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EMT QUESTIONS/ANSWERS SECTION 1

• If a patient is 6’10”, the best way to transport him is:

• putting a spine board under the cot and extending the lengths
• using the trendelenburg position
• letting his legs hang over the end

• If during birth one leg presents itself, you should:

• cover the leg with moist towels and transport
• put patient in the knees to chest position
• apply gentle traction to the leg

• During sudden cardiac arrest, this takes place:

• acute myocardial infarction
• asystoly
• cardial fibrillation
• pulselessness

• If a downed power line rests on a car:

• tell occupant to stay in car and lay on seat
• have occupant leap out
• get in and help him

• If a swimmer is in cardiac arrest, apply CPR:

• in the water
• in the water after applying spine board
• after getting him onto the land

• Burns that turn red with blisters are:
• second degree burns
• With a frostbite patient, you should not:
• rub briskly
• A patient has been found unconscious with warm dry skin, you should suspect:
• heat stroke

• A child has been found unconscious in the snow for 4-6 hours.  His BP is low, pulse low. The best care is:
• stabilize but do not rewarm/blankets

• During trauma to the abdomen, pain starts in the left shoulder.  You suspect damage to:
• spleen

• During a blunt trauma injury, the patient feels pain in the right shoulder.  You suspect:
• gallbladder

• In a patient who is breathing inadequately, you should:
• use a BVM at 10-15 LPM

• An advantage of the simple facemask is that:
• it frees up hands to hold airway open

• To help a patient in a MVA with a fractured femur, you should:
• pull out of the car and splint, then transport

• In the same MVA, the patient’s eyes are unequal. You suspect:
• head trauma/skull fracture

• If a child was in an accident and is in a car seat, proper care is:
• to immobilize in the seat and transport

• The amount of blood loss which may cause shock is:
• 1 liter

• After a patient goes into unconsciousness from choking, you should:
• perform finger sweeps

• In a flail chest injury with paradoxal motion, the best care is:
• put a thick pad over injured area

• The best care for a broken scapula is to:
• provide a sling and swath

• If an occlusive dressing is applied and signs of respiratory problems occur, you should:
• open the corner of the dressing

• In a patient with head trauma, the best care is to:
• apply a pressure dressing

• In a fracture of the ankle, the splint should:
• use pillow, soft splint

• When an attempted suicide is involved, you should:
• stay with the patient
• If a patient is violent, the best approach is:
• call police (personal safety)

• If a patient has pain in both lower quadrants, it is most likely:
• large intestine/small intestine

• If ribs break during CPR, you should:
• immediately reassess your hand position

• For pain in the lower left quadrant, you should palpate:
• away from pain, then palpate towards pain

• For fluid coming out of the ears, it is best to:
• apply loose dressing

• It is okay to discontinue CPR if:
• you are relieved by an ALS team

• A rigid suction catheter is better since:
• it does not collapse

• Laws that protect an EMT are:
• Good Samaritan laws

• When doing CPR, the ratio of compressions to rises:
• 50:50

• To immobilize an unconscious face down drowning victim, you should start:
• stabilize neck and spine, roll

• During rapid rollout, the first thing the rescuer should do is:
• immobilize the head

• The best dressing for an abdominal reisceration:
• occlusive dressing

• While giving mouth to mouth, gastric disruption is caused by:
• the slow expulsion of fluids and vomit into the throat

• While giving oxygen to an infant, it is best to:
• blow by face with tent

• The correct order in care for an unconscious choking infant is:
• ventilate, back blows, chest thrust, ventilations

• When compressing the chest of a child:
• use the heel of one hand

• The compression site for an infant is:
• one finger below the nipple line

• The depth of compressions for a child should be:
• 1” – 1-1/2”

• During a pediatric crisis, you should advise:
• the parents and the child together

• When talking to a geriatric patient, you should:
• speak the same as you would with anyone

• If a young boy puts his hand through a window, the best care is:
• to leave the fingers exposed

• If you dress/splint an extremity and do not get a distal pulse, you should:
• rebandage the injury

• When picking up a patient in an auto accident, you should:
• not bend at the waist, use legs

• While traversing rough ground, the EMTs:
• should keep legs shoulder width apart

• Which mask delivers a specific amount of oxygen:
• Venturi (24%)

• The most likely cause of a patient having constricted pupils is:
• narcotics

• During a status epileptic seizure during transport, you should not:
• restrain the patient
• put anything in mouth

• While administering a traction splint, you should:
• continue to keep traction on the leg

• In a patient who is sweating and has cool, moist skin, you should suspect:
• heat exhaustion

• The release of blood into the pericardial sac causes:
• cardial tamponade

• To remove a bee sting, you would:
• scrape out/off the injury

• The best temperature of water for a frostbitten patient is:
• 105°

• A hemothorax is:
• blood in the thoracic cavity

• During an onset of epiglatitus, you should not:
• use an oropheryengeal airway

• When a child makes a barking sound, it is:
• croup

• AIDS infects through:
• blood or body fluids

• If a patient is unconscious near a gas leak, your first method of care is:
• to drag to a safe zone

• The leaf like structure that covers the trachea:
• epiglottis

• If an infant is burned in his groin and lower extremities you would expect:
• 29% to be burned

• A patient is found cool and clammy and is a diabetic.  You would suspect a cause to be:
• after he did not eat at lunch/no insulin or hypoglycemia

• Care which should not be provided for bee stings is:
• a hot pack

• To care for burns to the eyes it is best:
• to flush with water for 20 minutes

• To care for a slight angulation of an elbow, it is best:
• to splint in position found

• If the patient is dizzy and the extremities tingle, suspect:
• hyperventilation

• Carbon monoxide is deadly because:
• it excludes oxygen from the blood

• After treating poison patients, you should:
• transport immediately

• If you see rise and fall of chest but cannot hear or feel ventilations, you should:
• check the neck (stoma)

• The first sign of asphyxia:
• cyanosis

• For a woman who is choking but you can hear breathing, you should:
• encourage coughing

• Did that woman have a partial or full obstruction:
• partial

• For a scalp wound, the best care is:
• pressure dressing

• Upon exhalation, the diaphragm:
• relaxes

• For a patient with signs of shock, low BP, low pulse:
• you lift him onto cot

• The biggest problem in using a BVM is:
• keeping a tight seal

• An unconscious patient in a diabetic coma is best transported:
• recumbent with the airway monitored

• The best way to tell if chest compressions are working is to:
• check the carotid pulse

• When you stop CPR for more than 5 seconds:
• less blood will be circulated

• Primary care for a fracture of the extremities is:
• immobilize above and below adjacent joints
• straighten angulations

• A patient with an evisceration in the abdominal area should do what with one or all compartments:
• inflate one leg only
• Oxygen is carried by the:
• erythrocytes

• The type of airway you would use on a conscious patient:
• nasopharynglal

• A person with a fractured clavicle will present himself by:
• holding his arm close to his chest

• Definition of triage:
• to sort

• After performing a primary survey on a suspected poisoning patient who is stable, you should:
• try to identify the poison

• The most important sign in a head injury patient is:
• change in level of consciousness

• A dislocation will show signs of:
• swelling, deformity

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