EMT quiz4

What is not a part of the scene size up?

Body substance isolation precautions include:

A fall should be considered severe whenever patients have fallen:

What may be useful in determinig the nature of illness/mechanism of injury?

The portion of the assessment that is designed to identify and treat immediate life-threatening injuries is called the:

Actions taken to correct a patient's problems are known as:

All of the following are examples of interventions except:

If a patient is not alert and is breathing less than 8 times a minute, the EMT should:

The assessment sign that is generally more reliable in children than adults is:

In any patient with suspected spinal cord injury, an EMT should apply manual stabilization:

What is not a vital sign?

You should obtain the first vital signs:

An EMT should be most concerned with a pulse rate maintained above:

The first pulse taken by an EMT on patients 1 year and older is the:

The act of breathing out is called:

All of the following are signs of labored breathing except:

The respiratory sound that points toward medical problems such as asthma is:

The skin color that indicates poor circulation is:

For skin to be called "clammy" it must be:

For unstable patients, an EMT should take vital signs every:

After the initial assessment, the more thorough assessment that an EMT performs int he field is the:

The decision to do a rapid trauma assessment is based on:

In assessing areas of a patient's body, the two main methodes the EMT uses are inspection and:

The medical term for "bruises" is:

All of the following would lead and EMT to suspect a cervical spine injury except:

Internal bleeding may cause:

Paradoxical motion is most commonly associated with:

If the medical patient is unconscious, the most reliable way for the EMT to obtain an accurate history of the present illness is to:

On most runs by EMT crews, most of the history of the present illness for a child is usually gathered from the:

For the unresponsive medical patient, the EMT would begin by:

To check the level of responsiveness in a 7-month infant who appears drowsy, the EMT should:

When assessing a conscious child, the EMT should remember to:

The EMT's findings during the ongoing assessment are particularly important for the :

Just how to conduct the ongoing assessment is determined by the:

The shortest and most concise form of communication is performed by an EMT on a call is:

All of the following patient data should be included in a radio medical report except:

To help calm a patient, and EMT should:

In assessing a child, an EMT should:

n cases of critically ill patients, an EMT should speak:

If an on-line physician orders medication, an EMT should:

Documentation of a call actually begins:

The documentation produced by an EMT is known informally as a:

A prehospital care report can not become

An EMT would record the timein which an emergency unit left on a call in the:

In writing narratives, EMT's usually place quotation marks around:

Actions performed on a patient that are worng and improper are known as:

All of the following can be found in a well-written narrative except:

Unlike a radio report, a prehospital care report will include the patient's:

If a competent patient refuses care or transport, an EMT should:

Incorrect information in a prehospital care report should be: