SKI PATROL PRACTICE SOLUTION TEST
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Hinge, gliding, pivot, and suture refer to what?
Answer: types of joints
●● Skeletal and smooth refer to what?
Answer: muscles
●● Which of the following most dramatically slows the healing time of
bones? aging, drinking, nutrition, smoking
Answer: smoking
●● A patient has stretched and torn the medial malleolar ligament. This
means the patient has
Answer: sprained her ankle
●● A patient has suffered a femur fracture. The greatest danger with this
injury is:
Answer: severe blood loss
,●● One of the most common assessment mistakes is to:
Answer: focus on the less serious "obvious" injury and miss a potential
life threat
●● A patient tells you she felt a "pop" behind her right ankle but there is
little or no pain, and she cannot move or walk on the foot. This is most
likely indicative of what type of injury?
Answer: a ruptured tendon
●● You notice crepitus when attempting to move a patient's injured wrist
back into an anatomically correct position. This is indicative of what
type of injury?
Answer: A fracture
●● A patient exhibits the following signs and symptoms: respiratory
difficulty, difficulty swallowing, upper extremity and facial vein
engorgement, red face, and shock. What injury is most likely causing
these signs and symptoms?
Answer: a posterior sternoclavicular dislocation
●● Which of the following injuries is generally the most serious?
dislocated knee, clavicular fracture, an anterior shoulder dislocation, a
dislocated patella
Answer: a dislocated knee
, ●● The most important component of field management for
musculoskeletal injuries is:
Answer: personal safety
●● The purpose of field splinting an MS injury includes all but which of
the following? allowing the bone ends to knit back together, helping
with muscle spasms by placing the limb in an anatomic position,
decreasing pain at the fracture site, preventing further injury and blood
loss
Answer: allowing the bone ends to knit back together
●● While attempting to place a deformed limb back into the anatomic
position, the patient screams and begs you to stop because of the pain.
Your best response it to:
Answer: stop and splint the limb in the current position
●● A patient has suffered an obvious femur fracture at the proximal end
of the femur near the femoral head. The proper splint for this type of
injury would be a:
Answer: long spine board
●● The MOST important step in applying any splint is to:
Answer: check distal CMS before and after splinting
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Hinge, gliding, pivot, and suture refer to what?
Answer: types of joints
●● Skeletal and smooth refer to what?
Answer: muscles
●● Which of the following most dramatically slows the healing time of
bones? aging, drinking, nutrition, smoking
Answer: smoking
●● A patient has stretched and torn the medial malleolar ligament. This
means the patient has
Answer: sprained her ankle
●● A patient has suffered a femur fracture. The greatest danger with this
injury is:
Answer: severe blood loss
,●● One of the most common assessment mistakes is to:
Answer: focus on the less serious "obvious" injury and miss a potential
life threat
●● A patient tells you she felt a "pop" behind her right ankle but there is
little or no pain, and she cannot move or walk on the foot. This is most
likely indicative of what type of injury?
Answer: a ruptured tendon
●● You notice crepitus when attempting to move a patient's injured wrist
back into an anatomically correct position. This is indicative of what
type of injury?
Answer: A fracture
●● A patient exhibits the following signs and symptoms: respiratory
difficulty, difficulty swallowing, upper extremity and facial vein
engorgement, red face, and shock. What injury is most likely causing
these signs and symptoms?
Answer: a posterior sternoclavicular dislocation
●● Which of the following injuries is generally the most serious?
dislocated knee, clavicular fracture, an anterior shoulder dislocation, a
dislocated patella
Answer: a dislocated knee
, ●● The most important component of field management for
musculoskeletal injuries is:
Answer: personal safety
●● The purpose of field splinting an MS injury includes all but which of
the following? allowing the bone ends to knit back together, helping
with muscle spasms by placing the limb in an anatomic position,
decreasing pain at the fracture site, preventing further injury and blood
loss
Answer: allowing the bone ends to knit back together
●● While attempting to place a deformed limb back into the anatomic
position, the patient screams and begs you to stop because of the pain.
Your best response it to:
Answer: stop and splint the limb in the current position
●● A patient has suffered an obvious femur fracture at the proximal end
of the femur near the femoral head. The proper splint for this type of
injury would be a:
Answer: long spine board
●● The MOST important step in applying any splint is to:
Answer: check distal CMS before and after splinting
