EMT Chapter 1 Test with Complete Solutions
1. Medical Direction Oversight of the patient care aspects of an
EMS system by the Medical Director.
2. Evidence-Based Medical techniques or practices that are sup-
ported by scientific evidence confirming their
safety and eflcacy.
3. Patient Outcomes The long-term survival of patients.
4. Protocols List of steps, such as assessments and inter-
ventions, to be taken in ditterent situations.
5. The modern EMS system in the United 1960s. (The National Highway Safety Act
States began in the: charged the U.S. Department of Transporta-
tion, or DOT, with developing EMS standards.
Most EMT courses are based on models de-
veloped by the D.O.T.).
6. After World War II, who was the person The local undertaker.
who usually provided ambulance trans-
port?
7. The National Highway Safety Act charged The U.S. Department of Transportation.
which government entity with developing
an EMS system and upgrading prehospital
care?
8. What year was the National Registry of 1970.
Emergency Medical Technicians estab-
lished?
9. The National Highway Traffic Safety Ad- - Medical direction
ministration Technical Assistance Pro- - Regulation and policy
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, EMT Chapter 1 Test with Complete Solutions
gram provides a set of recommended - Resource management
standards for EMS systems for its assess- - Human resources and training
ment program. What is one of its ten stan- - Transportation
dards? - Facilities
- Communications
- Public information and education
- Trauma systems
- Evaluation
10. You have just become an EMS instructor, Public information and education.
and now you are teaching a helmet safe-
ty awareness class for a local elementary
school. This activity would be in support of
which assessment standard for the Tech-
nical Assistance Program?
11. In the National Highway Traffic Safety Ad- Ambulance transportation.
ministration (NHTSA) Technical Assistance
Program transportation standard, a criti-
cal component is safety and reliability of:
12. One aspect of the regulation and policy A lead EMS agency.
standard of the NHTSA Technical Assis-
tance Program is that each state should
have:
13. The Technical Assistance Program assess- Facilities.
ment standard specifying that each pa-
tient must be transported in a timely man-
ner to the closest appropriate medical fa-
cility is:
14. Trauma systems.
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1. Medical Direction Oversight of the patient care aspects of an
EMS system by the Medical Director.
2. Evidence-Based Medical techniques or practices that are sup-
ported by scientific evidence confirming their
safety and eflcacy.
3. Patient Outcomes The long-term survival of patients.
4. Protocols List of steps, such as assessments and inter-
ventions, to be taken in ditterent situations.
5. The modern EMS system in the United 1960s. (The National Highway Safety Act
States began in the: charged the U.S. Department of Transporta-
tion, or DOT, with developing EMS standards.
Most EMT courses are based on models de-
veloped by the D.O.T.).
6. After World War II, who was the person The local undertaker.
who usually provided ambulance trans-
port?
7. The National Highway Safety Act charged The U.S. Department of Transportation.
which government entity with developing
an EMS system and upgrading prehospital
care?
8. What year was the National Registry of 1970.
Emergency Medical Technicians estab-
lished?
9. The National Highway Traffic Safety Ad- - Medical direction
ministration Technical Assistance Pro- - Regulation and policy
1/9
, EMT Chapter 1 Test with Complete Solutions
gram provides a set of recommended - Resource management
standards for EMS systems for its assess- - Human resources and training
ment program. What is one of its ten stan- - Transportation
dards? - Facilities
- Communications
- Public information and education
- Trauma systems
- Evaluation
10. You have just become an EMS instructor, Public information and education.
and now you are teaching a helmet safe-
ty awareness class for a local elementary
school. This activity would be in support of
which assessment standard for the Tech-
nical Assistance Program?
11. In the National Highway Traffic Safety Ad- Ambulance transportation.
ministration (NHTSA) Technical Assistance
Program transportation standard, a criti-
cal component is safety and reliability of:
12. One aspect of the regulation and policy A lead EMS agency.
standard of the NHTSA Technical Assis-
tance Program is that each state should
have:
13. The Technical Assistance Program assess- Facilities.
ment standard specifying that each pa-
tient must be transported in a timely man-
ner to the closest appropriate medical fa-
cility is:
14. Trauma systems.
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