Chapter 1 & 3

The NHTSA technical assistance program assessment standards for EMS systems address the resource management component by stating that each state must provide a centralized coordination of resources to ensure that:

All patients have equal access to acceptable emergency care

The term that has to do with patients who are significantly overweight or obese is:

Bariatric

The safest and MOST efficient methods for using ones body to facilitate lifting and moving are called:

Body machanics

The expectation that an EMT will demonstrate good listening skills is considered a personal trait involving

Emphathy

if the weight is below your waist level, what is the proper position for pushing or pulling?

From a kneeling position

EMRs are generally trained to provide:

Immediate care for life-threating injuries

Which of the following is an advantage of a vacuum mattress?

It naturally pads voids for greater comfort

To use your legs instead of your back to lift, you must:

Keep the weight close to your body

After WWII, who was the person who usually provided ambulance transportation?

Local undertakers

Of the 2 types of spine boards, the one used for the transport of patients in the spine position is the:

Long spine board

An important key to preventing injury while lifting or moving​ is:

Not compensating when lifting with one hand

You arrive on scene and assess the need for a bariatric ambulance to transport of patient because the patient is:

Obese

Orders from the on-duty physician given by radio or phone use referred to as :

On-line medical direction

You and your partner decide to use a short-backboard to immobilize a patient. This patient is:

Possibly injured in the neck or spine

Which of the following techniques is used by power weight lifters?

Power lifts

Which of the following is recommended when moving something heavy?

Pushing

What is the LEAST likely to be an aspect of carefully and thoroughly documenting an emergency call?

Speculation

When executing a power lift, to keep the weight as close to your body as possible

Straddle it if possible

EMS has a role in many public health issues including?

Vaccination programs

In a public health emergency, an example of work EMS provides may assist with, if authorizes by state law is:

Vaccination programs

Citizen who has fallen, you make observations about slippery rugs in living room floor, bring this attention of the patient and their family. This is an example of being:

a self-starter

In transfer of care, it is important to provide

continuity of care

The modern EMS system in the U.S began in

1960s

When lifting a stretcher or backboard, which of the following is the best number of people to use?

4

An EMTs role in the quality improvement process is:

A part of every call for the EMT

Quality improvement should be:

Active

The NHTSA transportation standard, a critical component is safely and reliability of:

Ambulance transportation

You are taking care of a patient who has been assigned to you during a mass casualty incident. In communicating with patient, you should:

Be measured and controlled

Which of the following techniques will NOT contribute to the safe and efficient movement of a patient from an upstairs bedroom to the ambulance?

Calling for assistance only if you find that you and your partner cannot lift the patient

When lifting, keep the weight

Close to your body

A method of transferring a patient from bed to stretcher during which two or more rescuers curl the patient to their chests, the reverse the process to lower the patient to the stretcher is:

Direct carry

Examining the reports of a crew that was on a call involving a patient with a communicable​ disease, (bacterial​ meningitis) would be an example of a health​ department's role​ in:

Disease surveillance

When assessing a patient, you quickly decide that it is the patients best interest for you to do an emergency move. Which of the following is NOT an indication for an emergency move?

Dispatch is holding calls for you community

In which quality improvements activity does the EMT participate MOST often?

Documentation

When preforming a one-rescuer drag down stair, you should:

Drag the patients head first

An efficient way of transferring a patient between a hospital and nursing home that uses the patients bed in the transfer is the:

Draw-sheet method

The NREMT is involved in:

EMS curriculum development

An ideal lifting arrangement is:

EMTs of similar strength and height

The 911 dispatchers who are specially trained to give prearrival instructions to callers (how to control bleeding/perform CPR) are called:

Emergency Medical Dispatcher

Which is the useful for narrow hallways but is not used for immobilization of a patient?

Flexible stretcher

During which type of drag should you take care not to bump the patients head?

Foot

Which is the BEST way to transport a patient securely of having a spinal injury?

Fully immobilized with the necessary spinal precautions

Holding an NREMT certification may help you in which of the following situations?

Gaining reciprocity

Which of the following statement is NOT a benefit of using the emergency 911 number during an emergency?

It eliminates the need for EMD

You are involved in a single-car accident on a rural, one-lane road. When you call 911, who is most likely to respond?

Local volunteer EMT

Oversight of the patient-care aspects of an EMS system by the Medical Director is called:

Medical direction

Who can allow EMTs to perform a treatment that is NOT listed in their protocol but is in their scope of practice?

Medical direction

One aspect of quality improvement in which every EMT can participate is?

Participating in continuing education

You respond to a domestic violence call with your partner and the local volunteer fire department. You should regard the fire department volunteers as?

Partners in care who may need guidance from you

What must someone do to gain registration with the National Registry of​ EMTs?

Pass both computer base knowledge/practical hands-on exams

To rescue the highest quality of care, some patients need to be transported to special facilities, such as patients who have been critically burned or had a stroke. Determining what emergency care is appropriate for a patient relates to which areas of EMT responsibility?

Patient Assessment

Which step in the evidence-based medicine process deals with the concept of determining what we already know about a particular intervention or situation?

Searching medical literature

Patient is conscious, no trauma, complaining of dyspnea. Patient is concerned that transport will aggravate the breathing difficulty. What is the BEST position to patient during transport that will address their concern?

Sitting up right in a stair chair

An obese patient is upset that a special stretcher is to be used for him and that you have called for a bariatric ambulance. The BEST way to respond is to explain that:

The equipment enables you to provide the best assessment and care for the patient

What are body mechanics?

The proper use of your body to prevent injury and facilitate lifting and moving

Emergency moves may be necessary if:

There is a threat of fire or possible explosion

How many rescuers are recommended in moving a patient with a stair chair?

Three

Which of the following must be avoided in lifting?

Twisting

When a stretcher is lifted, the number of rescuers lifting from the head and foot of the stretcher should be:

Two people

During a cradle carry, one arm is across the patient back and other:

Under their knees

Before lifting any patient, consider the patients:

Weight

A stair chair should be used in which of the following circumstances?

When traversing narrow corridors and doorways

Safe transport involves:

securing the patient in ambulance

Your patient is a 22 year old female who was involved in a low-speed car crash. Her only complaint is some tenderness in her neck. What is the MOST appropriate way to care for her?

Apply a short backboard while she is seated in the car

Which of the following is LEAST likely to be an area of employment for an EMT?

Chain restaurant

In moving a patient on a stretcher, what is the safest level at which to do so?

Closest to the ground

Forming a plan for lifting and carrying a patient should be

Communicated to your partner before putting the plan into action

What do fire departments require of an employee?

Cross-training as an EMT

Which of the following levels of EMS training was formally called EMT- Basic?

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

In reaching, what should be done everytime?

Have a locked-in back

Which of the following is a common step in evidence-based decision making?

If evidence support a change in practice, change protocols and implement charge

An enhanced 911 system allows the emergency dispatcher to:

Immediately access the phone # and address from which the call is being made

In a fowler or semi-fowler positions, it is normal and not a cause for concern if the patient:

Is in a semi-sitting position

Which of the following is not a desirable personal trait for an EMT?

Judgemental

When pushing or pulling, you should:

Keep the line of pull through the center of your body

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Techinal Assistance Program provides a set of recommended standards for EMS systems for its assessment programs

Medical direction

What is the official name for the physician who assumes responsibility for all patients care aspects within a specific EMS system?

Medical director

Which of the following agencies has established an assessment program with a set of standards for EMS systems?

NHTSA

An emergency move would be permitted in order to change a patients position in a situation in which you :

Need to perform CPR

Which EMT action most likely could provide information important for community health initiatives that are designed to prevent​ injuries?

Observation of the emergency scene

You want to navigate a responsive patient down several narrow, curving stairways. You want to transport the patient in a sitting position, which means you use a:

Stair chair

Which of the following best describes off-line medical direction?

Standing orders issued by the medical director that allows EMTs to give certain meds or perform certain procedures