Test Bank for Prehospital Emergency Care 11th Edition
Test Bank
Prehospital
Emergency
Care
11th Edition
Joseph Mistovich, Keith Karren, Brent Hafen
, Test Bank for Prehospital Emergency Care 11th Edition
Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Emergency Care Systems, Research, and Publich Health
Chapter 02: Workforce Safety and Wellness of the EMT
Chapter 03: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues
Chapter 04: Documentation
Chapter 05: Communication
Chapter 06: Lifting and Moving Patients
Chapter 07: Anatomy, Physiology, and Medical Terminology
Chapter 08: Pathophysiology
Chapter 09: Life Span Development
Chapter 10: Airway Management, Artificial Ventilation, and Oxygenation
Chapter 11: Vital Signs, Monitoring Devices, and History Taking
Chapter 12: Scene Size:Up
Chapter 13: Patient Assessment
Chapter 14: General Pharmacology and Medication Administration
Chapter 15: Shock and Resuscitation
Chapter 16: Respiratory Emergencies
Chapter 17: Cardiovascular Emergencies
Chapter 18: Altered Mental Status, Stroke, and Headache
Chapter 19: Seizures and Syncope
Chapter 20: Acute Diabetic Emergencies
Chapter 21: Allergic and Anaphylactic Reactions
Chapter 22: Toxicologic Emergencies
Chapter 23: Abdominal, Hematologic, Gynecologic, Genitourinary, and Renal Emergencies
Chapter 24: Environmental Emergencies
Chapter 25: Submersion Incidents: Drowning and Diving Emergencies
Chapter 26: Psychiatric Emergencies
Chapter 27: Trauma Overview- The Trauma Patient and the Trauma System
Chapter 28: Bleeding and Soft Tissue Trauma
Chapter 29: Burns
Chapter 30: Musculoskeletal Trauma and Nontraumatic Fractures
Chapter 31: Head Trauma
Chapter 32: Spinal Trauma and Spine Motion Restriction
Chapter 33: Eye, Face, and Neck Trauma
Chapter 34: Chest Trauma
Chapter 35: Abdominal and Genitourinary Trauma
Chapter 36: Multisystem Trauma and Trauma in Special Patient Populations
Chapter 37: Obstetrics and Care of the Newborn
Chapter 38: Pediatrics
Chapter 39: Geriatrics
Chapter 40: Patients with Special Challenges
Chapter 41: The Combat Veteran
Chapter 42: Ambulance Operations and Air Medical Response
Chapter 43: Gaining Access and Patient Extrication
Chapter 44: Hazardous Materials
Chapter 45: Multiple-Casualty Incidents and Incident Management
Chapter 46: EMS Response to Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction
, Test Bank for Prehospital Emergency Care 11th Edition
Chapter 1 Emergency Care Systems, Research, and Public Health
1) What is a primary purpose of the modern-day EMS system?
A) Provide a means of transport to and from the hospital
B) Ensure that all members of society have equal access to hospitals
C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and illness
D) Provide emergency health care services to medically underserved areas
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 7
Objective: 1-2
2) Most authorities agree that the modern-day EMS system evolved after the release of which
document?
A) The Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern
Society" in 1966
C) The American Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiac Resuscitation
D) Emergency Medical Services: Agenda for the Future, in 1996
Answer: B
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 3
Objective: 1-2
3) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that he would like to work for
your emergency ambulance service on a full-time basis. Knowing the National EMS Scope of
Practice Model, you inform him of which element?
A) He will be able to take care of only patients with non-life-threatening complaints
B) He will first need approval from your ambulance service's medical director
C) He will be able to work only with an Advanced EMT or paramedic
D) He will first have to become an Emergency Medical Technician
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Objective: 1-1
4) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of EMS
practitioners include:
A) Ambulance drivers
B) EMS medical director
C) Paramedics
D) Emergency medical dispatchers
Answer: C
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Objective: 1-3
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5) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that he is interested in
becoming an EMT. Specifically, he asks what he will be able to do as an EMT that he cannot
presently do as an EMR. You respond by saying he will be able to:
A) Administer some medications
B) Assist in emergency childbirth
C) Use an automated external defibrillator
D) Obtain vital signs
Answer: A
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Objective: 1-5
6) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest. Emergency Medical
Responders (EMRs) are on scene. In your community, all EMS practitioners are trained
according to the National EMS Scope of Practice Model. Given this, which type of care do you
expect the EMRs to be providing?
A) Emergency medication administration
B) Automated external defibrillation
C) Intravenous therapy
D) Reading an electrocardiogram
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6
Objective: 1-5
7) An EMT with your service states that she desires to become a paramedic because she wants to
provide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, which one of these
types of care will she be able to provide as a paramedic that she cannot provide as an EMT?
A) Automated blood pressure monitoring
B) Assistance with emergency childbirth
C) Interfacility transports
D) IV therapy
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 7
Objective: 1-5
8) Which statement made by an EMT requires immediate intervention by a superior or the
service supervisor?
A) "I always wear my seat belt whenever I am in the patient compartment of the ambulance,
unless I have to remove it to care for a patient."
B) "I drive as fast as I can to get to the scene of an emergency, especially if a child is sick or
injured according to dispatch information."
C) "When I am driving with lights and sirens, I instruct my partner that he will need to handle all
radio communications."
D) "I put exam gloves on for every patient I contact, even if he or she does not have a known or
suspected infectious disease."
Answer: B
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 9
Objective: 1-7
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Test Bank
Prehospital
Emergency
Care
11th Edition
Joseph Mistovich, Keith Karren, Brent Hafen
, Test Bank for Prehospital Emergency Care 11th Edition
Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Emergency Care Systems, Research, and Publich Health
Chapter 02: Workforce Safety and Wellness of the EMT
Chapter 03: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues
Chapter 04: Documentation
Chapter 05: Communication
Chapter 06: Lifting and Moving Patients
Chapter 07: Anatomy, Physiology, and Medical Terminology
Chapter 08: Pathophysiology
Chapter 09: Life Span Development
Chapter 10: Airway Management, Artificial Ventilation, and Oxygenation
Chapter 11: Vital Signs, Monitoring Devices, and History Taking
Chapter 12: Scene Size:Up
Chapter 13: Patient Assessment
Chapter 14: General Pharmacology and Medication Administration
Chapter 15: Shock and Resuscitation
Chapter 16: Respiratory Emergencies
Chapter 17: Cardiovascular Emergencies
Chapter 18: Altered Mental Status, Stroke, and Headache
Chapter 19: Seizures and Syncope
Chapter 20: Acute Diabetic Emergencies
Chapter 21: Allergic and Anaphylactic Reactions
Chapter 22: Toxicologic Emergencies
Chapter 23: Abdominal, Hematologic, Gynecologic, Genitourinary, and Renal Emergencies
Chapter 24: Environmental Emergencies
Chapter 25: Submersion Incidents: Drowning and Diving Emergencies
Chapter 26: Psychiatric Emergencies
Chapter 27: Trauma Overview- The Trauma Patient and the Trauma System
Chapter 28: Bleeding and Soft Tissue Trauma
Chapter 29: Burns
Chapter 30: Musculoskeletal Trauma and Nontraumatic Fractures
Chapter 31: Head Trauma
Chapter 32: Spinal Trauma and Spine Motion Restriction
Chapter 33: Eye, Face, and Neck Trauma
Chapter 34: Chest Trauma
Chapter 35: Abdominal and Genitourinary Trauma
Chapter 36: Multisystem Trauma and Trauma in Special Patient Populations
Chapter 37: Obstetrics and Care of the Newborn
Chapter 38: Pediatrics
Chapter 39: Geriatrics
Chapter 40: Patients with Special Challenges
Chapter 41: The Combat Veteran
Chapter 42: Ambulance Operations and Air Medical Response
Chapter 43: Gaining Access and Patient Extrication
Chapter 44: Hazardous Materials
Chapter 45: Multiple-Casualty Incidents and Incident Management
Chapter 46: EMS Response to Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction
, Test Bank for Prehospital Emergency Care 11th Edition
Chapter 1 Emergency Care Systems, Research, and Public Health
1) What is a primary purpose of the modern-day EMS system?
A) Provide a means of transport to and from the hospital
B) Ensure that all members of society have equal access to hospitals
C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and illness
D) Provide emergency health care services to medically underserved areas
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 7
Objective: 1-2
2) Most authorities agree that the modern-day EMS system evolved after the release of which
document?
A) The Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern
Society" in 1966
C) The American Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiac Resuscitation
D) Emergency Medical Services: Agenda for the Future, in 1996
Answer: B
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 3
Objective: 1-2
3) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that he would like to work for
your emergency ambulance service on a full-time basis. Knowing the National EMS Scope of
Practice Model, you inform him of which element?
A) He will be able to take care of only patients with non-life-threatening complaints
B) He will first need approval from your ambulance service's medical director
C) He will be able to work only with an Advanced EMT or paramedic
D) He will first have to become an Emergency Medical Technician
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Objective: 1-1
4) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of EMS
practitioners include:
A) Ambulance drivers
B) EMS medical director
C) Paramedics
D) Emergency medical dispatchers
Answer: C
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Objective: 1-3
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5) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that he is interested in
becoming an EMT. Specifically, he asks what he will be able to do as an EMT that he cannot
presently do as an EMR. You respond by saying he will be able to:
A) Administer some medications
B) Assist in emergency childbirth
C) Use an automated external defibrillator
D) Obtain vital signs
Answer: A
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Objective: 1-5
6) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest. Emergency Medical
Responders (EMRs) are on scene. In your community, all EMS practitioners are trained
according to the National EMS Scope of Practice Model. Given this, which type of care do you
expect the EMRs to be providing?
A) Emergency medication administration
B) Automated external defibrillation
C) Intravenous therapy
D) Reading an electrocardiogram
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6
Objective: 1-5
7) An EMT with your service states that she desires to become a paramedic because she wants to
provide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, which one of these
types of care will she be able to provide as a paramedic that she cannot provide as an EMT?
A) Automated blood pressure monitoring
B) Assistance with emergency childbirth
C) Interfacility transports
D) IV therapy
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 7
Objective: 1-5
8) Which statement made by an EMT requires immediate intervention by a superior or the
service supervisor?
A) "I always wear my seat belt whenever I am in the patient compartment of the ambulance,
unless I have to remove it to care for a patient."
B) "I drive as fast as I can to get to the scene of an emergency, especially if a child is sick or
injured according to dispatch information."
C) "When I am driving with lights and sirens, I instruct my partner that he will need to handle all
radio communications."
D) "I put exam gloves on for every patient I contact, even if he or she does not have a known or
suspected infectious disease."
Answer: B
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 9
Objective: 1-7
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