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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 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?
2. Which statement accurately describes the concept of body mechanics?
3. While teaching a continuing education class on the lifting and moving of patients, which points would you constantly emphasize?
4. When you must push an object, it is important to:
5. You are trying to convince the equipment committee to purchase a hydraulic power cot. When discussing advantages of this device over a more traditional stretcher, which point would you emphasize?
6. You have been charged with writing a policy regarding reaching for equipment. In that policy, you indicate that the maximum distance an EMT should reach is no more than:
7. Which patient is appropriately positioned for transport?
8. An EMT would perform an urgent move when:
9. You and your partner have just been dispatched to the local children's hospital to pick up the neonatal transport team and the neonatal isolette so that you can transport them to a small community hospital 2 hours away and retrieve a neonate who is in distress. While driving to the children's hospital, which statement from your partner demonstrates he understands how to transport a patient with in an isolette?
10. 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?
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. 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:
13. When reaching forward to perform a logroll, the EMT should:
14. 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?
15. 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:
16. 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?
17. 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:
18. You are correctly using the blanket drag to move a patient when you:
19. 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?
20. Your coworkers would like to purchase a scoop (orthopedic) stretcher with some grant money. Before the purchase can be authorized, you have been asked to inform the purchasing committee of how this piece of equipment will benefit the service as well as enhance patient care. Your response would be:
21. Which set of instructions would you give to a new EMT who is preparing to use a squat lift to raise a patient secured to a stretcher?
22. Which position would be most appropriate for an alert and oriented patient complaining of shortness of breath?
23. 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?
24. 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?
25. The safest and most efficient way of using your body to gain mechanical advantage is:

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