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Prehospital Emergency Care Practice Test: Basics of Ambulance Operations and Air Medical Response
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Prehospital Emergency Care Practice Test: Basics of Ambulance Operations and Air Medical Response
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1. A 43-year-old male is entrapped in a car that struck a tree at a high rate of speed. He suffered blunt trauma to the chest and has a decreased level of consciousness. In this situation, what is the best reason to transfer the patient by helicopter to the hospital?
2. What is the risk of operating an ambulance in a fashion that creates a negative cabin pressure?
3. Which action is most appropriate when using a helicopter on the scene of an emergency?
4. What would cause you to start transporting a critically injured patient to a local hospital (not equipped for major trauma) instead of waiting on a helicopter for rapid transport to a trauma center 50 miles away?
5. You walk into the station at the beginning of your shift and see another EMT laundering sheets and pillowcases used from the previous shift. Which observation should cause you to stop and correct the EMT in relation to this task?
6. In an EMS system, the first assessment of the call and the patient's condition is most often made by the:
7. A paramedic has asked you to sterilize a laryngoscope blade that was placed in the mouth of a patient during an endotracheal intubation procedure. To sterilize this piece of equipment, you should:
8. The EMT recognizes that preventive mechanical maintenance performed regularly on the ambulance results in:
9. Which option best illustrates a basic medical supply that must be carried on an ambulance?
10. The process of effectively using all resources available to reduce errors, increase safety, and improve performance is called:
11. In terms of high-visibility ANSI vests, which statement is true?
12. As an instructor for safe ambulance operations, which statement should you make to new EMTs about responding with lights and sirens through curves in the road?
13. Since supplies and materials used to treat the sick or injured may be used on every call, it is good practice to replace or restock the ambulance:
14. Which organization developed and published 'Strategy for a National EMS Culture of Safety'?
15. Which action would reduce the chance of being involved in an emergency response-related collision with the ambulance?
16. You have been dispatched for a 2-year-old female who is not breathing. When responding, you realize that your primary goal is to:
17. While cleaning the ambulance following an emergency call, you find a syringe and a needle that were used by the paramedic to give a patient an injection. What is the proper way to dispose of used syringes and needles?
18. Which statement is true regarding driving in inclement weather?
19. You are instructing a group of new EMTs on the basics of driving an emergency vehicle. What would you emphasize as the most frequent situation or location in which collisions involving ambulances occur?
20. For routine disinfection of a stethoscope after each call, the EMT should:
21. When an EMT is driving an ambulance in emergency mode (lights and sirens), most states do not permit the EMT to:
22. You are responding to a possible pediatric overdose. It is raining and suddenly the ambulance starts to hydroplane. Your immediate action should be to:
23. The use of Class 2 or 3 ANSI high-visibility vests when operating on a roadway is a requirement of:
24. How can you help prevent the entrance of carbon monoxide from the ambulance exhaust into the unit?
25. A helicopter has been requested at the scene of a motor vehicle collision at night where two people have been critically injured. As safety officer overseeing the incident, which action would cause you to immediately intervene for the safety of all rescuers, bystanders, and patients?

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