1. After completing a patient care encounter, the highest priority should be placed on

2. Important history findings when interviewing the respiratory patient include

3. Scene clues that will help the EMT-Basic assess the mechanism of injury at motor vehicle collision scenes include

4. You respond to a call at a home where you find an elderly man who is severely cyanotic and not breathing. His wife says that he hasn’t taken a breath for several minutes. You find a weak carotid pulse at 60 beats per minute. You should ventilate this patient at a rate of

5. You respond to the scene of a motorcycle MVC in which the driver lost control of his motorcycle, hit a parked car, flew over the handlebars, and then slid more than 25 feet across the pavement wearing only khaki shorts, a T-shirt, and sandals. You expect this patient to show signs of hypovolemic shock due to all of the following EXCEPT

6. Immobilizing the infant trauma patient may be accomplished by

7. Landmarks that may be visualized while performing endotracheal intubation include all of the following EXCEPT

8. You are assessing a 28-year-old male patient. His roommates tell you that he was despondent over a recent breakup and took a handful of pills at an unknown time. The roommates found the patient asleep an hour ago and have been unable to wake him since. After assessing the patient, you find him to be snoring loudly and unresponsive to painful stimuli. He is breathing at a rate of approximately 12 breaths per minute with adequate chest rise and fall. Your paramedic partner asks you to intubate the patient. The indication for intubation in this case is

9. When providing artificial respiration to patients of different ages, it is important to select

10. You respond to a call at a local tavern about a patron who fell while trying to leave after several hours of heavy drinking. You find the patient responsive only to loud verbal stimuli but without obvious injury. While treating this patient, you should have ________ available and ready at all times.

11. Indications for high-flow oxygen via a nonrebreather mask include all of the following EXCEPT

12. Your crew enters a large apartment building to respond to a report of a person bleeding. As you enter, you realize that you have recently responded to two shooting incidents at this complex. You hear several loud voices as you approach the apartment. After discussing the issue with your partner, you decide to wait around the corner of the hallway and use a ________ radio to request law enforcement backup.

13. When treating a multiple-trauma patient, the patient compartment of the ambulance should be kept

14. Penetrating wounds to the neck are particularly worrisome to the EMT-Basic because of the potential for

15. When comparing the two numbers obtained when taking a patient’s blood pressure, the

16. Specialized resources that may need to be called to a trauma scene include

17. When assessing a patient suspected of suffering from a behavioral emergency, EMS providers should

18. Young pediatric patients who are unable to tolerate receiving oxygen via mask should

19. Many significant advances in prehospital medicine have come during

20. Your patient is a 26-year-old male who was involved in an altercation. He has a severe laceration to the upper arm after being pushed through a large storefront window. Bystanders reported bright red blood spurting from the patient’s wounds. A bystander applied direct pressure to the wound with a towel prior to your arrival, but the patient continues to bleed and appears pale. This patient likely suffered a laceration of the ________, and your first priority should be to ________.

21. Your patient is experiencing crushing chest pain and tells you that it feels 'just like my last heart attack.' He is restless, anxious, and will not allow you to place a mask over his face to provide him with oxygen. You should

22. Airway obstructions may be indicated by the presence of

23. While treating an 11-year-old female who fell off her bicycle and injured her arm, you note several bruises to her inner thighs, some of which appear to be several days old. Her stepfather becomes agitated by your line of questioning and insists that the bruises are from the bicycle accident. You should

24. Patients suffering from hypothermia should be handled gently to prevent

25. Toddlers who fall more than a few feet commonly land on their