AMBULANCE DRIVER CA EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The beginning driver must possess at minimum: - ✔✔- Advanced first aid cert
- Valid CPR cert
- EMT cert w/in one year
✔✔An ambulance driver's primary responsibility is: - ✔✔- The safe transport of the
patient
✔✔Code 3 transport can be unnecessary and harmful because it can: - ✔✔- Frighten
the patient
- Put a stabilized patient into shock
- Disrupt ongoing medical treatment
- Aggravate certain conditions
✔✔Conditions that require especially smooth, normal speed transport include: - ✔✔-
Spinal injuries
- Serious fractures
- Heart attacks
✔✔Code 3 operation is advised for the following which constitute only 5-7% of total
trips: - ✔✔-Uncontrolled hemorrhage
- Uncontrolled cardiovascular or respiratory impairment (e.g. CHF, heart wounds,
pulmonary edema)
- Complicated impending childbirth (requiring operation)
✔✔The steady burning red warning lamp must be visible from: - ✔✔- 1000 ft
✔✔Hazards that must be anticipated by an ambulance driver during "Code 3" operation
include: - ✔✔- "Blind" intersections and driveways
- Motorists with impaired hearing
- Inattentive drivers
✔✔Ambulance drivers should: - ✔✔- Presume that other drivers do not hear the siren at
a safe distance under most conditions
- Be aware that other drivers often have difficulty in locating the source of siren sounds
- Restrict the use of sirens to situations where they are most effective; e.g. warning
peds and drivers traveling at reduced speeds w/low bg noise
- Avoid passing on the right
✔✔Front steady burning red warning light shall be displayed when: - ✔✔- Traveling
code 3
- An extreme hazard exists
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The beginning driver must possess at minimum: - ✔✔- Advanced first aid cert
- Valid CPR cert
- EMT cert w/in one year
✔✔An ambulance driver's primary responsibility is: - ✔✔- The safe transport of the
patient
✔✔Code 3 transport can be unnecessary and harmful because it can: - ✔✔- Frighten
the patient
- Put a stabilized patient into shock
- Disrupt ongoing medical treatment
- Aggravate certain conditions
✔✔Conditions that require especially smooth, normal speed transport include: - ✔✔-
Spinal injuries
- Serious fractures
- Heart attacks
✔✔Code 3 operation is advised for the following which constitute only 5-7% of total
trips: - ✔✔-Uncontrolled hemorrhage
- Uncontrolled cardiovascular or respiratory impairment (e.g. CHF, heart wounds,
pulmonary edema)
- Complicated impending childbirth (requiring operation)
✔✔The steady burning red warning lamp must be visible from: - ✔✔- 1000 ft
✔✔Hazards that must be anticipated by an ambulance driver during "Code 3" operation
include: - ✔✔- "Blind" intersections and driveways
- Motorists with impaired hearing
- Inattentive drivers
✔✔Ambulance drivers should: - ✔✔- Presume that other drivers do not hear the siren at
a safe distance under most conditions
- Be aware that other drivers often have difficulty in locating the source of siren sounds
- Restrict the use of sirens to situations where they are most effective; e.g. warning
peds and drivers traveling at reduced speeds w/low bg noise
- Avoid passing on the right
✔✔Front steady burning red warning light shall be displayed when: - ✔✔- Traveling
code 3
- An extreme hazard exists
