EMT Chapter 1

What is the first public health responsibility?

• Designing a prevention strategy

• Identifying a problem that affects a specific population

• Evaluating the local EMS capabilities

• Educating the targets population that is at risk

Evidence-based medicine tends to emphasize which component of the traditional approach to the practice of emergency medicine?

• Quality improvement

• Science

• Intuition

• Good Judgement

Evidence-based medicine tends to emphasize which component of the traditional approach to the practice of emergency?

• Quality improvement

• Science

• Intuition

• Good judgment

And example of a population or group at greater risk from falls would be?

• American Indians

• Infants

• The elderly

• People who live on farms

What was the effect of The publication of Accidental Death and Disability:The Neglected Disease of Modern Society on modern day EMS?

• It’s served as a catalyst for ambulance systems

• The American Heart Association began training the public in CPR

• It identified that many people were dying due to crashes while traveling by airplane

• The federal government created the Department of Health and Public Safety