EMS EXAM #1 Questions with correct answers
Patient Advocacy - ✔✔You are encouraging a patient to go to the hospital by
ambulance. You know that a transport will keep you on duty several hours after
your regular quitting time. This is an example of?
Evidence- based research - ✔✔American heart association protocols are based
on:
EMS research - ✔✔The determination that prompt surgical care in the hospital is
more important than performing time-consuming procedures in the field on a
major trauma patient is based MOSTLY on:
indirect contact - ✔✔While providing care to a patient, blood got onto the
ambulance stretcher. Because the stretcher was not properly cleaned afterward,
a virus was transmitted to another emergency medical technician (EMT) several
days later. What route of transmission does this scenario describe?
distrust of the EMT - ✔✔Common factors that influence how a patient reacts to
the stress of an illness or injury include all of the following, EXCEPT
animals or insects - ✔✔Vector-borne transmission of an infectious organism
occurs via:
Exercise reasonable care and act prudently - ✔✔When performing his or her
duties, the EMT is generally expected to:
, driver's license - ✔✔Where would you MOST likely find information regarding a
patient's wishes to be an organ donor?
elevating the tone of your voice and exaggerating word pronunciation. -
✔✔Communicating with patients who are deaf or hard-of-hearing can be
facilitated by doing all of the following, EXCEPT:
Have the driver contact dispatch and relay the patient information to the hospital
- ✔✔You are transporting a 54-year-old male in respiratory arrest. An EMR is
driving the ambulance as you and your partner are caring for the patient. Which
of the following is the MOST logical way of notifying the hospital?
disease - ✔✔Pathophysiology is the study of the functional changes that occur
when the body reacts to a particular:
foramen magnum. - ✔✔The brain connects to the spinal cord through a large
opening at the base of the skull called the:
Arteries contract to increase BP - ✔✔What happens when blood volume is lost
from the body?
Secondary sexual development begins - ✔✔Which of the following is a physical
change that typically occurs in the adolescent age group?
70 beats per min - ✔✔The slowest normal pulse rate of persons between 19 and
60 years of age is:
Patient Advocacy - ✔✔You are encouraging a patient to go to the hospital by
ambulance. You know that a transport will keep you on duty several hours after
your regular quitting time. This is an example of?
Evidence- based research - ✔✔American heart association protocols are based
on:
EMS research - ✔✔The determination that prompt surgical care in the hospital is
more important than performing time-consuming procedures in the field on a
major trauma patient is based MOSTLY on:
indirect contact - ✔✔While providing care to a patient, blood got onto the
ambulance stretcher. Because the stretcher was not properly cleaned afterward,
a virus was transmitted to another emergency medical technician (EMT) several
days later. What route of transmission does this scenario describe?
distrust of the EMT - ✔✔Common factors that influence how a patient reacts to
the stress of an illness or injury include all of the following, EXCEPT
animals or insects - ✔✔Vector-borne transmission of an infectious organism
occurs via:
Exercise reasonable care and act prudently - ✔✔When performing his or her
duties, the EMT is generally expected to:
, driver's license - ✔✔Where would you MOST likely find information regarding a
patient's wishes to be an organ donor?
elevating the tone of your voice and exaggerating word pronunciation. -
✔✔Communicating with patients who are deaf or hard-of-hearing can be
facilitated by doing all of the following, EXCEPT:
Have the driver contact dispatch and relay the patient information to the hospital
- ✔✔You are transporting a 54-year-old male in respiratory arrest. An EMR is
driving the ambulance as you and your partner are caring for the patient. Which
of the following is the MOST logical way of notifying the hospital?
disease - ✔✔Pathophysiology is the study of the functional changes that occur
when the body reacts to a particular:
foramen magnum. - ✔✔The brain connects to the spinal cord through a large
opening at the base of the skull called the:
Arteries contract to increase BP - ✔✔What happens when blood volume is lost
from the body?
Secondary sexual development begins - ✔✔Which of the following is a physical
change that typically occurs in the adolescent age group?
70 beats per min - ✔✔The slowest normal pulse rate of persons between 19 and
60 years of age is:
