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Quarter One: Test Question Guide

What does the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians do?

  • Provide a standard for EMT testing

Whose approval do we need before we can administer aspirin/any drug?

  • The Medical Director

An action that can be performed without any direction:

  • Is self-motivated

What does EMS do?

  • Provide care and transportation of the sick and injured.

How did we prove that surgical care trumps care on the scene?

  • Research and clinical trials

Medics are performing endotracheal intubation:

  • Should be wearing PPE including gloves, goggles, face shields

Down electrical wires at a scene:

  • Mark off the area called a danger zone to prevent others from harm
  • Do not enter until the scene is safe

How to manage stress as an EMT:

  • Talk to coworkers as therapy
  • Remove yourself from the EMS world

What does quid pro quo mean?

  • This for that, in terms of workplace harassment
  • Type of sexual harassment: sexual favors in exchange for promotion etc.

Blood on the scene, caused you to get a disease:

  • Bloodborne pathogen transmission
  • Secondary exposure
  • Indirect contact

What should I wear anytime on a roadway?

  • A mandated fluorescent vest

What does a privacy officer do?

  • Handle all HIPAA and patient privacy

When can you release the patient’s medical information?

  • Being subpoenaed in court
  • When a competent patient signs a release form

What do you need to prove negligence?

  • Duty to act
  • Breach of duty
  • Causation
  • Harm to the patient: damages, injury

Who determines your organization’s scope of practice?

  • The Medical Director

What should you NOT do when you are trying to communicate with someone who is hard of hearing?

  • Do NOT speak loudly and in an exaggerated manner
  • DO speak calmly, clearly, and with your face toward them

You get an order from a Medical Director and don’t think it's correct:

  • Ask for them to clarify or repeat it

You can be sued for defamation because of:

  • Slander: Spoken
  • Libel: Written

Things that may be taken up with the authorities:

  • Sexual abuse/assault
  • Domestic abuse/assault
  • Animal bites
  • Gunshot wounds

A person laying face down:

  • Prone

A patient has two femurs broken:

  • Describe his injuries as bilateral

What does gastroenteritis mean? What does gastro mean?

  • Stomach

What structures of the body do not contain smooth muscle?

  • The cardiac system

What does the systolic blood pressure tell you?

  • Pressure during the heartbeat

Baby with a respiratory rate of 30?

  • Normal
  • Range of 30-50

Communicating with an older patient:

  • Be calm, confident, and project authority
  • Approach them slowly and be professional

Early adults:

  • The period when fitness begins to decline
  • Weight gain begins at this stage

Older adults:

  • May have posture and spinal issues
  • Tend to have kyphosis and spondylosis

A woman is around 34 weeks pregnant:

  • Move the patient by rolling them to their left side
  • Due to the placement of the inferior vena cava on the right side

What do I do with somebody that I suspect has a cervical/spinal injury?

  • On a backboard

When lifting:

  • Bend at your knees with your back straight
  • Lift things up in the power position with the power grip

Taking a patient down a flight of stairs secured on a backboard:

  • Put the stronger person at the head since more weight is in the torso

Down with a call and the patient may have had an infection/cooties:

  • Disinfect and decontaminate to the best of my ability

Got a very heavy patient:

  • Ask for additional resources
  • Know your own limits
  • Plan by looking at them
  • Think before you move
  • Have a team leader speaking calmly in plain language

Semiconscious patient seated in a car:

  • Immobilize the patient’s head with manual inline support

A patient that needs to be restrained:

  • One arm tied up above his head
  • Another arm tied downward

Conscious patient able to function found in a chair, how to transport downstairs?

  • In a stair chair

Most of a patient’s weight is where?

  • In their torso

With a patient in ER, have to go to another scene:

  • Must transfer care to a higher or equal authority

Suffixes meaning 2:

  • Bi
  • Dipple

Term pericardiocentesis:

  • a procedure performed to remove pericardial fluid from the pericardial sac

Muscular that forms the inferior boundary of the thorax:

  • Diaphragm

Kidneys make urine and send the urine to the urinary bladder through:

  • Ureters

Middle Adults:

  • 40-60 years old
  • Have to worry about own retirement
  • Have to worry about children’s college
  • Have to worry about parent’s health and situation

Parts of the spine:

  • 7 cervical
  • 12 thoracic
  • 5 lumbar
  • Sacrum, coccyx

Lymphatic system:

  • Goes through the whole body
  • Distributes lymph and aids in immune response
  • Drains waste away
  • Moves through muscle action
  • Moves things away and from cells like blood
  • Does not follow the arteries