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Prehospital Emergency Care Practice Test: Basics of Lifting and Moving Patients
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Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) lift and move patients as part of their job. Here are some tips for lifting and moving patients safely: Use a partner: Try to lift with someone who is similar in height and strength. Keep weight close to body: This helps with balance and reduces strain on your back and arms. Flex at the hips: Don't twist your back, and flex at the hips instead. Position hands: Have the patient's hands on your arms or around their waist, but not around their neck. Use your legs: Use the power lift, which is when you bend your legs to bring your upper body down. Use a... Show more
Prehospital Emergency Care Practice Test: Basics of Lifting and Moving Patients
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1. A small car and a tanker truck loaded with gasoline have collided. The car is lodged under the tanker, the car engine is smoking, and the threat of fire is significant. After being waved in by the fire department, assessment reveals the patient to be unresponsive with a patent airway, but breathing with difficulty at 8 times per minute. In caring for this patient, your immediate action should be to:
2. An elderly patient is being cared for at home by family members and lies in a hospital-type bed in the living room. After providing necessary care, you prepare to move her from the bed to the stretcher. There is no mechanism that suggests a head, neck, or spinal injury. Which method would be most appropriate in this situation?
3. In preparing the schedule, you have been instructed to pair EMTs in a way that decreases the chance of injury when lifting and moving patients. Given this directive, who would make the best partner for a tall and very strong EMT?
4. When lifting or moving any patient, the EMT must remember to primarily use the muscles of his or her:
5. To improve your physical fitness and decrease the risk of injury when lifting and moving patients, you should combine proper body mechanics with:
6. Which position would be most appropriate for an alert and oriented patient complaining of shortness of breath?
7. Which observation demonstrates that the EMTs and EMRs are correctly using the stair chair?
8. When an EMT places his palm and all fingers in contact with the object being lifted, he is using the:
9. After providing spinal motion restriction to an elderly female patient who fell in her bathroom, you prepare to carry her down a flight of stairs on a backboard. Which verbal instructions would be most appropriate to give to your partner?
10. While teaching a continuing education class on the lifting and moving of patients, which points would you constantly emphasize?
11. An obese patient cannot ambulate and must be carried down several flights of stairs. Carrying the patient alone exceeds your physical capabilities; however, your partner is very strong and physically fit. Which statement, made by you, indicates the best means to safely lift and move the patient as well as minimize the likelihood of either of you suffering an injury?
12. When carrying equipment in the right hand, the EMT should:
13. When you must push an object, it is important to:
14. A large patient has been placed on the stretcher, and you and your partner are preparing to raise the stretcher using the power lift. Which observation of your partner would cause you to pause the lift to correct his technique?
15. You have been called to assist a pediatric physician, a pediatric nurse, and a respiratory therapist in the transfer of a 2-week-old baby who is very sick. The baby is to be transferred in an isolette to a large metropolitan teaching hospital in a nearby city, where specialized care can be provided. The isolette is secured to the stretcher, and the stretcher is loaded into the ambulance. The physician, nurse, and respiratory therapist will provide all patient care. Prior to departing the hospital, it is essential that you:
16. You are moving a critically injured patient to a helicopter for rapid transport to a trauma center. The rotors are spinning so that the aircraft can immediately take off. As team leader, which instruction would you provide?
17. One advantage of using the wheeled stretcher is:
18. You are caring for a young male patient who has overdosed on an unknown medication and has a decreased level of consciousness. When positioning the patient on the stretcher, which instructions will you give to the Emergency Medical Responders assisting you?
19. A patient must be removed immediately from a structure that is on the verge of collapse following an explosion. He is lying on the ground and dressed in shorts and a T-shirt. You are by yourself and have no other supplies or equipment. Which type of move would be most appropriate in this situation?
20. You and two other EMTs are preparing to move a patient down several flights of stairs using a stair chair. After assigning one rescuer to hold the chair at the head and another to hold the chair at the foot facing the patient, you should:
21. A large female patient has fallen in a parking lot between two cars. She must be moved on the backboard to the waiting stretcher, which is located approximately 200 feet from your location. Four rescuers are present. How would they best be used to promote the safest movement of the patient?
22. A patient has fallen in his upstairs bathroom and is lying on the floor. Assessment indicates no life threats to the airway, breathing, or circulation; however, the patient does have pain, deformity, and bruising to his right hip. In this situation, the EMT should recognize the need for which type of move?
23. When reaching forward to perform a logroll, the EMT should:
24. You are correctly using the blanket drag to move a patient when you:
25. A patient has developed chest pain while working in his basement wood shop. After EMTs have assessed and provided care to the patient, the chest pain remains, although his vital signs are normal. To get him to the ambulance, the EMTs must first go up a short flight of stairs from the basement to the first floor, where the front door is located. Which action would be the safest for both the patient and crew?

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