Prehospital Emergent Care 11th, Chapter 1Actual
Exam (2025) comprehensive questions and verified
answers ( detailed & elaborated) 2025-2026 TEST
1) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that he
is interested in becoming an EMT. Specifically, he asks what he will be able to
do as an EMT that he cannot presently do as an EMR. You respond by saying
he will be able to:
A) Administer some medications
B) Assist in emergency childbirth
C) Use an automated external defibrillator
D) Obtain vital signs
A) Administer some medications
2) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest.
Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs) are on scene. In your community, all
EMS practitioners are trained according to the National EMS Scope of Practice
Model. Given this, which type of care do you expect the EMRs to be providing?
A) Emergency medication administration
B) Automated external defibrillation
C) Intravenous therapy
D) Reading an electrocardiogram
B) Automated external defibrillation
3) An EMT with your service states that she desires to become a paramedic
because she wants to provide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope
of Practice Model, which one of these types of care will she be able to provide
as a paramedic that she cannot provide as an EMT?
A) Automated blood pressure monitoring
B) Assistance with emergency childbirth
, C) Interfacility transports
D) IV therapy
D) IV therapy
4) What is a primary purpose of the modern-day EMS system?
A) Provide a means of transport to and from the hospital
B) Ensure that all members of society have equal access to hospitals
C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and illness
D) Provide emergency health care services to medically underserved areas
C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and illness
5) Most authorities agree that the modern-day EMS system evolved after the
release of which document?
A) The Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of
Modern Society" in 1966
C) The American Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiac Resuscitation
D) Emergency Medical Services: Agenda for the Future, in 1996
B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of
Modern Society" in 1966
6) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that he would
like to work for your emergency ambulance service on a full-time basis.
Knowing the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, you inform him of which
element?
A) He will be able to take care of only patients with non-life-threatening
complaints
B) He will first need approval from your ambulance service's medical director
C) He will be able to work only with an Advanced EMT or paramedic
D) He will first have to become an Emergency Medical Technician
D) He will first have to become an Emergency Medical Technician
7) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of
EMS practitioners include:
A) Ambulance drivers
B) EMS medical director
C) Paramedics
D) Emergency medical dispatchers
Exam (2025) comprehensive questions and verified
answers ( detailed & elaborated) 2025-2026 TEST
1) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that he
is interested in becoming an EMT. Specifically, he asks what he will be able to
do as an EMT that he cannot presently do as an EMR. You respond by saying
he will be able to:
A) Administer some medications
B) Assist in emergency childbirth
C) Use an automated external defibrillator
D) Obtain vital signs
A) Administer some medications
2) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest.
Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs) are on scene. In your community, all
EMS practitioners are trained according to the National EMS Scope of Practice
Model. Given this, which type of care do you expect the EMRs to be providing?
A) Emergency medication administration
B) Automated external defibrillation
C) Intravenous therapy
D) Reading an electrocardiogram
B) Automated external defibrillation
3) An EMT with your service states that she desires to become a paramedic
because she wants to provide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope
of Practice Model, which one of these types of care will she be able to provide
as a paramedic that she cannot provide as an EMT?
A) Automated blood pressure monitoring
B) Assistance with emergency childbirth
, C) Interfacility transports
D) IV therapy
D) IV therapy
4) What is a primary purpose of the modern-day EMS system?
A) Provide a means of transport to and from the hospital
B) Ensure that all members of society have equal access to hospitals
C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and illness
D) Provide emergency health care services to medically underserved areas
C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and illness
5) Most authorities agree that the modern-day EMS system evolved after the
release of which document?
A) The Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of
Modern Society" in 1966
C) The American Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiac Resuscitation
D) Emergency Medical Services: Agenda for the Future, in 1996
B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of
Modern Society" in 1966
6) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that he would
like to work for your emergency ambulance service on a full-time basis.
Knowing the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, you inform him of which
element?
A) He will be able to take care of only patients with non-life-threatening
complaints
B) He will first need approval from your ambulance service's medical director
C) He will be able to work only with an Advanced EMT or paramedic
D) He will first have to become an Emergency Medical Technician
D) He will first have to become an Emergency Medical Technician
7) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of
EMS practitioners include:
A) Ambulance drivers
B) EMS medical director
C) Paramedics
D) Emergency medical dispatchers
