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

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,Chapter 1 m 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
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areas Answer: C
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2) Most authorities agree that the modern-day EMS system evolved after the release of
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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
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Society," in 1966
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C) The American Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiac Resuscitation
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D) Emergency Medical Services: Agenda for the Future, in
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1996 Answer: B
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3) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that they would like to work
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mfor your emergency ambulance service on a full-time basis. Knowing the National EMS
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mScope of Practice Model, you inform them of which element 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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mor Paramedic.
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D) They will first have to become an Emergency Medical Technician
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4) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of EMS
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practitioners include:
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C) Paramedics.
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5) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that they are interested
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in becoming an EMT. Specifically, they ask what they will be able to do as an EMT that they
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cannot presently do as an EMR. You respond by saying they will be able to:
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A) Administer some medications. m m


B) Assist in emergency childbirth.
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C) Use an automated external defibrillator.
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D) Obtain vital m


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6) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest. Emergency Medical
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mResponders (EMRs) are on the scene. In your community, all EMS practitioners are trained
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maccording to the National EMS Scope of Practice Model. Given this, which type of care do
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myou expect the EMRs to be providing?
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7) An EMT with your service states that they desire to become a Paramedic because they
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want to provide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, which
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mone of these types of care will they be able to provide as a Paramedic that they cannot
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mprovide as an EMT? m m m


A) Use of an automated blood pressure monitoring
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8) Which statement made by an EMT requires immediate intervention by a superior or the
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service supervisor?
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A) "I always wear my seat belt whenever I am in the patient compartment of the ambulance,
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unless 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
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injured 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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mall 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
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mknown or suspected infectious disease."
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