Edit · OCEMS Ambulance Driver / Attendant Course quiz

Three types of receiving centers in the county

Trauma, Cardiovascular, Stroke

Can you initiate CPR using an Autopulse or Lucas in the county

Yes

Can you administer naloxone

Yes

Can you obtain blood glucose and administer oral glucose

Yes

Can you place a 12-lead and interpret it

No

Can you extricate an entrapped person

Yes; try before you pry, simple extrication

Can you perform MCI field triage

Yes

Can you use an EMS approved mechanical tourniquet for uncontrolled bleeding

Yes

Can you use an EMS county-approved hemostatic powder to assist in wound hemorrhage

No; you can not use powders, only bandages

Can you transport pt with saline and/or lactated ringer hanging in an IV at a set rate

Yes. Basically everybody

Can you transport pt someone with preexisting vascular device, such as a saline or heparin lock

Yes

Can you transport pt who is mechanically restrained

Yes

Can you transport someone w/ a trach tube, g-tube, and central line w/ medications in place

No; you can transport patient with central line w/o medication as long as it is not placed in the arterial vein

What does Albuterol do

Bronchodilator

Contraindications for nitroglycerins

Sexual enhancing drugs, blood pressure

Dose for aspirin we can administer

81 mg - 325 mg

Is the "right physician" one of the seven rights

NO

Oral glucose reading when administering oral glucose

below 60 mg/dL

How to administer naloxone

Intranasally for suspected opioid OD

Suctioning an ET tube

On the way out for no more than 15 seconds in the county.

Inaccurate reading in a pulse ox

Nail polish, shaking, hypothermia

When to obtain a blood glucose measurement

ALOC, h/x of diabetes

Where do you administer a duodote

Anterior mid-thigh

Can you honor a properly completed pulse for someone in cardiac arrest

Yes

Three IV drugs you monitor and maintain during a BLS transport when preset by nurse/physician

TPN, vitamins, folic acid, and thiamine; NO monitoring for morphine, insulin, nitroglycerin, epi drip, ativan drip

Criteria for SMR C-spine

Just a collar (SMR) = up and walking around when you get on scene

Can you administer naloxone

Yes

Can you administer CPAP

Yes

Can you administer epi

Yes

Can you initiate albuterol

You can assist but not initiate

If you want to get OC accreditation

Do it through email and online

Patient that is stable and does not need a specialty center can pick their own hospital

Yes

Does a PCR need to be posted before you leave a receiving center

Yes

Are you responsible for patient care documentation according to your agency's policy

Yes

Is the PCR an illegal document if it contains unapproved abbreviations

Yes

Can an EMT document procedures and medications performed by a paramedic

Yes

Whose responsibility to write down all the procedures

The paramedic's. It's not your responsibility to document the paramedic scope of practice

Can you use AED

Yes

Can you apply traction splint for a femur fracture

Yes

Can you assist a patient with aspirin and nitro

Yes

Can you assist a patient with their controlled analgesic (pain killer) pump

No

IN naloxone methods

1. Plunger: 4.0 mg in one nostril

2. Atomizer: 2 mg one per nostril