Paramedic Exam Comprehensive EMS Practice Questions with Verified Answers

CPR AND FIRST AID NEWEST ACTUAL
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWER
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1. When communicating with an elderly patient, you should:

A. approach the patient slowly and calmly.: A. approach the patient slowly and calmly

2. While caring for a 5-year-old boy with respiratory distress, you should:
D. allow a parent or caregiver to hold the child if the situation allows: D.
allow a parent or caregiver to hold the child if the situation allows


3. Which of the following pieces of patient information is of LEAST
pertinence when giving a verbal report to a nurse or physician at the
hospital?

B. The patient's family medical history: B. The patient's family medical history


4. Which of the following statements about the patient care report (PCR) i
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tr
ue?

C. It helps ensure efficient continuity of patient care.: C. It helps ensure eflcient
continuity of patient care.


5. A device that receives a low frequency and then transmits it at a
relatively higher frequency is called a:

C. repeater.: C. repeater
6. The success of communications depends on the:

C. efficiency of the equipment.: C. eflciency of the equipment


7. All of the following are functions of the emergency medical
dispatcher, EX- CEPT:

D. providing medical direction to the EMT in the field.: D. providing medical direction
to the
EMT in the field.


8. After receiving an order from medical control over the radio. the EMT
should:
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