Test Bank For Prehospital Emergency Care 12th Edition by Mistovich & Karren| 978-0138223861| All Chapters 1-46| LATEST

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Prehospital Emergency Care, 12th Edition by Joseph J. Mistovich Keith J Karren Brent Q. Hafen
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Chapter 1-44 b


Chapter 1 Emergency Medical Service Systems, Research, and Public Health
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1) What is a primary purpose of the modern-day EMS system?
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A) Provide a means of transport to and from the hospital
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B) Ensure that all members of society have equal access to hospitals
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C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and illness
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D) Provide emergency health care services to medically underserved areas Answer:
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Objective: 1-2 b




2) Most authorities agree that the modern-
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day EMS system evolved after the release of which document?
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A) The Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
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B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society," i
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n 1966 b b


C) The American Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiac Resuscitation
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D) Emergency Medical Services: Agenda for the Future, in 1996 Answer: b b b b b b b b b


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Objective: 1-2 b




3) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that they would like to work for yo
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ur emergency ambulance service on a full-
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time basis. Knowing the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, you inform them of which ele
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ment they need to attain first?
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A) They will be able to take care of only patients with non-life-threatening complaints.
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B) They will first need approval from your ambulance service's medical director.
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C) They will be able to work only with an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)
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or Paramedic.
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D) They will first have to become an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Answer:
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Objective: 1-1 b


4) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of EMS practitione
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rs include:
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A) Ambulance drivers. b


B) EMS medical director. b b


C) Paramedics.
D) Emergency medical dispatchers. Answer: b b b




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5) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that they are interested i
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bn becoming an EMT. Specifically, they ask what they will be able to do as an EMT that they ca
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bnnot presently do as an EMR. You respond by saying they will be able to:
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A) Administer some medications. b b


B) Assist in emergency childbirth. b b b


C) Use an automated external defibrillator.
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D) Obtain vital signs b b


. Answer: A
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Objective: 1-5

6) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-
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old female in cardiac arrest. Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs) are on the scene. In yo
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ur community, all EMS practitioners are trained according to the National EMS Scope of Pra
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ctice Model. Given this, which type of care do you expect the EMRs to be providing?
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A) Emergency medication administration b b


B) Automated external defibrillation b b


C) Intravenous therapy b


D) Reading an b


electrocardiogram Answer: B
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Objective: 1-5

7) An EMT with your service states that they desire to become a Paramedic because they want
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to provide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, which one of the
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se types of care will they be able to provide as a Paramedic that they cannot provide as an EM
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T?
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A) Use of an automated blood pressure monitoring
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B) Assistance with emergency childbirth b b b


C) Providing interfacility transports b b


D) Initiating intravenous (IV) therap b b b


y Answer: D
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Objective: 1-5

8) Which statement made by an EMT requires immediate intervention by a superior or the servi
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ce supervisor?
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A) "I always wear my seat belt whenever I am in the patient compartment of the ambulance, unle
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ss I have to remove it to care for a patient."
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B) "I drive as fast as I can to get to the scene of an emergency, especially if a child is sick or injur
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ed according to dispatch information."
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C) "When I am driving with lights and sirens, I instruct my partner that he will need to handle
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all radio communications."
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D) "I put exam gloves on for every patient I contact, even if he or she does not have a known
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or suspected infectious disease."
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Answer: B

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