EMERGENCY CARE AND TRANSPORTATION OF
THE SICK AND INJURED 2026 MOCK PAPER
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW NOTES ANALYTICAL
SUMMARY
◉ What six things are necessary to achieve EMT certification?
Answer: High school diploma, immunization, background
check/drug screening, required courses/exams, drivers license,
mental/physical abilities
◉ What is EMS?
Answer: Team of health care professionals responsible for
emergency care and transportation of sick and injured
◉ Which level of government controls certification, licensure, and
credentialing of EMS personnel?
Answer: State government
◉ How are EMTs usually certified?
Answer: Take NREMT exam
◉ What is the NREMT's Practice Analysis?
,Answer: Survey conducted every five years to document trends in
real-world prehospital care
◉ Which organization establishes national, general guidelines
recommended for EMS education?
Answer: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
◉ What are five practices that EMT students are taught?
Answer: Scene size-up, patient assessment, treatment, transport,
EMS as a career
◉ What are two functions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990?
Answer: Protects the disabled from receiving government programs
and services, prohibits employers from failing to provide full and
equal employment to the disabled
◉ When were emergency medical services first developed by the
US?
Answer: WWI
◉ What the main development of emergency care during WWI?
Answer: Volunteer ambulances
,◉ What are three other wars where emergency medical services
continued to evolve?
Answer: WWII, Korea, Vietnam
◉ What the main development of emergency care during WWII?
Answer: Field care
◉ What were two major developments of emergency care during the
Korean war?
Answer: Field medics, rapid helicopter evacuation
◉ What are four details concerning pre-EMS prehospital care in the
USA before the revolution of EMS systems in the 1960s?
Answer: Service varied widely, provided by funeral home, gave first
aid while going to the hospital, most hospitals didn't have an ED
◉ Which book prompted the formalization of US EMS systems in
1966?
Answer: Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of
Modern Society
◉ What are two legislations that prompted the formalization of US
EMS systems?
, Answer: Highway Safety Act of 1966, Emergency Medical Services
Development Act of 1973
◉ When did the DOT publish their first guideline curriculum for
EMT training?
Answer: Early 1970s
◉ What are two details concerning the National Standard
Curriculum?
Answer: Released by DOT in late 1970s, guideline for paramedic
education
◉ What important document created in 1973 created funding
sources for EMS?
Answer: Emergency Medical Service Act of 1973
◉ When were AEMTs introduced in the USA?
Answer: 1980s
◉ When was the NHSTA create the EMS Agenda for the Future?
Answer: 1990s
◉ When was the EMS Agenda 2050 published?
THE SICK AND INJURED 2026 MOCK PAPER
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW NOTES ANALYTICAL
SUMMARY
◉ What six things are necessary to achieve EMT certification?
Answer: High school diploma, immunization, background
check/drug screening, required courses/exams, drivers license,
mental/physical abilities
◉ What is EMS?
Answer: Team of health care professionals responsible for
emergency care and transportation of sick and injured
◉ Which level of government controls certification, licensure, and
credentialing of EMS personnel?
Answer: State government
◉ How are EMTs usually certified?
Answer: Take NREMT exam
◉ What is the NREMT's Practice Analysis?
,Answer: Survey conducted every five years to document trends in
real-world prehospital care
◉ Which organization establishes national, general guidelines
recommended for EMS education?
Answer: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
◉ What are five practices that EMT students are taught?
Answer: Scene size-up, patient assessment, treatment, transport,
EMS as a career
◉ What are two functions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990?
Answer: Protects the disabled from receiving government programs
and services, prohibits employers from failing to provide full and
equal employment to the disabled
◉ When were emergency medical services first developed by the
US?
Answer: WWI
◉ What the main development of emergency care during WWI?
Answer: Volunteer ambulances
,◉ What are three other wars where emergency medical services
continued to evolve?
Answer: WWII, Korea, Vietnam
◉ What the main development of emergency care during WWII?
Answer: Field care
◉ What were two major developments of emergency care during the
Korean war?
Answer: Field medics, rapid helicopter evacuation
◉ What are four details concerning pre-EMS prehospital care in the
USA before the revolution of EMS systems in the 1960s?
Answer: Service varied widely, provided by funeral home, gave first
aid while going to the hospital, most hospitals didn't have an ED
◉ Which book prompted the formalization of US EMS systems in
1966?
Answer: Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of
Modern Society
◉ What are two legislations that prompted the formalization of US
EMS systems?
, Answer: Highway Safety Act of 1966, Emergency Medical Services
Development Act of 1973
◉ When did the DOT publish their first guideline curriculum for
EMT training?
Answer: Early 1970s
◉ What are two details concerning the National Standard
Curriculum?
Answer: Released by DOT in late 1970s, guideline for paramedic
education
◉ What important document created in 1973 created funding
sources for EMS?
Answer: Emergency Medical Service Act of 1973
◉ When were AEMTs introduced in the USA?
Answer: 1980s
◉ When was the NHSTA create the EMS Agenda for the Future?
Answer: 1990s
◉ When was the EMS Agenda 2050 published?
