At which of the following points should you begin your scene size-up?

At the scene of a vehicle collision in which there are no apparent hazards, which of the following guidelines should be followed for establishing a danger zone?

When considering the potential for injury from a fall, which of the following is LEAST important?

You are on the scene of a tanker truck versus passenger vehicle collision on a rural highway. The vehicles are just beyond a curve in the roadway and there is a distinct odor of diesel fuel. It is dark and there is little traffic. Which of the following should be used to alert oncoming traffic to the situation?

You are on the scene of an explosion at a suspected methamphetamine manufacturing operation. You

and your partner are the first to arrive and note two middle-aged men and a woman on the front lawn

with burns and cuts on their faces and arms. The fire department is enroute. Which of the following

resources should be the LEAST important to be requested by the EMT during the scene size-up?

Your patient, a 29-year-old female, was the front seat passenger in a vehicle that was struck in the passenger's side door by another vehicle that ran a red light. Which of the following is most likely to have occurred?

You and your partner are enroute to a motor vehicle crash involving a tanker truck on a rural road. Dispatch informs you that fluid is leaking from the truck, that there are several bystanders passed out on the ground near the cab of the truck, and that a caller has reported the code that appears on a placard attached to the tanker truck. You should:

Which of the following may be a hazard at the scene of a vehicle collision?

You should have a keen awareness that there may be injuries based on your scene size-up. This is known as which of the following?

In EMS, which of the following BEST describes the term intervention?

You are caring for a patient that looks at you as you approach. Which of the following represents the correct order of assessment for the EMT during the primary assessment from start to end?

Which of the following questions will most likely illicit your patient's chief complaint?

You are at the scene where a 19-year-old female college student has been drinking large quantities of alcohol throughout the evening. On your arrival, the patient is lying on her back with no signs of trauma, has vomited, and has slow, wet sounding respirations. Which of the following should you do next?

You enter a room to find a 16-year-old female sitting upright in a chair with her back straight, leaning forward, and her arms supporting her. She is having a hard time talking to you. You should suspect:

You are approaching a 16-year-old male with bright red spurting blood coming from his leg. He is screaming, and he begs you to help him. You should FIRST:

Which of the following is the most reliable means of determining whether a patient has any immediately life-threatening conditions?

You have arrived on the scene at a high school football field where a 17-year-old male is lying on the

ground. He is unresponsive and cyanotic, and he is making obvious respiratory effort without moving

adequate amounts of air. Which of the following should be done first?

Your patient is a 33-year-old man who has been ejected from his vehicle during a high-speed collision.

During your primary assessment it is discovered that he is not moving, does not appear to have

adequate respirations, and has suffered moderate external bleeding. Which of the following should be

done first?

Which of the following is the proper position for maintaining the airway in a child with a decreased level

of consciousness?

Upon assessment of your patient, you notice that he has cool, sweaty skin. This finding is best described as which of the following?

ou are attempting to assess the blood pressure of a 35-year-old male at the scene of a multiple vehicle

collision. The scene is very noisy and you are unable to clearly hear the patient's heartbeat. You should:

You respond to a cafeteria to find an unconscious person with gurgling sounds upon exhalation and inhalation. What is the probable cause of the respiratory sounds?

Which of the following are the vital signs that need to be recorded

You are assessing a 55-year-old male complaining of chest pain and have determined that his radial pulse is barely palpable. You also determine that there were 20 pulsations over a span of 30 seconds. Based on this, how would you report this patient's pulse?

When the EMT checks the pupils he or she is checking for what three things?

You are transporting a patient to the hospital from a motor vehicle crash. Your patient's initial blood pressure was 88/52. You should reassess blood pressure:

The range of normal blood glucose level is from a low of 60 to 70 mg/dL to a high of:

You have a 38-year-old patient who has fainted. Following your local protocol, you use a pulse oximeter to determine the SpO2. You attach the device to the patient's finger; it gives you a reading of 91 percent. What does that reading indicate?

If capillary refill is assessed in a child patient, how long should it take the normal pink color to return to the nail bed?

Which of the following techniques of physical examination must an EMT master?

Mr. Hughes is a 49-year-old man complaining of chest pain. To find out about the quality of his chest pain, which of the following questions is most appropriate?

When using the memory aid OPQRST, which of the following questions would help you find out about P?

Your patient is a 16-year-old female who is reporting abdominal pain and nausea. She says it came on when she woke up this morning. Her mother says that her daughter has been tired and cranky lately and has not been eating well for a couple of weeks. In fact, every time you ask a question, the patient's mother answers. What should you do next?

You have responded for a patient with shortness of breath. He reports that his breathing problems began this morning and have gotten worse over the last few hours. You ask if he has taken anything to help his symptoms and he tells you that he has used his inhaler several times in the last hour. The information you have just gathered can be classified as:

While assessing the past medical history of a 68-year-old male patient involved in a fall from a 4-foot stepladder, you use the acronym SAMPLE. What does the A refer to?

You are on the scene of a 16-year-old patient in respiratory distress. The patient has a history of asthma. After placing the patient on oxygen and performing the primary and secondary assessments, you are confident that the patient is indeed having an asthma attack. How can you be sure your field diagnosis is accurate?

You are on the scene in the bad part of town for an unresponsive 18-year-old type 1 diabetic patient. His

mother states that he is very noncompliant with his diabetes management and goes unresponsive often

due to low blood sugar. After performing the primary assessment, you believe that this is the most likely cause of his unresponsiveness. However, after taking a capillary glucose reading you are surprised to

see that the patient's sugar level is normal. How will you now determine the field impression?

________ are signs or symptoms that suggest the possibility of a particular problem that is very serious.

A list of potential diagnoses compiled early in the patient's assessment is known as which of the following?

Your patient is a 24-year-old female who swallowed a handful of pills of unknown type. Although she was

initially alert and oriented with no complaints, you note that she is now beginning to slur her words and is

becoming progressively lethargic. What is the highest priority in dealing with this patient?

For which of the following patients is a focused physical examination appropriate?

If a patient complains of abdominal pain localized to a specific area of the abdomen, which of the following techniques should be used to assess the abdomen?

The term priapism means ________ and may be found in injuries of the ________.

Immediately following a rapid physical exam on an unresponsive medical patient, which of the following should you do next?

You respond to the scene of a motor vehicle crash to find a middle-aged man on a long spine board

being cared for by first responding firefighters. He appears to be bleeding from his head and he is

unconscious. You should check the car for:

Your patient was struck in the chest with a baseball bat during a bar fight. A crackling or crunching sensation that is felt when air escapes from its normal passageways and is trapped under the skin is called:

Which of the following is NOT a purpose of a rapid trauma assessment?

An unconscious trauma patient should always be assumed to have which of the following types of injury?

Your patient is the 18-year-old male driver of a vehicle that struck a tree. He is conscious and complaining of neck pain. The passenger is obviously dead. You have performed your primary assessment. Which of the following is the next step?

You are caring for a teenager who is having a severe allergic reaction. He has hives all over his stomach, is having respiratory distress, and is wheezing. After you administer oxygen, you get a set of vital signs. Medical direction has ordered you to assist with administration of his EpiPen®. You will monitor the success of your interventions during the:

While performing a detailed physical exam on a patient involved in a fall from 30 feet, the patient (who had previously been responding to your questions) stops responding. What should you do next?

Your 76-year-old female patient is having trouble breathing. When you auscultate her lungs, you hear

crackles (rales), and you are concerned that she may have pulmonary edema. Her oxygen saturation is

92%, so you place her on 100% oxygen via a non-rebreather mask. Her breathing gets a little easier with

the oxygen. You decide to expedite transport since she is anxious about her condition. Later, as you are completing your reassessment, you see that her respirations have slowed to 8 times per minute and she

is barely staying awake. What should you do next?

Your patient called 911 because he was having chest pain. He states that his pain is a 7 on a 10-point

scale. As part of your care, you assist him with taking his nitroglycerin per medical direction. After waiting

a few minutes for the medication to take effect, you should:

Your patient's initial vital signs were a pulse of 120 per minute and weak, a blood pressure of 90/50 mm

Hg, and a respiratory rate of 24 per minute. Upon reassessment, you note that the patient now has a

weak pulse of 100 per minute, a blood pressure of 110/60 mm Hg, and a respiratory rate of 20 per

minute. Which of the following can you conclude from this information?

You are transporting a victim of domestic violence, a 25-year-old female, who was struck on the head

several times with a baseball bat. On the scene, she was responsive to verbal stimuli and was bleeding

profusely from an open head wound. During transport, the patient becomes unresponsive. Which of the

following should you do next?

Your patient is a 23-year-old male with a stab wound to the abdomen. You have bandaged the wound and are transporting the patient to a trauma center. During your reassessment, you note that the bandage has become soaked with blood. What should your priority be with this patient?

You are caring for a woman who sustained a head injury as a result of a domestic dispute. You suspect she has a closed head injury since she cannot remember what happened and one of her pupils is slightly larger than the other. You have been monitoring her vital signs every 5 minutes and you see that her blood pressure is rising and her pulse is dropping. This part of the assessment is called:

You are transporting a patient who has had her neck slashed from side to side. You and your partner are caring for the patient while a police officer drives you to the hospital, which is minutes away. You are focusing all of your efforts to maintain her airway and your partner is controlling her bleeding. Which of the following will you be unlikely to obtain?

Your patient is an 18-year-old female whom you believe may have had a miscarriage and is bleeding heavily. You have completed your primary and secondary assessments and now you need to reassess her to see if the bleeding has stopped. You should:

Which of the following BEST describes a repeater?

Medical direction has requested that you administer 70 grams of activated charcoal to an overdose patient. Which of the following should you do next?

You have received an order from medical direction that you feel would be detrimental to your patient. Which of the following should you do?

Which of the following describes the importance of effective communication of patient information in the verbal report?

You are attempting to place a non-rebreather mask on a patient who is experiencing difficulty breathing.

The patient is anxious and does not want the mask on his face. Which of the following is the BEST

course of action?

You suspect that a 6-year-old female patient with multiple bruises and a broken wrist was abused. The

stepmother states the patient fell down the stairs. The patient is crying and sheepishly nods in

agreement with the stepmother's statements. How should you document this situation in the patient

report?

You are on a call of a minor vehicle accident. Your patient is a 22-year-old male who was the driver of a

moderate T-Bone collision. The patient was not wearing a seat belt and there was spidering of the

windshield. The patient complains of neck pain and has a scalp laceration. After performing the primary

assessment, you take vital signs and bandage the patient's scalp. When you tell him, you need to

backboard him, he refuses care and ambulance transport. Because the person is alert and oriented to

time, place, and person, you have the patient sign the separate patient refusal form provided by your

service. How should you document this incident in your EMS report?

Which of the following is one of the most common situations in which an EMT may be liable?

You have responded to a call at a government office building. One of the office workers became very upset during a fire drill and experienced an episode of difficulty breathing. As your partner is speaking with the patient, who is not sure she wants to be transported, an individual wearing civilian clothes approaches you and states she is a security guard in the building. She asks you for the "yellow copy" of your prehospital care report. Which of the following should you do?

The portion of the patient care report in which the EMT writes his description of the patient's presentation, assessment findings, treatment, and transport information is called the: