EMT Operations Practice Test 1

Question 1

You are dispatched to the scene of a 9 year old girl who has been struck by a car. Police are unable to reach her parents. What gives you the ability to treat the girl?

Accepted Answer

Implied Consent

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Expressed Consent

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Revoked Consent

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Informed Consent

Question 2

You are dispatched to 123 Somewhere Rd to a call for an injured woman...  You are dispatched to 123 Somewhere Rd to a call for an injured woman. As you approach the door of the home, a man opens the door and tells you "this is none of your business" and to "get out of here". What is the correct course of action in this case?

Accepted Answer

Return to the ambulance drive a safe distance away and call for the police to help

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Return to the ambulance and tell dispatch that the patient has refused care

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Reason with the man and explain that the women may need medical attention

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Barge past the man and help the woman in the home

Question 3

If a patient refuses treatment and an EMT treats the patient anyway, what crime can the EMT be charged with?

Accepted Answer

Battery

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Medical Malpractice

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Slander

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Kidnapping

Question 4

This practice of protecting yourself and your patient from the transfer of bodily fluids is known as what?

Accepted Answer

Body Substance Isolation

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Wearing Gloves

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Universal Precautions

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Being Safe

Question 5

What law provides protection from legal action to someone who provides help to an injured person?

Accepted Answer

Good Samaritan law

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No law exists

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Duty to act

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EMT Registration

Question 6

While responding, ambulances are particularly at risk of collisions in which areas?

Accepted Answer

Intersections

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Pulling out of their bay

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Freeway driving

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Arriving on scene

Question 7

Headlights are often overlooked as part of the emergency warning lighting system. Headlights should be used while______________?

Accepted Answer

On the road

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Responding to a call

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Returning from a call

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Transporting to the hospital

Question 8

While responding to a Hazardous Materials incident, the EMT should approach the scene from _________?

Accepted Answer

Up wind, Uphill, Up river

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Up wind, Uphill, down river

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Down wind, Down hill, Down river

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Down wind, Over a hill, Down river

Question 9

EMS should set up in which zone during a HazMat incident?

Accepted Answer

Cold zone

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Hot zone

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Warm zone

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Luke warm zone

Question 10

When is it acceptable to take a patient directly from the hot zone without going through decontamination?

Accepted Answer

Never, no matter how sick the patient is they must be decontaminated

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When the patient requires life saving interventions

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Anytime the EMS commander deems it acceptable

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Only minor exposure patients only