NYS EMT END OF COURSE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔In placing the hands on an adult patient's sternum to perform CPR, the EMS
Provider should: - ✔✔Hold the fingers outward and slightly away from the chest wall.
*USE YOUR HANDS AND LITERALLY COPY WHAT THE ANSWER CHOICES SAY*
✔✔While performing resuscitation on an infant or a child, you should ventilate every: -
✔✔3 seconds or 20 times a minute
✔✔You have attempted to insert a nasopharyngeal airway into the right nostril of the
patient, but have encountered resistance. You should: - ✔✔Re-lubricate the tube and
try the other nostril.
✔✔Adequate ventilation volume using a bag valve mask may require the
EMT/Paramedic to: - ✔✔Have a second EMS provider squeeze the bag completely.
✔✔The purpose of the first set of vital signs is to: - ✔✔Establish a baseline for
additional *IMPORTANT*
✔✔Any physical examination of a patient should begin with: - ✔✔Inspection
✔✔All of the following are part of the respiratory system EXCEPT
A) trachea
B) larynx
C) esophagus
d) alveoli
e) diaphragm - ✔✔Esophagus
✔✔A patient has been involved in a motorcycle accident. The patient is cyanotic, with
rapid shallow respirations at a rate of 32 per minute, unequal chest expansion, and
diminished breath sounds. The MOST APPROPRIATE device for delivering treatment is
a: - ✔✔Bag-valve mask with a reservoir and supplemental oxygen. (This answer is
better than a regular BVM because the reservoir will help the BVM get more/higher
concentration of oxygen) *IMPORTANT*
✔✔You are suctioning a trauma patient who has large blood clots present in the mouth.
You should: - ✔✔Sweep the clots out of the mouth before suctioning.
✔✔Bleeding due to a laceration in the neck may threaten the patient's life because. -
✔✔Air may enter the blood vessel, making the patient prone to air embolism.
, ✔✔A distinguishing trait of arterial bleeding is that it: - ✔✔Flows from the wound in
distinct spurts *IMPORTANT*
✔✔If bleeding to an extremity does not stop with application of direct pressure and
pressure dressing, the next step is to: - ✔✔Apply a tourniquet.
✔✔The principal cause of hypoperfusion (shock) in a victim with a massive burns is loss
of: - ✔✔Plasma *IMPORTANT*
✔✔The BEST indication of brain perfusion in a shock victim is the patient's: - ✔✔Mental
status
✔✔What are the four signs and symptoms of hypoperfusion (shock) - ✔✔Rapid weak
pulse, perspiration, pallor, shallow breathing (this is compensated shock)
✔✔A localized soft-tissue injury characterized by swelling and bruising is called a/an: -
✔✔Contusion
✔✔A pressure dressing may require loosening if: - ✔✔No distal pulse is found
✔✔One of the functions of the skeletal system is: - ✔✔Protect the body
✔✔A closed bone or joint injury (Definition) is BEST defined as an injury: - ✔✔In which
there is no break in the continuity of the skin.
✔✔The treatment of a trauma victim who has a hip/joint injury is to: - ✔✔Apply padded
board splints and a long spine board
✔✔The MOST SERIOUS problem associated with an injury to a joint is that this type of
injury: - ✔✔Is frequently accompanied by nerve and vascular damage.
✔✔As a general rule, joint injuries should be: - ✔✔Splinted in the position that it's found
in. You manipulate it to regain a pulse.
✔✔To control a nosebleed in a patient without suspected spinal trauma, the EMS
Provider should - ✔✔Pinch the patients nostrils together and sit the patient leaning
forward to lower drainage
✔✔Loss of voice, severe airway obstruction, and air leakage into the soft tissue of the
neck can result from an injury to the - ✔✔Trachea
✔✔Chest ribs are connected to the sternum by: - ✔✔Cartilage *IMPORTANT*
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔In placing the hands on an adult patient's sternum to perform CPR, the EMS
Provider should: - ✔✔Hold the fingers outward and slightly away from the chest wall.
*USE YOUR HANDS AND LITERALLY COPY WHAT THE ANSWER CHOICES SAY*
✔✔While performing resuscitation on an infant or a child, you should ventilate every: -
✔✔3 seconds or 20 times a minute
✔✔You have attempted to insert a nasopharyngeal airway into the right nostril of the
patient, but have encountered resistance. You should: - ✔✔Re-lubricate the tube and
try the other nostril.
✔✔Adequate ventilation volume using a bag valve mask may require the
EMT/Paramedic to: - ✔✔Have a second EMS provider squeeze the bag completely.
✔✔The purpose of the first set of vital signs is to: - ✔✔Establish a baseline for
additional *IMPORTANT*
✔✔Any physical examination of a patient should begin with: - ✔✔Inspection
✔✔All of the following are part of the respiratory system EXCEPT
A) trachea
B) larynx
C) esophagus
d) alveoli
e) diaphragm - ✔✔Esophagus
✔✔A patient has been involved in a motorcycle accident. The patient is cyanotic, with
rapid shallow respirations at a rate of 32 per minute, unequal chest expansion, and
diminished breath sounds. The MOST APPROPRIATE device for delivering treatment is
a: - ✔✔Bag-valve mask with a reservoir and supplemental oxygen. (This answer is
better than a regular BVM because the reservoir will help the BVM get more/higher
concentration of oxygen) *IMPORTANT*
✔✔You are suctioning a trauma patient who has large blood clots present in the mouth.
You should: - ✔✔Sweep the clots out of the mouth before suctioning.
✔✔Bleeding due to a laceration in the neck may threaten the patient's life because. -
✔✔Air may enter the blood vessel, making the patient prone to air embolism.
, ✔✔A distinguishing trait of arterial bleeding is that it: - ✔✔Flows from the wound in
distinct spurts *IMPORTANT*
✔✔If bleeding to an extremity does not stop with application of direct pressure and
pressure dressing, the next step is to: - ✔✔Apply a tourniquet.
✔✔The principal cause of hypoperfusion (shock) in a victim with a massive burns is loss
of: - ✔✔Plasma *IMPORTANT*
✔✔The BEST indication of brain perfusion in a shock victim is the patient's: - ✔✔Mental
status
✔✔What are the four signs and symptoms of hypoperfusion (shock) - ✔✔Rapid weak
pulse, perspiration, pallor, shallow breathing (this is compensated shock)
✔✔A localized soft-tissue injury characterized by swelling and bruising is called a/an: -
✔✔Contusion
✔✔A pressure dressing may require loosening if: - ✔✔No distal pulse is found
✔✔One of the functions of the skeletal system is: - ✔✔Protect the body
✔✔A closed bone or joint injury (Definition) is BEST defined as an injury: - ✔✔In which
there is no break in the continuity of the skin.
✔✔The treatment of a trauma victim who has a hip/joint injury is to: - ✔✔Apply padded
board splints and a long spine board
✔✔The MOST SERIOUS problem associated with an injury to a joint is that this type of
injury: - ✔✔Is frequently accompanied by nerve and vascular damage.
✔✔As a general rule, joint injuries should be: - ✔✔Splinted in the position that it's found
in. You manipulate it to regain a pulse.
✔✔To control a nosebleed in a patient without suspected spinal trauma, the EMS
Provider should - ✔✔Pinch the patients nostrils together and sit the patient leaning
forward to lower drainage
✔✔Loss of voice, severe airway obstruction, and air leakage into the soft tissue of the
neck can result from an injury to the - ✔✔Trachea
✔✔Chest ribs are connected to the sternum by: - ✔✔Cartilage *IMPORTANT*
