Medical Tests EMT-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Medical Tests EMT-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 111:

  What are the signs and symptoms of shock?

  A. Decreased heart rate, hypertension, increased respirations
  B. Increased heart rate, increased respirations, hypotension
  C. Decreased respirations, increased heart rate, hypertension
  D. Decreased heart rate, increased respirations, hypotension
  B. Increased heart rate, increased respirations, hypotension

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• Question 112:

  You are in charge of devising an ambulance deployment plan for the EMS system within your community. Your goal is to minimize response times while simultaneously using all of the EMS resources in an efficient and cost effective manner. As such, which of the following information would be most valuable in formulating a plan?

  A. Location of previous ambulance collisions
  B. Time and location of calls over last 5 years
  C. Average age of the population
  D. Socioeconomic status of neighborhoods
  B. Time and location of calls over last 5 years

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• Question 113:

  Select the best technique or device to use if extremity bleeding does not stop with pressure.

  A. tourniquet with limb elevation
  B. tourniquet
  C. limb elevation with pressure dressing
  D. occlusive dressing over a pressure dressing with limb elevation
  B. tourniquet

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• Question 114:

  As the head of the Quality Assurance Committee for your service, you review all patient care reports prior to passing them on to the medical director. On one trip sheet, you note the following narrative: Patient states that he cannot move his bowls and has had abdominal pane for three weeks. Patient also states that he has had a fever and took too Tylenol tablets this morning, but then became nauseated.

  What advice would you give the paramedic regarding this report?

  A. Have the EMT-B do all of the documenting.
  B. Make up abbreviations for any words he is unsure of how to spell.
  C. Only document what you know how to spell.
  D. Get a dictionary and look up any questionable words when documenting.
  D. Get a dictionary and look up any questionable words when documenting.

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• Question 115:

  Asthma generally produces ______ sounds and is often auscultated in the _______.

  A. Wheezing, lower airway
  B. Wheezing, upper airway
  C. Wheezing and Chyene Stokes, lower airway
  D. Rhonchi, lower airway
  A. Wheezing, lower airway

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• Question 116:

  Status epilepticus is a seizure that:

  A. Lasts longer than 5 minutes.
  B. Is experienced only on one side of the body.
  C. Produces apnea.
  D. Begins again after one seizure stops without the patient regaining consciousness.
  D. Begins again after one seizure stops without the patient regaining consciousness.

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• Question 117:

  In any traumatic event where there is tissue damage which is bleeding, the bleeding needs to be controlled. Which is the proper steps to bleeding control?

  A. Direct pressure, elevation, tourniquet, digital pressure
  B. Direct pressure, digital pressure, elevation, tourniquet
  C. Tourniquet, elevation, pressure dressing, direct pressure
  D. Direct pressure, pressure dressing, tourniquet
  B. Direct pressure, digital pressure, elevation, tourniquet

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• Question 118:

  What are the rules or standards that govern the conduct of EMS professionals?

  A. Codes
  B. Ethics
  C. Standards
  D. Morals
  B. Ethics

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• Question 119:

  You must follow protocol when using the radio in your emergency vehicle. Which of the following is NOT required by this protocol?

  A. Press the push to talk button and wait two seconds for the carrier frequency to establish the connection.
  B. Monitor the frequency for several seconds to be certain it is not currently in use.
  C. Hold the mike approximately two inches from your mouth.
  D. Transmit all pertinent information about the patient to the hospital using coded language.
  D. Transmit all pertinent information about the patient to the hospital using coded language.

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• Question 120:

  Anaphyltic shock is a form of distributive shock where the blood vessels _____.

  A. Dilate
  B. Constrict
  C. Leak
  D. Semipermible
  A. Dilate

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