Download EMT Emergency Care Chapter 1 Exam Questions with Complete Solutions designated agent - An and more Exams Medicine in PDF only on Docsity!
EMT Emergency Care Chapter 1 Exam
Questions with Complete Solutions
designated agent - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -an EMT or other person authorized by a Medical Director to give medications and provide emergency care
Off-line medical direction - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -consists of standing orders issued by Medical Direcctor that allows EMT s to give certain medications or perform certain procedures without speaking to Medical Director or another physician
On-line medical direction - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -orders from the on-duty physician given directly to an EMT in the field by radio or telephone
911 system - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -a system for telephone access to report emergencies
Medical Direction - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -oversight of the patient care aspects of an EMS system by the Medical Director
Medical Director - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -a physician who assumes the ultimate responsibility for the patient-care aspects of the EMS system
Quality Improvement - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -A process of continuous self-review with the purpose of identifying and correcting aspects of the system that requires improvement.
Protocols - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -list of steps, such as assessment and interventions, to be taken in different situations
Standing Order - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -a policy or protocol issued by a Medical Director that authorizes EMTs and others to perform particular skills in certain situations
Evidence Based - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -description of medical techniques or practices that are supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy rather than merely supposition and tradition
Patient outcomes - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -the long-term survival of pateints
the earliest documented emergency med. service was in: - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -France, 1790 's
In 1966 the_________ charged the United States __________ with developing the EMS standards and helping the states to upgrade the quality of their pre-hospital emergency care - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -National Highway Safety Act; Department of Transportation
3 major components of Nat. Highway Traffic Safety Administration's EMS system assessment standards - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -transportation, communications, evaluation
US department of transportation provides for national levels of EMS training in all of the following - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -(not advanced first aid) advanced EMT, emergency medical responder, paramedic
The major emphasis of EMT education deals with _________ of the ill or injured patient in the pre-hospital setting - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -basic assessment and care
patient care provided by the EMT should be: - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -based on assessment findings
an example of ensuring continuity in during the transfer of care of the patient would be: - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -providing pertinent information to hospital staff
patient advocacy is - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -speaking up for your patient
Good personality traits are very important to the EMT. You should be: - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -pleasant, cooperative, resourceful, neat/clean, leader, controlled
AN EMT who is not in control of personal habits might: - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -contaminate patient's wounds, render improper care, make inappropriate decisions
to prevent violating patient confidentiality, the EMT should - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -avoid inappropriate conversation with others
AN EMT may maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills through continuing educations such as:
- Answer ✔️ ✔️ -attending EMS conferences
Specific areas of responsibility for EMT: - Answer ✔️ ✔️ -personal safety, safety of crew, patient, & bystanders, patient assessment, lifting and moving, transport, transfer of care, patient advocacy
