AND CORRECT ANSWERS ACCURATE REAL EXAM
Types of stress include: - answer>>>Cumulative, post-traumatic stress reaction,
eustruss, acute stress, and chronic stress
Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses? - answer>>>DOT
Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification. - answer>>>National
Registery
Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field. -
answer>>>Medical Control
Recognition, patient assesment, continued assesment and stabilization in hospital,
definitive care. - answer>>>Continuum of Care
S/S of stress include: - answer>>>Increased respiratory rate, heart rate, and B/P,
vasodilation, dialted pupils, tensed muscles, increased glucose levels, perspiration,
deacreased blood flow to gastrointestinal tract, irritability, inability to concentrate,
difficult or increased sleeping, anxiety, guilt, loss of appetite, decreased sexual activity,
loss of interest in work, alcholism, drug use.
Management of stress includes: - answer>>>Eliminate stressors, change partners, get rid
of negative personalities, change work hours, reduce overtime, change your attitude,
don't obsess over what you can't change, excercise, diet.
Fight or Flight response: - answer>>>During an acute stress response, the autonomic
nervous system is activated and the body increases level of cotricol, adrenilen, and
other hormones that produce an increased heart rate, quick breathing, and higher BP.
Blood is shunted from extremities to the big muscles to "fight or flight".
, Routes of transmission include: - answer>>>Direct - touch or droplets
Indirect - spread by inanimate objects
Mechanical (vector born) - by insects
Biological - Transmissions by which the germs live or grow
Airborne - sneezes, coughs
Dust - may carry pores, may remain for long periods.
Control and prevention of contamination include? - answer>>>Hand washing, gloves,
eye protection, gowns, masks, mask, respirators, barrier devices, and immunizations.
Duty to Act is? - answer>>>An obligation to provide care.
Duties include: - answer>>>Duty to:
-Respond
-Obey laws and regulations
-Operate an emergerncy vehicle reasonably and prudently
-Provide care and transportation to expected standard
-Provide care and transport consistent with the scope of practice and local medicine
protocol
-Continue and transport through to its appropriate conclusion
The scope of practice is? - answer>>>Descriptionof what assessment and treatment
skills and EMT may legally perform.
Implied consent is? - answer>>>Consent in which a patient is unable to give consent and
is provided treatment under the implication they would want treament.