1. EMT-Basics in a supervisor or group leader role should be assigned no more than ________ responders to manage or supervise.

2. You are the first person on the scene of a medical emergency at a private residence. As you enter the residence with your equipment, a man frantically tells you that his wife fell while trying to walk from the bed to the bathroom and hasn’t spoken or taken a breath since. You assess the patient and find she is apneic and pulseless. The best way to ventilate this patient is with the

3. When treating a multiple-trauma patient, the patient compartment of the ambulance should be kept

4. Your patient is a 62-year-old male who has a history of coronary artery disease and COPD. He calls 911 complaining of difficulty breathing. You decide a focused examination is appropriate. You should

5. Airway obstructions may be indicated by the presence of

6. You respond to the scene of a high-speed motor vehicle collision (MVC). Your patient was the driver of a small pickup truck that struck the rear of a stopped tractor-trailer. The patient is awake but trapped underneath the rear of the semi, and the extrication team is setting up hydraulic extrication tools to free him. Because of the numerous engines and tools running nearby, the best way to obtain this patient’s blood pressure is most likely via

7. When assessing the patient with a significant mechanism of injury (MOI), the EMT-Basic should expose

8. Of the following, the burns most likely to be associated with a life threat are

9. In the infant patient, a critical finding distinguishing respiratory failure from respiratory distress is

10. Which of the following is NOT routinely transmitted during the radio patient report?

11. The cardiac rhythm that is most common in sudden cardiac arrest and is characterized by chaotic, rapid 'twitching' of the heart muscle instead of regular, efficient contractions is known as

12. You respond to an emergency call involving a toddler. Upon entering the house, the child’s frantic mother states that the child had a fever and she put him to bed earlier in the evening. Later, she found him awake but unable to talk. You find the child sitting upright on his bed, looking frightened and refusing to speak. You also note that he does not present any signs of labored breathing, but he is drooling without making attempts to swallow. Recognizing the child’s condition, you know the best course of treatment is to

13. When artificially ventilating a patient with a stoma, the EMT-Basic may need to

14. While performing a rapid trauma assessment on the unresponsive victim of a high-speed motorcycle collision, you note a deformity to the patient’s left lower leg. You should

15. Not all patients experiencing a cardiac event will present with classic symptoms. The groups of people who are prone to atypical presentation include all of the following EXCEPT

16. Ideally, the endotracheal tube should be advanced until the tip lies just

17. On most extrication scenes, the role of the EMT-Basic assigned to the ambulance is to provide

18. Patients who experience severe vaginal bleeding should be treated similar to patients suffering from

19. Complications of the flow-restricted, oxygen-powered ventilation device include all of the following EXCEPT

20. You have just placed an endotracheal tube in a patient with multiple traumas. After inflating the bulb and ensuring that your partner is delivering adequate breaths, your first action should be to

21. Potential signs of child abuse include all of the following EXCEPT

22. Which statement regarding the movement of a patient to the ambulance is true?

23. While performing an interfacility transfer, you use your service’s automatic non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) device. Your patient is an alert 73-year-old woman who is being transferred from one hospital to another for specialty surgery. En route, you are conversing with the patient, who is cheerful and telling stories, when the machine alarms and displays a reading of 60/10. Your first action should be to

24. You respond to a call at a local tavern about a patron who fell while trying to leave after several hours of heavy drinking. You find the patient responsive only to loud verbal stimuli but without obvious injury. While treating this patient, you should have ________ available and ready at all times.

25. The pulse oximeter may give false readings in cases involving all of the following EXCEPT