EMT Primary Assessment Quiz 2025 –
Test Your Skills & Knowledge
ABC - ANSWER ✨✔---Airway- Breathing- Circulation
AVPU - ANSWER ✨✔---Classify the patients mental status level of responsiveness
Chief Complaint - ANSWER ✨✔---in emergency medicine, the reason that the EMS unit was called,
usually patients own words
General Impression - ANSWER ✨✔---impression of the patients condition that is formed on first
approaching the patient
Interventions - ANSWER ✨✔---actions taken to correct the patients problem
Mental Status - ANSWER ✨✔---level of responsivness
Primary Assessment - ANSWER ✨✔---the first assessment of the patient: steps taken for the
purpose of discovering and dealing with any life threatening problems
Priority - ANSWER ✨✔---the decision regarding the need for immediate transwerport of the
patient
, Which of the following steps in NOT part of primary assessment of a responsive patient with a medical
problem
A. Assess the patient's mental status
B.Assess the adequacy of breathing
C. Determine patient's priority
D. Obtain the patient's BP - ANSWER ✨✔---D. the primary assessment does not include Blood
Pressure
The general impression is an evaluation of all of the following except:
A. the patient's chief complaint
B. appearance
C. the environment
D. past medical history - ANSWER ✨✔---D. the patients past medical history is not part of general
impression
You are assessing a patient and making observation about the scene. Finding drug use paraphernalia at
the scene of an emergency is and example of:
A. an indication of the patients chief complaint
B. the environment part of the general impression
C. an assessment of the scene safety.
D. a medical history of drug addiction - ANSWER ✨✔---D. a medical history of drug addiction (help
clues about the cause)
When a patient tells you in his own words, why he requested that an ambulance be called, this is
referred to as the:
A. general impression
B. chief complaint
C. primary assessment
D. secondary assessment - ANSWER ✨✔---B. Chief complaint- patients own words
During the general impression the EMT should:
Test Your Skills & Knowledge
ABC - ANSWER ✨✔---Airway- Breathing- Circulation
AVPU - ANSWER ✨✔---Classify the patients mental status level of responsiveness
Chief Complaint - ANSWER ✨✔---in emergency medicine, the reason that the EMS unit was called,
usually patients own words
General Impression - ANSWER ✨✔---impression of the patients condition that is formed on first
approaching the patient
Interventions - ANSWER ✨✔---actions taken to correct the patients problem
Mental Status - ANSWER ✨✔---level of responsivness
Primary Assessment - ANSWER ✨✔---the first assessment of the patient: steps taken for the
purpose of discovering and dealing with any life threatening problems
Priority - ANSWER ✨✔---the decision regarding the need for immediate transwerport of the
patient
, Which of the following steps in NOT part of primary assessment of a responsive patient with a medical
problem
A. Assess the patient's mental status
B.Assess the adequacy of breathing
C. Determine patient's priority
D. Obtain the patient's BP - ANSWER ✨✔---D. the primary assessment does not include Blood
Pressure
The general impression is an evaluation of all of the following except:
A. the patient's chief complaint
B. appearance
C. the environment
D. past medical history - ANSWER ✨✔---D. the patients past medical history is not part of general
impression
You are assessing a patient and making observation about the scene. Finding drug use paraphernalia at
the scene of an emergency is and example of:
A. an indication of the patients chief complaint
B. the environment part of the general impression
C. an assessment of the scene safety.
D. a medical history of drug addiction - ANSWER ✨✔---D. a medical history of drug addiction (help
clues about the cause)
When a patient tells you in his own words, why he requested that an ambulance be called, this is
referred to as the:
A. general impression
B. chief complaint
C. primary assessment
D. secondary assessment - ANSWER ✨✔---B. Chief complaint- patients own words
During the general impression the EMT should:
