Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Advanced EMT 2nd Edition
(Alexander/Belle) Chapter 2 Emergency
Medical Services, Health Care, and
Public Health Systems Questions and
Correct Verified Answers
Which of the following marks the beginning of the modern history of EMS?
A) Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
B) Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society
C) Publication of the National Standard Curriculum
D) The Highway Safety Act of 1970
✓ Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Society
Until modern times, MOST medical care took place:
✓ outside of hospitals
In the United States, the MOST rapid increase in the number of hospitals occurred
during the:
✓ 19th century
One of the MOST recent military lessons incorporated into civilian EMS is the increased
use of:
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ tourniquets
Which of the following provided federal funding for EMS system development?
✓ Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
The FIRST public CPR courses began during the:
✓ 1960s
The author of the FIRST paramedic textbook was:
✓ Nancy Caroline
Who developed the FIRST set of standardized dispatch protocols in 1978, which have
evolved into the widely used Medical Priority Dispatch System?
✓ Jeff Clawson
Who developed the concept of the "Golden Hour" and was instrumental in the
development of one of the FIRST air EMS services in the country through the Maryland
State Police?
✓ R. Adams Cowley
Who was the founding executive director of the NREMT and instrumental in developing
the NAEMT?
✓ Rocco Morando
Top Mark !!!
Advanced EMT 2nd Edition
(Alexander/Belle) Chapter 2 Emergency
Medical Services, Health Care, and
Public Health Systems Questions and
Correct Verified Answers
Which of the following marks the beginning of the modern history of EMS?
A) Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
B) Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society
C) Publication of the National Standard Curriculum
D) The Highway Safety Act of 1970
✓ Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Society
Until modern times, MOST medical care took place:
✓ outside of hospitals
In the United States, the MOST rapid increase in the number of hospitals occurred
during the:
✓ 19th century
One of the MOST recent military lessons incorporated into civilian EMS is the increased
use of:
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ tourniquets
Which of the following provided federal funding for EMS system development?
✓ Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
The FIRST public CPR courses began during the:
✓ 1960s
The author of the FIRST paramedic textbook was:
✓ Nancy Caroline
Who developed the FIRST set of standardized dispatch protocols in 1978, which have
evolved into the widely used Medical Priority Dispatch System?
✓ Jeff Clawson
Who developed the concept of the "Golden Hour" and was instrumental in the
development of one of the FIRST air EMS services in the country through the Maryland
State Police?
✓ R. Adams Cowley
Who was the founding executive director of the NREMT and instrumental in developing
the NAEMT?
✓ Rocco Morando
Top Mark !!!
