UPDATED Test Bank for Prehospital Emergency Care, 12th Edition by Mistovich & Karren: Complete Chapter 1-44 Q&A with Answer Keys

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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 are
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asAnswer: C
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2) Most authorities agree that the modern-
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day EMS system evolved after the release of whichdocument?
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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 Mode
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rnSociety" 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 19 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1


96Answer: B
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3) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that he would like to work f
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or your emergency ambulance service on a full-
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time ba s. Knowing the National EMS Scope ofPractice Model, you inform him of which
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element?
A) He will be able to take care of only patients with non-life-threatening complaints
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B) He will first need approval from your ambulance service's medical director
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C) He will be able to work only with an Advanced EMT or paramedic
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D) He will first have to become an Emergency Medical Technici
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anAnswer: D
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4) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of E
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C) Paramedics
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sAnswer: C
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,5) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that he is interested
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inbecoming an EMT. Specifically, he asks what he will be able to do as an EMT that he ca
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nnot presently do as an EMR. You respond by saying he will be able to:
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C) Use an automated external defibrillator
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6) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-
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old female in cardiac arrest. Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs) are on scene. In your
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community, all EMS practitioners are trained according to the National EMS Scope of Pract
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ice Model. Given this, which type of care do youexpect the EMRs to be providing?
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7) An EMT with your service states that she de res to become a paramedic because she wants
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toprovide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, which one of th
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ese types of care will she be able to provide as a paramedic that she cannot provide as an EM
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yAnswer: D
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8) Which statement made by an EMT requires immediate intervention by a superior or
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theservice supervisor?
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A) "I always wear my seat belt whenever I am in the patient compartment of the ambula
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nce,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 c
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k orinjured according to dispatch information."
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C) "When I am driving with lights and rens, I instruct my partner that he will need to handle
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1allradio 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 know
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n orsuspected infectious disease."
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