EMT-B Basic Final Exam ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses? - Correct answers✔DOT
Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification. - Correct answers✔National
Registery
Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field. - Correct
answers✔Medical Control
Recognition, patient assesment, continued assesment and stabilization in hospital, definitive care.
- Correct answers✔Continuum of Care
Types of stress include: - Correct answers✔Cumulative, post-traumatic stress reaction, eustruss,
acute stress, and chronic stress
S/S of stress include: - Correct answers✔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: - Correct answers✔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: - Correct answers✔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: - Correct answers✔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? - Correct answers✔Hand washing, gloves, eye
protection, gowns, masks, mask, respirators, barrier devices, and immunizations.
Duty to Act is? - Correct answers✔An obligation to provide care.
Duties include: - Correct answers✔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? - Correct answers✔Descriptionof what assessment and treatment skills
and EMT may legally perform.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses? - Correct answers✔DOT
Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification. - Correct answers✔National
Registery
Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field. - Correct
answers✔Medical Control
Recognition, patient assesment, continued assesment and stabilization in hospital, definitive care.
- Correct answers✔Continuum of Care
Types of stress include: - Correct answers✔Cumulative, post-traumatic stress reaction, eustruss,
acute stress, and chronic stress
S/S of stress include: - Correct answers✔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: - Correct answers✔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: - Correct answers✔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: - Correct answers✔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? - Correct answers✔Hand washing, gloves, eye
protection, gowns, masks, mask, respirators, barrier devices, and immunizations.
Duty to Act is? - Correct answers✔An obligation to provide care.
Duties include: - Correct answers✔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? - Correct answers✔Descriptionof what assessment and treatment skills
and EMT may legally perform.
