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