NY State Written Final EMT | 100% Correct
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What is the most effective means of reducing disease transmission? - ✔✔Hand Washing
What makes up an EMT's PPE? - ✔✔Gloves, Safety Glasses, Gowns and Masks when appropriate.
What solution would you use for blood cleanups? - ✔✔10% Bleach Solution (lasts three weeks)
What is the power lift? - ✔✔With you and your partners limitations in mind, lift with your legs, not your
back, with your palms facing up.
What is the #1 cause of injury for EMTs? - ✔✔Improper Lifting
What precautions must be taken before arrival at any scene? - ✔✔Ensure your own safety, ensure scene
safety, approach upwind, and do what you are trained to do.
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) - ✔✔a session usually held within 24 to 72 hours of a critical
incident, where a team of peer counselors and mental health professionals help emergency service
personnel work through emotions that normally follow a critical incident
Public Health Law Article 30, Part 800 - ✔✔Contains the rules & regulations in reference to EMS &
immunities. An EMT cannot be held liable unless gross negligence can be proven.
Good Samaritan Act - ✔✔Protects private non-certified citizens who assist in emergency
Negligence - ✔✔Deviation from the Standard of Care; Includes the Duty to Act, Breech of Duty, Injury
Occurred, and Proximate Cause
Duty to Act - ✔✔an obligation to provide care to a patient
,Breech of Duty - ✔✔Failure to provide reasonable care to prevent harm or injury
Injury Occurred - ✔✔There is an effect from the breach of duty
Proximate Cause - ✔✔An injury occurs from improper action or failure to act
Assault - ✔✔Unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm
Battery - ✔✔unlawful touching of another person without consent
Consent - ✔✔Agreement by the patient to accept medical intervention
Informed (Actual) Consent - ✔✔A patient is told, in a matter they can understand, the extent of the
procedure performed and the possible risks, followed by patient consent
Implied Consent - ✔✔Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given
treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.
Abandonement - ✔✔Termination of the provider-patient relationship without consent
Delegated Practice - ✔✔A medical director delegates the rescuer to carry out actions on their behalf
Online Direction - ✔✔Medical Control
Offline Direction - ✔✔Protocol and Standing Orders
Quality Improvement - ✔✔Monitors prehospital care to achieve optimal excellence in patient services
,How do you correct an error on a PCR? - ✔✔One line through the error, initial it, date it
What is the main thing to remember when writing a PCR? - ✔✔If you didnt do it, dont say that you did
When may an EMT pronounce death? - ✔✔Rigor Mortis, Dependent Lividity, Decapitation,
Decomposition, Valid NYS Prehospital DNR form with Patient
Emergency Medical Dispatch - ✔✔First aid instructions given by specially trained dispatchers to callers
over the telephone while an ambulance is en route to the call.
Green Triage Tag - ✔✔Minor Injuries
Yellow Triage Tag - ✔✔Delayed Priority
Red Triage Tag - ✔✔High Priority
Black Triage Tag - ✔✔Dead
Brady- - ✔✔slow
Contra- or Anti- - ✔✔against
des-/dys-/dis- - ✔✔Disorder / difficult
Tachy- - ✔✔fast
Cardio- - ✔✔heart
Cerebro- - ✔✔brain
, Cephalo- - ✔✔head
hemi- - ✔✔half
hypo- - ✔✔deficient, below
hyper- - ✔✔above, excess
inter- - ✔✔between
intra- - ✔✔inside
Anterior (ventral) - ✔✔Towards the front of the body
Posterior - ✔✔towards the back of the body
Superior - ✔✔Above
Inferior - ✔✔Below
Superficial - ✔✔near the surface
deep - ✔✔remote to the surface
internal - ✔✔inside
external - ✔✔outside
Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version
What is the most effective means of reducing disease transmission? - ✔✔Hand Washing
What makes up an EMT's PPE? - ✔✔Gloves, Safety Glasses, Gowns and Masks when appropriate.
What solution would you use for blood cleanups? - ✔✔10% Bleach Solution (lasts three weeks)
What is the power lift? - ✔✔With you and your partners limitations in mind, lift with your legs, not your
back, with your palms facing up.
What is the #1 cause of injury for EMTs? - ✔✔Improper Lifting
What precautions must be taken before arrival at any scene? - ✔✔Ensure your own safety, ensure scene
safety, approach upwind, and do what you are trained to do.
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) - ✔✔a session usually held within 24 to 72 hours of a critical
incident, where a team of peer counselors and mental health professionals help emergency service
personnel work through emotions that normally follow a critical incident
Public Health Law Article 30, Part 800 - ✔✔Contains the rules & regulations in reference to EMS &
immunities. An EMT cannot be held liable unless gross negligence can be proven.
Good Samaritan Act - ✔✔Protects private non-certified citizens who assist in emergency
Negligence - ✔✔Deviation from the Standard of Care; Includes the Duty to Act, Breech of Duty, Injury
Occurred, and Proximate Cause
Duty to Act - ✔✔an obligation to provide care to a patient
,Breech of Duty - ✔✔Failure to provide reasonable care to prevent harm or injury
Injury Occurred - ✔✔There is an effect from the breach of duty
Proximate Cause - ✔✔An injury occurs from improper action or failure to act
Assault - ✔✔Unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm
Battery - ✔✔unlawful touching of another person without consent
Consent - ✔✔Agreement by the patient to accept medical intervention
Informed (Actual) Consent - ✔✔A patient is told, in a matter they can understand, the extent of the
procedure performed and the possible risks, followed by patient consent
Implied Consent - ✔✔Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given
treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.
Abandonement - ✔✔Termination of the provider-patient relationship without consent
Delegated Practice - ✔✔A medical director delegates the rescuer to carry out actions on their behalf
Online Direction - ✔✔Medical Control
Offline Direction - ✔✔Protocol and Standing Orders
Quality Improvement - ✔✔Monitors prehospital care to achieve optimal excellence in patient services
,How do you correct an error on a PCR? - ✔✔One line through the error, initial it, date it
What is the main thing to remember when writing a PCR? - ✔✔If you didnt do it, dont say that you did
When may an EMT pronounce death? - ✔✔Rigor Mortis, Dependent Lividity, Decapitation,
Decomposition, Valid NYS Prehospital DNR form with Patient
Emergency Medical Dispatch - ✔✔First aid instructions given by specially trained dispatchers to callers
over the telephone while an ambulance is en route to the call.
Green Triage Tag - ✔✔Minor Injuries
Yellow Triage Tag - ✔✔Delayed Priority
Red Triage Tag - ✔✔High Priority
Black Triage Tag - ✔✔Dead
Brady- - ✔✔slow
Contra- or Anti- - ✔✔against
des-/dys-/dis- - ✔✔Disorder / difficult
Tachy- - ✔✔fast
Cardio- - ✔✔heart
Cerebro- - ✔✔brain
, Cephalo- - ✔✔head
hemi- - ✔✔half
hypo- - ✔✔deficient, below
hyper- - ✔✔above, excess
inter- - ✔✔between
intra- - ✔✔inside
Anterior (ventral) - ✔✔Towards the front of the body
Posterior - ✔✔towards the back of the body
Superior - ✔✔Above
Inferior - ✔✔Below
Superficial - ✔✔near the surface
deep - ✔✔remote to the surface
internal - ✔✔inside
external - ✔✔outside
