Critical Care Transport Exam With 100%
Correct Answers
Perfusionist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What additional healthcare provider may become part of
the transport team during the transport of a patient receiving extracorporeal membrane
oxygenation (ECMO)?
Igor Sikorsky - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Who invented the helicopter?
Resilience - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A person's ability to withstand negative pressure or "bounce
back" from difficulties is known as:
Specialty Care Transport - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔CMS defines __________ as the use of
specialized equipment and specialized training beyond the paramedic scope of practice to
manage critically ill patients from facility to facility.
The state agency responsible for licensure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What agency dictates CCTPs'
scope of practice?
1869 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When was the United States' first city ambulance service
established?
Intra-aoritic balloon pump (IABP) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Which of the following will indicate to
dispatch that the interfacility transport requires critical care transport?
Rotor-wing transport - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A STEMI patient with three vasoactive
medications infusing in a community hospital that is 10 miles away, 45 minutes with current
traffic, would be a candidate for which mode of transportation?
,Stress - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔__________ is the reaction of the mind and body to demand for
change.
Bellevue Hospital - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Who initiated the first ambulance service in a US
major metropolitan area?
Generate data and improve the service provided - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is the purpose of
a quality assurance and improvement (QA&I) program?
Get an understanding of the underlying issue - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The three steeps of the
QA&I process are to define quality, collect and gather data, and:
Mandatory competency training - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔How do critical care transport services
ensure that their providers maintain proficiency?
Baltimore, Maryland - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Where did the first public services medevac
program start?
Fixed-wing transport - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A 3-month old patient in Louisville, Kentucky, has a
unique heart condition that requires an intervention that is currently only performed at the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. What is the best mode of transportation for this patient?
Benchmarking - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Providing data from your transport system and
participating in a database that compares it to other transport systems is:
Hot air balloon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What vehicle was utilized in 1870 during the Prussian
Siege of Paris as the first documented case of air medical transport?
,NCLEX-RN - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What exam must candidates pass in order to obtain nursing
licensure?
Specialty Care Transport - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Which type of transport is the most expensive
to operate?
Two healthcare facilities - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Interfacility transport is the transport of a
patient between:
Continuous monitoring and drugs of equipment required to sustain life - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Critical care is the management of patients with life-threatening conditions that
requires:
The 11th century, during the Crusades - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When was the movement of
injured patients first recorded?
Denver, Colorado - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Where was the first hospital-based air ambulance
program developed?
The dispatcher - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is the first point of contact for the rotor-wing
critical care team?
Arab and Greek Physicians - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Who taught the Knights of St. John first aid
procedures?
Contact the receiving facilities physician - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔How do you manage a patient
when a sending physician refuses to allow you to treat a patient appropriately according to your
protocols?
, Medical command physician orders - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is necessary for a CCTP to act
outside of his or her protocols?
Perform basic resuscitation, then seek clarification - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔During the hand-off
report from the transferring nurse, he tells you that the patient has a DNR and only wants
comfort measures performed. En-route, the patient codes but you are unable to find the
patient's DNR in the chart. How do you manage the cardiac arrest?
Laboratory and diagnostic tests - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔__________ may be disclosed for
payment and insurance reasons.
EMTALA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What guidelines determine the appropriate level of care for
transportation?
Receiving facility physician - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔In preparation for transport, the sending
facility physician must have identified and communicated with a __________ in order to initiate
the patient transfer.
The physician assistant - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The transferring neonatal orders a neonatal
physician assistant to your transport team for the transfer of an 1,800-g neonate with an
intraventricular hemorrhage and hydrocephalus. What dictates the management of the
patient's care during this transport?
The sending facility cannot perform the needed interventions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When is it
acceptable to transfer an unstable patient from a facility?
When a patient arrives on hospital property - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When is a hospital bound
by EMTALA regulations?
Battery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What did you witness if you see a patient's spouse strike the
patient's face with an open hand across the cheak?
Correct Answers
Perfusionist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What additional healthcare provider may become part of
the transport team during the transport of a patient receiving extracorporeal membrane
oxygenation (ECMO)?
Igor Sikorsky - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Who invented the helicopter?
Resilience - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A person's ability to withstand negative pressure or "bounce
back" from difficulties is known as:
Specialty Care Transport - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔CMS defines __________ as the use of
specialized equipment and specialized training beyond the paramedic scope of practice to
manage critically ill patients from facility to facility.
The state agency responsible for licensure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What agency dictates CCTPs'
scope of practice?
1869 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When was the United States' first city ambulance service
established?
Intra-aoritic balloon pump (IABP) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Which of the following will indicate to
dispatch that the interfacility transport requires critical care transport?
Rotor-wing transport - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A STEMI patient with three vasoactive
medications infusing in a community hospital that is 10 miles away, 45 minutes with current
traffic, would be a candidate for which mode of transportation?
,Stress - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔__________ is the reaction of the mind and body to demand for
change.
Bellevue Hospital - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Who initiated the first ambulance service in a US
major metropolitan area?
Generate data and improve the service provided - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is the purpose of
a quality assurance and improvement (QA&I) program?
Get an understanding of the underlying issue - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The three steeps of the
QA&I process are to define quality, collect and gather data, and:
Mandatory competency training - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔How do critical care transport services
ensure that their providers maintain proficiency?
Baltimore, Maryland - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Where did the first public services medevac
program start?
Fixed-wing transport - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A 3-month old patient in Louisville, Kentucky, has a
unique heart condition that requires an intervention that is currently only performed at the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. What is the best mode of transportation for this patient?
Benchmarking - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Providing data from your transport system and
participating in a database that compares it to other transport systems is:
Hot air balloon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What vehicle was utilized in 1870 during the Prussian
Siege of Paris as the first documented case of air medical transport?
,NCLEX-RN - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What exam must candidates pass in order to obtain nursing
licensure?
Specialty Care Transport - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Which type of transport is the most expensive
to operate?
Two healthcare facilities - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Interfacility transport is the transport of a
patient between:
Continuous monitoring and drugs of equipment required to sustain life - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Critical care is the management of patients with life-threatening conditions that
requires:
The 11th century, during the Crusades - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When was the movement of
injured patients first recorded?
Denver, Colorado - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Where was the first hospital-based air ambulance
program developed?
The dispatcher - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is the first point of contact for the rotor-wing
critical care team?
Arab and Greek Physicians - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Who taught the Knights of St. John first aid
procedures?
Contact the receiving facilities physician - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔How do you manage a patient
when a sending physician refuses to allow you to treat a patient appropriately according to your
protocols?
, Medical command physician orders - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is necessary for a CCTP to act
outside of his or her protocols?
Perform basic resuscitation, then seek clarification - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔During the hand-off
report from the transferring nurse, he tells you that the patient has a DNR and only wants
comfort measures performed. En-route, the patient codes but you are unable to find the
patient's DNR in the chart. How do you manage the cardiac arrest?
Laboratory and diagnostic tests - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔__________ may be disclosed for
payment and insurance reasons.
EMTALA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What guidelines determine the appropriate level of care for
transportation?
Receiving facility physician - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔In preparation for transport, the sending
facility physician must have identified and communicated with a __________ in order to initiate
the patient transfer.
The physician assistant - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The transferring neonatal orders a neonatal
physician assistant to your transport team for the transfer of an 1,800-g neonate with an
intraventricular hemorrhage and hydrocephalus. What dictates the management of the
patient's care during this transport?
The sending facility cannot perform the needed interventions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When is it
acceptable to transfer an unstable patient from a facility?
When a patient arrives on hospital property - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When is a hospital bound
by EMTALA regulations?
Battery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What did you witness if you see a patient's spouse strike the
patient's face with an open hand across the cheak?
