NYS EMT-B practice questions 3 with verified detailed
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answers
The role of the ems provider is to do all of the following
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EXCEPT:
a. Perform primary assessment
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b. Provide initial resuscitation
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c. Provide definitive diagnosis
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d. Package patients for transportation - ✔✔C
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As a part of infection control procedures, it is ESSENTIAL that the EMS provider:
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a. Dispose of all equipment used after each call
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b. Wash his/her hands after treating each patient
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c. Wash his/her clothes after each patient contact
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d. Avoid casual contact with any patients - ✔✔B
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Another name for the left lateral position is
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a. Semi-fowlers
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b. Trendelenburg
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c. Recovery position
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d. Dorsal recumbent - ✔✔C
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In what position should an unconscious overdose patient be transported to a hospital?
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a. On his/her back, with feet elevated
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b. On his/her side
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c. Seated, with head tilted back and legs elevated
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,d. Facedown, with head elevated - ✔✔B
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A single EMS provider finds a non-breathing and pulseless victim of a motor vehicle accident
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lying face down in the road, and suspects that the victim has a spinal injury. The EMS provider
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should:
a. Do nothing until help arrives
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b. Leave the victim in place and attempt to apply the
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principles of CPR || ||
c. Turn the victim's body as a unit and begin CPR
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d. Apply an extrication collar and attempt to ventilate - ✔✔C
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The pre-hospital care report (PCR) is considered to be
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a. A part of the patients hospital chart
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b. A matter of public records
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c. Inadmissible in a court of law
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d. A research document only - ✔✔A
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When communicating with an elderly patient an EMS
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provider should ||
a. Yell in the patients ear
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b. Speak only to the family
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c. Use written notes
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d. Speak to the patient in a normal voice - ✔✔D
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An EMS provider is called to the scene of an accident and notices conditions, which suggest that
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the patient has been involved in a crime. The EMS Provider should:
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a. Continue patient care and report the incident to the
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police at the earliest convenient time
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, b. Stop patient care and call the police
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c. Continue patient care and maintain patient
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confidentiality by not reporting the suspicions || || || || ||
d. Place the patient in restraints and then summon the
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police to the scene - ✔✔A || || || || ||
An accident victim who is a minor has blood spurting from the brachial artery. The parents are not
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present. Which one of the following actions should the EMS provider take?
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a. Contact the receiving hospital by radio for permission
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to proceed with treatment
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b. Get permission from the police to proceed with
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treatment
c. Take the child to the hospital but provide no treatment
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d. Presume that parental consent is implied and
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proceed with treatment - ✔✔D || || || ||
An EMS provider responds to a call and finds an 80-
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year-old female with no pulse or respirations. The patient has a history of terminal brain cancer.
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The family states that the last time she was seen alive was just 5 minutes prior to calling EMS.
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They also state that the patient has a DNR order in New York State, EMS personnel may accept
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which of the following DNR instruments as valid?
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a. Verbal request from family
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b. Written nonhospital DNR
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c. Written healthcare proxy
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d. Written living will - ✔✔B
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At the scene of a crime, the EMS provider should
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remember to: ||
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answers
The role of the ems provider is to do all of the following
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EXCEPT:
a. Perform primary assessment
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b. Provide initial resuscitation
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c. Provide definitive diagnosis
|| || ||
d. Package patients for transportation - ✔✔C
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As a part of infection control procedures, it is ESSENTIAL that the EMS provider:
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a. Dispose of all equipment used after each call
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b. Wash his/her hands after treating each patient
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c. Wash his/her clothes after each patient contact
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d. Avoid casual contact with any patients - ✔✔B
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Another name for the left lateral position is
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a. Semi-fowlers
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b. Trendelenburg
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c. Recovery position
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d. Dorsal recumbent - ✔✔C
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In what position should an unconscious overdose patient be transported to a hospital?
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a. On his/her back, with feet elevated
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b. On his/her side
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c. Seated, with head tilted back and legs elevated
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,d. Facedown, with head elevated - ✔✔B
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A single EMS provider finds a non-breathing and pulseless victim of a motor vehicle accident
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lying face down in the road, and suspects that the victim has a spinal injury. The EMS provider
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should:
a. Do nothing until help arrives
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b. Leave the victim in place and attempt to apply the
|| || || || || || || || || ||
principles of CPR || ||
c. Turn the victim's body as a unit and begin CPR
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d. Apply an extrication collar and attempt to ventilate - ✔✔C
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The pre-hospital care report (PCR) is considered to be
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a. A part of the patients hospital chart
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b. A matter of public records
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c. Inadmissible in a court of law
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d. A research document only - ✔✔A
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When communicating with an elderly patient an EMS
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provider should ||
a. Yell in the patients ear
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b. Speak only to the family
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c. Use written notes
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d. Speak to the patient in a normal voice - ✔✔D
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An EMS provider is called to the scene of an accident and notices conditions, which suggest that
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the patient has been involved in a crime. The EMS Provider should:
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a. Continue patient care and report the incident to the
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police at the earliest convenient time
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, b. Stop patient care and call the police
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c. Continue patient care and maintain patient
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confidentiality by not reporting the suspicions || || || || ||
d. Place the patient in restraints and then summon the
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police to the scene - ✔✔A || || || || ||
An accident victim who is a minor has blood spurting from the brachial artery. The parents are not
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present. Which one of the following actions should the EMS provider take?
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a. Contact the receiving hospital by radio for permission
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to proceed with treatment
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b. Get permission from the police to proceed with
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treatment
c. Take the child to the hospital but provide no treatment
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d. Presume that parental consent is implied and
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proceed with treatment - ✔✔D || || || ||
An EMS provider responds to a call and finds an 80-
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year-old female with no pulse or respirations. The patient has a history of terminal brain cancer.
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The family states that the last time she was seen alive was just 5 minutes prior to calling EMS.
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They also state that the patient has a DNR order in New York State, EMS personnel may accept
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which of the following DNR instruments as valid?
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a. Verbal request from family
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b. Written nonhospital DNR
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c. Written healthcare proxy
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d. Written living will - ✔✔B
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At the scene of a crime, the EMS provider should
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remember to: ||
