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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. When lifting the stretcher with a patient secured to it, the EMT must avoid which action?
2. To improve your physical fitness and decrease the risk of injury when lifting and moving patients, you should combine proper body mechanics with:
3. A patient involved in a motor vehicle collision has critical injuries and must be removed from the car for care and transport to the hospital. Prior to removing the patient from the vehicle, what must be done?
4. When reaching forward to perform a logroll, the EMT should:
5. When carrying equipment in the right hand, the EMT should:
6. 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?
7. When an EMT places his palm and all fingers in contact with the object being lifted, he is using the:
8. 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?
9. Which position would be most appropriate for an alert and oriented patient complaining of shortness of breath?
10. 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?
11. 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:
12. The safest and most efficient way of using your body to gain mechanical advantage is:
13. 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?
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. One advantage of using the wheeled stretcher is:
16. When lifting or moving any patient, the EMT must remember to primarily use the muscles of his or her:
17. You are correctly using the blanket drag to move a patient when you:
18. You are at the scene of a motorcycle accident on a rural road. The EMS captain has set up a landing zone and the local helicopter EMS agency has just landed; the aircraft is still running with both rotors turning. Which observation would cause you to take immediate action?
19. While teaching a continuing education class on the lifting and moving of patients, which points would you constantly emphasize?
20. 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?
21. You and your partner are preparing to move a trauma patient down a flight of stairs using a portable stretcher. As you begin the move, a third EMT shows up and asks to help. Which instructions would be most appropriate to ensure a safe move for both the patient and crew?
22. 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?
23. 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:
24. 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?
25. 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?

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