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Intermediate EMT Test - Trauma Assessment

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1. You suspect a significant mechanism of injury. What order would you conduct the assessment?   Vital signs, SAMPLE history, Rapid trauma assessment   SAMPLE history , Rapid trauma assessment, Focused physical   Rapid trauma assessment, Baseline vitals, SAMPLE history   Focused trauma, SAMPLE, Baseline Vitals

2. A 2 year old has one full leg burned and one full arm burned. What percentage of their body is considered burned?   18 percent   22.5 percent   28 percent   2 percent

3. You arrive on scene to find an 11 year old girl who was struck by a truck while riding her bike. She is unresponsive to painful stimuli and has a large abrasion on her left side. She is breathing at 24 respirations per minute and regular. Your next course of action would be?   C-spine precautions and Administer high flow O2 with a NRB   Splint any fractured extremities   Start Positive pressure ventilation with a BVM   Initiate CPR

4. You and your partner Tom arrive on scene of a gang shooting where the police have secured the area. There are two patients in their teens who have multiple gunshot wounds to the arms, legs, and chest. You would immediately?   Treat the most critical patient while Tom watches your back   Make sure the police have secured the scene and get a SAMPLE   Call for backup and put both patients in the back of your ambulance   Apply 3 sided dressing to the chest wounds and assess breathing while your partner treats the other PT

5. Injury may occur to the internal organs after a traumatic impact. These are termed _______________ injuries.   Acceleration   Deceleration   Central   Hard tissue

6. You arrive on scene to find a man in his 20's lying in a pool of vomit. You can see that he is breathing at about 16 breaths per minute and the depth of respiration is adequate. He has a small laceration on his forehead. You try getting a response by calling "Hey man can you hear me?" but he does not answer. Your partner gives him a quick sternal rub and his eyes pop open along with a whimper under his breath and then they close again. You ask him to perform several motor functions and he does not comply. He does not answer any of your questions. This man has a GCS of what?   14   9   4   7

7. Which intervention would you definitely NOT use if your patient has suffered a fractured tibia?   Traction splinting   Immobilization splinting materials   Air splint   Trauma shears to cut the pants

8. When considering the types of injuries inflicted by guns. You must be aware that:   A bullet travels in a straight line from entry to exit point   The person doing the shooting was probably at a distance   That the person doing the shooting was at a close distance   Bullets cause damage in two different ways

9. Shock caused by injury to the spinal cord would be called?   Hypovolemic   Hypernatrimic   Neurogenic   Spinalgenic

10. You and your partner Gustav arrive on scene of a 2 car motor vehicle accident. The driver of the first car is out and walking around in a daze. The driver of the second car is a male in his 20's who appears to be unconscious. You can tell that the young man in the car is having trouble breathing. You also see what appears to be phone lines down across the hood of his car, but there are no sparks. Your best course of action would be to...?   Get the guy out of the car as quickly as possible   Roll him one of your portable oxygen tanks and an NRB for self administration   Insert an oral adjunct while maintaining c spine   Have dispatch call the power company and keep a safe distance until they have removed the wires

11. It's 8 a.m., you and your partner Raymond are called to a multiple car collision on a busy side street. You arrive on scene and can see at least 6 patients. The cars are a twisted mess and are covering one whole lane of traffic with multiple fluids pooling around the cars. You can hear people crying and traffic is already starting to move around and by the wreck. You should...?   Begin extrication of the patients while your partner calls for more ambulances   Get the fire department in route, establish a safety zone, and assist in keeping traffic at a safe distance   Triage the most critically injured first and then extricate them in order of severity   Inform the patients that you are not allowed by law to enter the zone until it is made safe by law enforcement

12. You arrive on scene with your partner Aaron to a call of an unknown injury/ illness. You pull into the driveway of an apartment building. In the parking area is a woman lying face up with her eyes closed. After making sure the scene is safe, what would be the most efficient means for gathering useful information on this patient?   Check her pulse with your hand - look at her nose for flaring   Check her pulse with your hand while you put your ear near her mouth and look down the sternum for chest rise   Look for the person that reported the call and question them about the event   Start bagging her with high flow O2

13. A 12 year old boy has cut his arm with a pocket knife. The wound is not squirting but is actively bleeding.   This is a venous bleed, best treated with pressure to the brachial artery   This is an arterial bleed, best treated with pressure to the brachial artery   This is a venous bleed, best treated by IV fluid replacement   This is a venous bleed, best treated with direct pressure and elevation of the wound

14. When would you expect a patient to show Battle's sign?   With skull fractures   With rib fractures   With a pelvic fracture   All of the above

15. You have just removed the pants and shirt from a patient who was the victim of multiple stab wounds. These clothes should be?   Left at the scene for police to pick up later   Placed in a paper bag   Placed in a red biohazard bag because they have blood on them   Thrown away immediately

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