AHE Final: Comprehensive Study Guide
Important Dates for EMT - correct answer ✔✔1966- DOT charged with developing EMS Standards
1970- Founding of the NREMT
1973- National Emergency Medical Service Systems Act passed by congress
What is NHTSA - correct answer ✔✔National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Who Invented EMS - correct answer ✔✔The French
How EMS changed throughout the years - correct answer ✔✔Civil war: Clara Barton began emergency
service then later helped establish the red cross
WW1: Volunteer Ambulance corps and development of the medic position
Korea/Vietnam: Medical teams produced advances in field care, Trauma centers were developed and
only devoted to Trauma
Nonmilitary Ambulances: Operated by local undertaker, did not develop in smaller communities until the
late 1940s
The 4 levels of EMS Certification(Lowest to Highest) - correct answer ✔✔EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic
What is affective domain and why is it important to become an EMT? - correct answer ✔✔Demeanor
and how you treat your peers, patients, and superiors
NHTSA Standards for EMS Systems - correct answer ✔✔Regulation and Policy, Resource Management,
Human Resources and Training, Transportation, Facilities, Communications, Public Info and Education,
Medical Direction, Trauma Systems, Evaluation
Regulation and Policy - correct answer ✔✔Each stater establishes laws, a lead EMS agency, a funding
mechanism, policies, procedures, and regulations
,Human Resource and Training - correct answer ✔✔Assure EMS personnel are trained and certified to
minimum standards
Transportation - correct answer ✔✔Assure all EMS systems are able to have safe and reliable
transportation
Facilities - correct answer ✔✔Transport to nearest facility
Communications - correct answer ✔✔Universal system access number(911); dispatch to ambulance,
ambulance to ambulance, and hospital to hospital communications
Public Info and Education - correct answer ✔✔Educate and inform the public regarding health issues,
how to prevent them, and how to access EMS
Medical Direction - correct answer ✔✔The leader of an emergency response; accountable for all EMS
personnel in the response system
Trauma Systems - correct answer ✔✔Develop trauma triage, transport, and treatment protocols
Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔Establish program for evaluating and improving effectiveness
What are the dangers of an EMT? - correct answer ✔✔Unsafe Scene, Unsafe Patients, Stress, Burnout,
Physical Injury
What types of Pathogens Exist - correct answer ✔✔Hep A, Hep B, Hep C, Tuberculosis, SARS, MERS,
Influenza
Hep A - correct answer ✔✔Spread through Fecal to Oral
Jaundice
Hep B - correct answer ✔✔Deadly
, 100s of health care workers each year before vaccine was made
Blood and Bodily Fluids
Hep C - correct answer ✔✔Poses same risk
No Vaccine Yet
Only through blood
Tuberculosis - correct answer ✔✔Spread through tiny droplets in the air
Contagious Mycobacterium
Active and Latent Periods of Progression
Symptoms: Night Sweats, Hemoptysis, Persistent Cough
SARS - correct answer ✔✔Signs and Symptoms: Fever of 100.5, Dry Cough, Fatigue, SOB/ Difficulty of
Breathing, headache, Diarrhea, Body aches, Chills, Pneumonia
Modes of Transmission: Respiratory Droplets, Coughing, Sneezing, Touching something contaminated
then touching nose and eyes
Influenza - correct answer ✔✔Around for 100s of years, 1918 pandemic killed between 30-50 million
Emergency Moves - correct answer ✔✔Hazardous Scene, Care of life-threatening conditions requires
repositioning, You must reach other patients
Incline Drag, Clothes Drag, Firefighter Drag, Blanket Drag, One Rescuer for closer transport, Two for
farther
Urgent Moves - correct answer ✔✔The required treatment can be performed only if the patient is
moved, factors at the scene cause patient decline, usually involves moving the patient to a backboard,
most common call is extracting a patient from their car
Nonurgent Moves - correct answer ✔✔No immediate life threat, Patient can be assessed, treated, and
moved in normal way, take all required precautions not to aggravate existing conditions
Important Dates for EMT - correct answer ✔✔1966- DOT charged with developing EMS Standards
1970- Founding of the NREMT
1973- National Emergency Medical Service Systems Act passed by congress
What is NHTSA - correct answer ✔✔National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Who Invented EMS - correct answer ✔✔The French
How EMS changed throughout the years - correct answer ✔✔Civil war: Clara Barton began emergency
service then later helped establish the red cross
WW1: Volunteer Ambulance corps and development of the medic position
Korea/Vietnam: Medical teams produced advances in field care, Trauma centers were developed and
only devoted to Trauma
Nonmilitary Ambulances: Operated by local undertaker, did not develop in smaller communities until the
late 1940s
The 4 levels of EMS Certification(Lowest to Highest) - correct answer ✔✔EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic
What is affective domain and why is it important to become an EMT? - correct answer ✔✔Demeanor
and how you treat your peers, patients, and superiors
NHTSA Standards for EMS Systems - correct answer ✔✔Regulation and Policy, Resource Management,
Human Resources and Training, Transportation, Facilities, Communications, Public Info and Education,
Medical Direction, Trauma Systems, Evaluation
Regulation and Policy - correct answer ✔✔Each stater establishes laws, a lead EMS agency, a funding
mechanism, policies, procedures, and regulations
,Human Resource and Training - correct answer ✔✔Assure EMS personnel are trained and certified to
minimum standards
Transportation - correct answer ✔✔Assure all EMS systems are able to have safe and reliable
transportation
Facilities - correct answer ✔✔Transport to nearest facility
Communications - correct answer ✔✔Universal system access number(911); dispatch to ambulance,
ambulance to ambulance, and hospital to hospital communications
Public Info and Education - correct answer ✔✔Educate and inform the public regarding health issues,
how to prevent them, and how to access EMS
Medical Direction - correct answer ✔✔The leader of an emergency response; accountable for all EMS
personnel in the response system
Trauma Systems - correct answer ✔✔Develop trauma triage, transport, and treatment protocols
Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔Establish program for evaluating and improving effectiveness
What are the dangers of an EMT? - correct answer ✔✔Unsafe Scene, Unsafe Patients, Stress, Burnout,
Physical Injury
What types of Pathogens Exist - correct answer ✔✔Hep A, Hep B, Hep C, Tuberculosis, SARS, MERS,
Influenza
Hep A - correct answer ✔✔Spread through Fecal to Oral
Jaundice
Hep B - correct answer ✔✔Deadly
, 100s of health care workers each year before vaccine was made
Blood and Bodily Fluids
Hep C - correct answer ✔✔Poses same risk
No Vaccine Yet
Only through blood
Tuberculosis - correct answer ✔✔Spread through tiny droplets in the air
Contagious Mycobacterium
Active and Latent Periods of Progression
Symptoms: Night Sweats, Hemoptysis, Persistent Cough
SARS - correct answer ✔✔Signs and Symptoms: Fever of 100.5, Dry Cough, Fatigue, SOB/ Difficulty of
Breathing, headache, Diarrhea, Body aches, Chills, Pneumonia
Modes of Transmission: Respiratory Droplets, Coughing, Sneezing, Touching something contaminated
then touching nose and eyes
Influenza - correct answer ✔✔Around for 100s of years, 1918 pandemic killed between 30-50 million
Emergency Moves - correct answer ✔✔Hazardous Scene, Care of life-threatening conditions requires
repositioning, You must reach other patients
Incline Drag, Clothes Drag, Firefighter Drag, Blanket Drag, One Rescuer for closer transport, Two for
farther
Urgent Moves - correct answer ✔✔The required treatment can be performed only if the patient is
moved, factors at the scene cause patient decline, usually involves moving the patient to a backboard,
most common call is extracting a patient from their car
Nonurgent Moves - correct answer ✔✔No immediate life threat, Patient can be assessed, treated, and
moved in normal way, take all required precautions not to aggravate existing conditions
