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NYS EMT-B STATE EXAM 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE ANSWERS
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NYS EMT-B STATE EXAM 2024/2025WITH 100% ACCURATE ANSWERS
An EMS Provider responds to a call and finds an 8- yr old female with
no pulse or respirations. The patient has a history of terminal brain
cancer. The family states the last time she as seen alive was 5 mins prior
to EMS being called. They also state patient has a DNR oder. In NYS,
EMS personnel may accept which of the following DNR instruments as
valid?
Verbal request from family
A. Written non-hospital B. DNR or MOLST form
C. Written healthcare proxy
D. Written living will - Precise Answer ✔✔Written out-of-hospital
DNR
OR MOLST FORM
Implied Consent exists when a patient is suffering from a life-
threatening injury or illness and is:
a. Under police custody
b. A threat to himself and others
c. Under age of 18
d. Unconscious - Precise Answer ✔✔D. unconscious
The opposite of distal is
,a. Superior
b. Medial
c. Lateral
d. Proximal - Precise Answer ✔✔D. Proximal
The chamber of the heart that is most muscular and that pumps the most
blood into the aorta is the
a. Right atrium
b. Left ventricle
c. Right ventricle
d. Left atrium - Precise Answer ✔✔B. LEFT VENTRICLE
In correct sequence
(VERTEBRAE SECTIONS)
and number in each section - Precise Answer ✔✔cervical (7), thoracic
(5), lumbar (12), sacral (5), and coccygeal (4)
The purpose of the first set of vital signs is to: - Precise Answer ✔✔A.
establish a baseline for additional evaluations
PCR has how many spots for writing vital signs? - Precise Answer ✔✔3
spots
When you take the pulse of a patient, you are really
,a. Counting pressure waves of blood that the heart sends through an
artery
b. Feeling the swelling of the vein as each wave of blood passes back to
the heart
c. Noting the heartbeats in the column of blood in a large vein
d. Feeling the vibrations of the heart muscles as they push the blood
through - Precise Answer ✔✔A. counting the pressure waves of blood
that the heart sends through an artery
In people whose skin is darkly pigmented, cyanosis is BEST seen by
observing
a. Mucosal membranes
b. Earlobes
c. Scalp
d. Face - Precise Answer ✔✔A. mucosal membranes
You are treating an alert 35-year old trauma patient. You palpate a
strong radial pulse of 100. Your partner has taken the patient's blood
pressure and advised you that it is 68/32. You should:
a. Suspect the accuracy of the pressure reading and reevaluate it
b. Accept the reading as accurate
c. Ask you partner to retake BP reading again in 15 min
d. Treat patient for hypertension immediately - Precise Answer ✔✔A.
suspect the accuracy of the pressure reading and reevaluate it yourself
, A correct statement about diastolic blood pressure is that it is the
pressure
a. Exists when heart left ventricle is refilling
b. Due to the contraction of the ventricles of the heart
c. Caused by contraction of the atria of heart
d. Caused by relaxation of the walls of the major arteries - Precise
Answer ✔✔d. Caused by relaxation of the walls of the major arteries
All of the following are symptoms EXCEPT?
a. Headache
b. Weak pulse
c. Chest pain
d. Nausea - Precise Answer ✔✔B. weak pulse
sign vs symptom - Precise Answer ✔✔a sign is a physical manifestation
(objective)- something you can measure
symptom is what the patient tells you about the disease (subjective)
For a patient with a suspected lumbar spinal injury, the BEST device for
moving the patient as a single unit over uneven terrain is the:
A. wheeled stretcher
B. long spine board
C. flexible stretcher
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