CIEMT EMT COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) - ✔✔- Pre-incident stress education
- Defusing (informal meeting)
*** On-scene peer support ***
- CISD (briefing, formal meeting)
✔✔Defusing vs. Debriefing - ✔✔Defusing sessions = within 2 - 4 hrs but not more than
24 hrs, informal (EX: at dinner table)
Debriefing sessions = held within 24 - 72 hrs of major incident
✔✔Communicable Diseases - ✔✔From one person to another
Minimize risks with PROPER PROTECTION
✔✔Routes of Transmission - ✔✔1. Direct = sneezing, needle
2. Vehicle (Indirect) = touching contaminated linens, backboards, gurneys
3. Vector-borne = tick
4. Airborne = inhale contamined droplets
✔✔Who establishes the universal precautions for EMS? - ✔✔Center for Disease
Control (CDC)
Conducts and supports public health activities
✔✔Virulent - ✔✔Pathogen which is strong and able to produce diseases
✔✔Reducing Risk of Infection - ✔✔- ALWAYS follow BSI!!!!!
- Wash hands
- Keep immunization records current
- Make infection control procedures a part of your daily routine
✔✔Conjuctive - ✔✔Pink @ bottom of the eye
MUCUS MEMBRANE
✔✔Immunizations - ✔✔- Tetanus
- Measles, mumps, rubella
- Influenza vaccine
*** Hepatitis B vaccine ***
✔✔What does "itis" mean and what are the universal signs for any form of this? -
✔✔"itis" = inflammation
, Fevers, chills, nausea, and vomiting
✔✔Hepatitis - ✔✔- Inflammation of liver
- Hepatitis B/C transmitted through blood contact
1. Weakness
2. Fatigue
3. Fever
4. Weight loss
5. JAUNDICE
**Generally, transmitted by blood to blood contact**
✔✔HIV Infection - ✔✔- Causes AIDS
- NOT easily transmitted in work setting
- Contaminated needles can transmit
**Generally, transmitted by blood to blood contact**
✔✔Meningitis - ✔✔1. Nuchal rigidity (stiff neck)
2. Photophobia (sensitivity to light)
- usually not contagious besides Meningococcus meningitidis
**Generally, transmitted by contact with respiratory secretions**
✔✔Tuberculosis (TB) - ✔✔1. Productive cough (hacking stuff up)
2. Bloody sputum (mucus coming up)
MUST WEAR HEPA MASK if you suspect patient has TB
✔✔Type of Mask worn for TB Patients - ✔✔HEPA Mask or N95
✔✔Syphillis - ✔✔- can be bloodborne
- result from needle stick
✔✔Whooping Cough - ✔✔- airborne
- usually in children
- wear mask to avoid
✔✔MRSA - ✔✔- do not fully eat your complete dose of medication
- always changing forms
✔✔Newly Recognized Diseases - ✔✔1. Hantavirus
2. SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)
3. Avian flu (bird flu)
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) - ✔✔- Pre-incident stress education
- Defusing (informal meeting)
*** On-scene peer support ***
- CISD (briefing, formal meeting)
✔✔Defusing vs. Debriefing - ✔✔Defusing sessions = within 2 - 4 hrs but not more than
24 hrs, informal (EX: at dinner table)
Debriefing sessions = held within 24 - 72 hrs of major incident
✔✔Communicable Diseases - ✔✔From one person to another
Minimize risks with PROPER PROTECTION
✔✔Routes of Transmission - ✔✔1. Direct = sneezing, needle
2. Vehicle (Indirect) = touching contaminated linens, backboards, gurneys
3. Vector-borne = tick
4. Airborne = inhale contamined droplets
✔✔Who establishes the universal precautions for EMS? - ✔✔Center for Disease
Control (CDC)
Conducts and supports public health activities
✔✔Virulent - ✔✔Pathogen which is strong and able to produce diseases
✔✔Reducing Risk of Infection - ✔✔- ALWAYS follow BSI!!!!!
- Wash hands
- Keep immunization records current
- Make infection control procedures a part of your daily routine
✔✔Conjuctive - ✔✔Pink @ bottom of the eye
MUCUS MEMBRANE
✔✔Immunizations - ✔✔- Tetanus
- Measles, mumps, rubella
- Influenza vaccine
*** Hepatitis B vaccine ***
✔✔What does "itis" mean and what are the universal signs for any form of this? -
✔✔"itis" = inflammation
, Fevers, chills, nausea, and vomiting
✔✔Hepatitis - ✔✔- Inflammation of liver
- Hepatitis B/C transmitted through blood contact
1. Weakness
2. Fatigue
3. Fever
4. Weight loss
5. JAUNDICE
**Generally, transmitted by blood to blood contact**
✔✔HIV Infection - ✔✔- Causes AIDS
- NOT easily transmitted in work setting
- Contaminated needles can transmit
**Generally, transmitted by blood to blood contact**
✔✔Meningitis - ✔✔1. Nuchal rigidity (stiff neck)
2. Photophobia (sensitivity to light)
- usually not contagious besides Meningococcus meningitidis
**Generally, transmitted by contact with respiratory secretions**
✔✔Tuberculosis (TB) - ✔✔1. Productive cough (hacking stuff up)
2. Bloody sputum (mucus coming up)
MUST WEAR HEPA MASK if you suspect patient has TB
✔✔Type of Mask worn for TB Patients - ✔✔HEPA Mask or N95
✔✔Syphillis - ✔✔- can be bloodborne
- result from needle stick
✔✔Whooping Cough - ✔✔- airborne
- usually in children
- wear mask to avoid
✔✔MRSA - ✔✔- do not fully eat your complete dose of medication
- always changing forms
✔✔Newly Recognized Diseases - ✔✔1. Hantavirus
2. SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)
3. Avian flu (bird flu)
