Demo Test

1. Repeaters are used to:

Record vital information for later use

Transfer and further a radio communication

Get the patient to communicate with you

Repeat what was just said

2. A motor vehicle accident has occurred right in front of your ambulance and requires the patients to be extricated. Your first choice of location to accomplish the rapid extrication should be the?

Cut off roof

Broken window

Open broken windshield

The door

3. You and your partner Pepe arrive on scene to find a man in his early twenties with a large gash on his forearm that is spurting blood. You immediately apply pressure with your gloved hand as Pepe hands you a trauma dressing. The patient is pale with a weak rapid pulse and respirations of 30 breaths per minute. As you are finishing your initial assessment and bandaging the wound the PT tells you to "get away" from him. Your best course of action would be to do what?

Have Pepe wrestle him onto the stretcher.

Explain to the patient that you are almost finished bandaging his wound and you will leave him alone then

Stop bandaging the wound and call for police assistance in restraining the patient for transport

Tell the patient you cannot leave him until the wound is bandaged and then restrain him to the stretcher

4. An ambulance unit or fire department that makes an uncoordinated, independent decision during an incident is said to be:

Soloing

Spear Heading

Bird Dogging

Freelancing

5. An EMT may be charged with abandonment if they?

Don't rescue a patient in a burning building

Do something to a patient that results in injury to the patient

Leave a patient without the patient's consent and without equal or higher level care.

Leave a patient who is triaged green to assist a patient who is triaged red

6. A train derailment has caused two tanker cars to explode and several others to begin leaking an unknown gas. The size of the affected area is large and crosses several county lines. According to NIMS, this type of MCI would benefit most from a:

Multiple Command System

Unified Command System

Singular Command System

Coordinated Command System

7. NIMS is best explained as:

A National system of managing large emergencies based on having private and governmental organizations work independently at the scene of a mass casualty

A systematic approach of assessment used during the triage of large groups of people during a mass casualty incident

Governmental rescue organizations taking responsibility for controlling the parts of the scene that fall within their expertise

A template system for providing consistent, effective processes in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from an incident

8. What authority has jurisdiction over radio transmissions made during a call?

PTA

FCC

NRA

FCT

9. You are called to the scene of a woman who is having difficulty breathing. Upon arrival you notice several people surrounding the woman who seems to be agitated. Your scene assessment determines it to be safe and you approach the woman who is in the tripod position. Her breathing is rapid and shallow. She states her ribs hurt after being struck with a punch from her husband. You should?

Call law enforcement and leave the scene until they arrive

Treat the patient if the situation appears safe and inform law enforcement of the possible assault when the time is appropriate

Call the husband out for hitting a woman and make him look dumb in front of the rest of the family

Inform the woman that she will have to go to the hospital if she wants to get treated. This environment is not safe

10. When transmitting a number with two or more digits you should say the whole number first, followed by:

Saying it again

Saying each number individually

Saying, "Do you copy?"

Saying it in Spanish

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