"The EMS Agenda For The Future" included 14 focus areas. Which of the following were part of
the EMS Agenda For The Future: - Answers Human Resources, Medical Direction & Clinical Care.
Which of the following is an example of a medical innovation developed during WWI. - Answers
Rapid extraction
What did the Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973 provide? - Answers Funding for EMS
system development
EMT-Basics need +750-1,500 hours of training and can perform intravenous IV access,
advanced airway and administer medications. - Answers F
What were the two key factors that contributed to increased survival following injury between
WWI and WWII? - Answers Quicker evacuation of injured individuals from the battlefield and
application of medical science to their care.
Following the Vietnam war many soldiers returned to the U.S. and noted "survival following
injury on the battlefield was more likely than when injured in most major cities." This
observation was highlighted in the landmark paper titled: - Answers Accidental Death &
Disability, the neglected disease of modern society.
Cardiac arrest occurs when: - Answers there is sudden loss of heart function when the heart's
electrical system malfunctions
Signs of Cardiac arrest include: - Answers all of the above
Research shows that the following intervention saves lives: - Answers early chest compression
EMS Agenda for the Future provides a vision for out-of-hospital EMS, including education issues.
- Answers T
When EMS professionals are providing CPR the ideal crew configuration is: - Answers 4 person
Chain of survival includes: - Answers all of the above
Reversing cardiac arrest due to an abnormal hearth rhythm called ventricular fibrillation is more
likely to occur if you're in and airport, a casino and hospital because: - Answers AEDs are
immediately available
Resuscitation attempts should NOT be withheld in the case of - Answers lightning strike
When considering pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, - Answers a longer downtime is
acceptable for initiation of resuscitation
Which of the following is NOT used to guide decisions for termination of resuscitation: -
, Answers medical history
Which of the following may be favorable regarding the survival of a patient in cardiac arrest? -
Answers hypothermia
Chest compressions should be: - Answers administer at a rate of 110 cpm or in cycles of 200
Which of the following interventions does not match its appropriate disease process? - Answers
Hemorrhage - epinephrine
EMT tasks during the pit crew model for CPR (pCPR) include all of the following EXCEPT: -
Answers placement of IO line
Paramedic-only tasks during the pit crew model for CPR (pCPR) include all of the following
EXCEPT: - Answers Use of an AED to shock the patient.
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding epinephrine in pCPR? - Answers It should
be given twice, once early and once at 8 minutes.
Retrospective Medical Oversight includes the use of quality assurance (QA) and Quality
Improvement (QI) to answer the following questions: "Is the system providing quality medical
care." or "what can be done to improve quality of care"? Which of the following is an example of
how quality assurance (QA) is performed? - Answers all of the above
The authority to provide medical care is tightly regulated in the United States by: - Answers
Individual States which define "scope of practice"
Based on the Skamania Symposium recommendations, the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration and the American Trauma Society are working together to develop a trauma
system vision for our country through 2010 in which the primary purpose of a trauma care
system is to reduce preventable deaths after injury changing the system focus from only the
most severely injured to addressing the needs of all injured patients will result in the greatest
health care benefit for the entire population. - Answers true
The essence of Medical Oversight is to ensure that emergency medical service activities are
conceived, structured and executed to ultimately provide benefit to patients. Two methods for
providing medical control include Online or direct and offline or indirect medical control. Which
of the following scenarios would be an example of online medical control? - Answers A 55 year
old man calls 911 for chest pain. Paramedics perform an EKG and are concerned the patient
may be having a heart attack. The EKG is transmitted electronically to the ER doctor on duty.
The Paramedics then speak to the ER doc on the radio who agrees the patient is having a heart
attack and authorizes administration of aspirin and transportation to the nearest cardiac center.
TRAUMA, THE MEDICAL TERM FOR BODILY INJURY, IS THIS nation's most tragic and expensive
- yet correctable - national health care problem. - Answers T