NYS EMT-B WRITTEN REVIEW QUESTIONS & ANSWERS(RATED A)
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NYS EMT STATE WRITTEN 2024
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NYS EMT STATE WRITTEN 2024
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 m...
NYS EMT-B WRITTEN REVIEW
QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS(RATED A)
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? - ANSWER Written out-of-hospital DNR
Implied Consent exists when a patient is suffering from a life-threatening injury or
illness and is: - ANSWER unconscious
The opposite of distal is - ANSWER Proximal
The chamber of the heart that is most muscular and that pumps the most blood
into the aorta is the - ANSWER LEFT VENTRICLE
In correct sequence
(VERTEBRAE SECTIONS) - ANSWER cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal
**The purpose of the first set of vital signs is to: - ANSWER establish a baseline for
additional evaluations
, When you take the pulse of a patient, you are really - ANSWER counting the
pressure waves of blood that the heart sends through an artery
In people whose skin is darkly pigmeneted, cyanosis is BEST seen by observing -
ANSWER under the tongue
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: - 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 -
ANSWER a-exists when the heart's left ventricle is refilling
(OR heart
**While performing ventilations on an infant or child in respiratory arrest, you
should ventilate every - ANSWER 3-5 seconds
**The oropharyngeal airway will help keep the tongue away from the - ANSWER
epiglottis
You are called to the home of a patient who is on physician prescribed low-
concentration oxygen and who is NOT in acute respiratory distress. Which type of
oxygen delivery device should you use during transport?
- NRB
- Flow-restricted, oxygen-powered ventilation device (FROPVD)
**An EMS provider is treating a patient who has a head injury resulting from a
blow by a baseball bat. What other problem are likely to be present?
- Hypothermia
- Hypertensive shock due to blood loss
- Spinal injuries
- Lung collapse - ANSWER Spinal injuries
In a HEALTHY person, respiration is controlled by level
- carbon dioxide
- blood sugar
- oxygen
- carbon monoxide - ANSWER carbon dioxide
- normal stimulus to breathe: HIGH CO2
could be oxygen if talking ab process of repsiration
In conducting the Primary Assessment of a conscious patient, the EMS provider
must attend to the patient's emergency needs in the order of: - ANSWER
Respiration, Pulse, Bleeding
A patient with acute respiratory distress requiring oxygen therapy is LEAST likely to
exhibit:
- a slow pulse rate
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