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Prehospital Emergency Care Practice Test: Basics of Emergency Care Systems, Research, and Public Health
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Emergency care systems (ECS) can address a wide range of acute conditions, including emergent conditions from communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases, pregnancy, and injury.  Emergency medicine and public health can interact in at least four areas: Surveillance of diseases, injuries, and health risks Monitoring health care access Delivering clinical preventive services Developing policies to protect and improve the public's health  Effective emergency care systems can serve as settings for public health interventions for difficult to reach populations. For example, there are... Show more
Prehospital Emergency Care Practice Test: Basics of Emergency Care Systems, Research, and Public Health
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1. Which statement made by an EMT requires immediate intervention by a superior or the service supervisor?
2. Which statement accurately describes the hospital emergency department?
3. An EMT with your service states that she desires to become a paramedic because she wants to provide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, which one of these types of care will she be able to provide as a paramedic that she cannot provide as an EMT?
4. You have arrived at the scene of a medical emergency and find a woman lying on the floor of a grocery store. As you approach her, you know that your first priority as an EMT is:
5. Which be an EMS public health initiative?
6. Practice Model, you inform him of which element?
7. As a supervisor with an emergency ambulance service, which situation regarding a potential employee would you recognize as falling under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and as case in which you would make reasonable accommodations?
8. The functions of a state EMS agency include:
9. Most authorities agree that the modern-day EMS system evolved after the release of which document?
10. You are by the side of a confused patient who has diabetes and a low blood sugar level. You know that the patient needs orally administered sugar, so following your service's guidelines, you call the physician on duty at the hospital emergency department and request permission to administer it. This request is an example of:
11. An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that he is interested in becoming an EMT. Specifically, he asks what he will be able to do as an EMT that he cannot presently do as an EMR. You respond by saying he will be able to:
12. A female jogger has collapsed on a trail at a public park. A crowd of curious onlookers have collected and are watching as the EMT examines the patient for any life-threatening conditions. After determining that there are none and the patient is stable, the EMT acts as a patient advocate by:
13. You have been dispatched for a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest. Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs) are on scene. In your community, all EMS practitioners are trained according to the National EMS Scope of Practice Model. Given this, which type of care do you expect the EMRs to be providing?
14. Your service's medical director would like to explore the idea of EMTs using special transport ventilators when caring for patients who require assistance with their breathing. When using an evidence-based medicine approach, what should you do first?
15. Which statement best summarizes the underlying benefit of using evidence-based medicine?
16. If a patient with chest pain takes a daily aspirin, your medical director wants the EMT to contact an emergency department physician first before administering additional aspirin. The act of contacting the emergency department physician by phone or radio for permission to administer additional aspirin is an example of:
17. Once a scene is free of safety hazards, the EMT must recognize and focus on the needs of the:
18. An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that he would like to work for your emergency ambulance service on a full-time basis. Knowing the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, you inform him of which element?
19. Why is EMS in a unique position to contribute significantly to mobile integrated health care?
20. An ambulance with two EMTs arrives in front of a house for an unknown medical emergency. On scene, bystanders report that a female patient was beaten by her husband in the driveway and then dragged back into the house. They state that the patient appeared unconscious and was bleeding from the head. Which action would the EMTs perform next?
21. Which item of protective gear is appropriate to wear at an automobile collision?
22. The county dispatch center where you work employs emergency medical dispatchers (EMDs) as call takers. Using EMDs as opposed to a person who is just a 'call taker' enables the dispatch center to:
23. Before the EMT contacts medical direction for authorization to assist a patient with shortness of breath in using her metered-dose inhaler, protocols state that the EMT must first attempt to provide relief by administering oxygen if the pulse oximeter reading is less than 94%. You recognize that the administration of oxygen is best described as a(n):
24. A 14-year-old boy has fallen through a plate glass window and is bleeding heavily from a laceration to his arm. His panicked mother has called 911 for help. Since the 911 operators are also emergency medical dispatchers, what sort of assistance will they be able to provide?
25. In the public health continuum, what is the first responsibility that public health officials must satisfy to improve the health of a community?

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