - ANS ✔✔This occurs when an AT's direct supervisor is the athletic director
and coach.
One has tested positive for TB - ANS ✔✔All are situations indicating reason to get a TB vaccine
except
3-5 minutes - ANS ✔✔Ideal amount of time between collapse to AED shock delivery
Having an interpreter available for non-English speaking patients - ANS ✔✔Which is an example
of cultural competency?
, Direct - ANS ✔✔What mode of transmission can occur over the longest distance?
Expressed - ANS ✔✔What for of consent is present when one takes off their sock for you to
evaluate their foot?
None - ANS ✔✔Which form of consent is represented when a minor orally consents?
Iliofemoral (y) ligament - ANS ✔✔The ______ prevents excessive hip extension and trunk
hyperextension.
90 - ANS ✔✔Hip flexion is typically limited to approximately ____ degrees with the knee
extended.
Charley horse - ANS ✔✔What is a thigh contusion that may range from mild to severe with
minimal tenderness and restriction to marked pain, throbbing, swelling, and disability?
Fracture - ANS ✔✔What injury is rare in athletics, when it is seen, usually occurs from a
tremendous force, violent direct blow, or excessive rotary stress?
Tension-side - ANS ✔✔A superior femoral neck stress fracture is referred to as:
Vascular status of the limb - ANS ✔✔A football player with stable vital signs has a left femoral
fracture and no open wound on the leg. The next step in your care of this athlete would be to
assess the ______.
Piriformis test - ANS ✔✔What special test is shown below?
Iliopsoas tendon - ANS ✔✔What structure(s) is involved with internal snapping hip syndrome?
