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EMT-B BASIC FINAL EXAM 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
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EMT-B BASIC FINAL EXAM 2024/2025WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses? - Precise Answer
✔✔DOT
Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification. - Precise
Answer ✔✔National Registery
Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in
the field. - Precise Answer ✔✔Medical Control
Recognition, patient assesment, continued assesment and stabilization in
hospital, definitive care. - Precise Answer ✔✔Continuum of Care
Types of stress include: - Precise Answer ✔✔Cumulative, post-
traumatic stress reaction, eustruss, acute stress, and chronic stress
S/S of stress include: - Precise Answer ✔✔Increased respiratory rate,
heart rate, and B/P, vasodilation, dialted pupils, tensed muscles,
increased glucose levels, perspiration, deacreased blood flow to
gastrointestinal tract, irritability, inability to concentrate, difficult or
increased sleeping, anxiety, guilt, loss of appetite, decreased sexual
activity, loss of interest in work, alcholism, drug use.
,Management of stress includes: - Precise Answer ✔✔Eliminate
stressors, change partners, get rid of negative personalities, change work
hours, reduce overtime, change your attitude, don't obsess over what you
can't change, excercise, diet.
Fight or Flight response: - Precise Answer ✔✔During an acute stress
response, the autonomic nervous system is activated and the body
increases level of cotricol, adrenilen, and other hormones that produce
an increased heart rate, quick breathing, and higher BP. Blood is shunted
from extremities to the big muscles to "fight or flight".
Routes of transmission include: - Precise Answer ✔✔Direct - touch or
droplets
Indirect - spread by inanimate objects
Mechanical (vector born) - by insects
Biological - Transmissions by which the germs live or grow
Airborne - sneezes, coughs
Dust - may carry pores, may remain for long periods.
Control and prevention of contamination include? - Precise Answer
✔✔Hand washing, gloves, eye protection, gowns, masks, mask,
respirators, barrier devices, and immunizations.
Duty to Act is? - Precise Answer ✔✔An obligation to provide care.
Duties include: - Precise Answer ✔✔Duty to:
, -Respond
-Obey laws and regulations
-Operate an emergerncy vehicle reasonably and prudently
-Provide care and transportation to expected standard
-Provide care and transport consistent with the scope of practice and
local medicine protocol
-Continue and transport through to its appropriate conclusion
The scope of practice is? - Precise Answer ✔✔Descriptionof what
assessment and treatment skills and EMT may legally perform.
Implied consent is? - Precise Answer ✔✔Consent in which a patient is
unable to give consent and is provided treatment under the implication
they would want treament.
Informed consent is? - Precise Answer ✔✔Permission for treatment
given by a patient after the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to
treatment have been explained.
Ethics - Precise Answer ✔✔The discipline dealing with what is good
and bad.
Standard of care is? - Precise Answer ✔✔The degree of medical care
and skill that is expected of a resonably competent EMT acting in the
same or similar circumstances.
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