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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 of these tasks has not been identified as one that could be provided by a mobile integrated health care system?
2. What would be a logical project to be undertaken and developed by a quality improvement (QI) committee?
3. Which statement made by an EMT requires immediate intervention by a superior or the service supervisor?
4. You are interviewing for the position of EMT with a busy urban service. This morning you are to meet with the service's medical director. You have been told that she likes it when applicants ask questions about her role as the medical director. Related to her responsibilities as medical director, which question is most appropriate?
5. You have been asked to sit on your service's quality improvement (QI) committee. As a knowledgeable EMT, you recognize that in this role you will be involved in projects that are primarily designed to:
6. 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?
7. As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of EMS practitioners include:
8. Which item of protective gear is appropriate to wear at an automobile collision?
9. You work in a community that has an 'enhanced' 911 system. Given this, which is true about such a system?
10. 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?
11. Which attribute of a person would not likely work out well in the EMS profession?
12. What is a primary purpose of the modern-day EMS system?
13. You have arrived on the scene of a motor vehicle collision. A car has gone off the road and into a utility pole. The pole is broken and wires are hanging just above the car. You do not see any sparking or arcing of the wires. The driver of the car is slumped over the steering wheel and not moving. Several bystanders around the car are yelling for you to help. Which steps represent the correct order of your response?
14. How would the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) be satisfied for a pregnant emergency medical dispatcher (EMD) who suffers from paralysis of both legs and requires the use of a wheelchair?
15. Which statement shows that the EMT has a good understanding of her role and responsibilities related to being an EMT?
16. 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):
17. 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?
18. The functions of a state EMS agency include:
19. What actions place the patient at greatest risk for a medical mistake?
20. What would the EMT recognize as an advantage of the 911 universal number?
21. To be a medical director of an ambulance service, which requirement must the interested individual satisfy?
22. 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?
23. Which be an EMS public health initiative?
24. 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?
25. 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:

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