EMT Operations Practice Test 1

When your patient does not speak English, it is best to

You are dispatched to the scene of a 9-year-old female who has been struck by a car. Police are unable to reach her parents. What gives you the ability to treat the patient?

You are dispatched to 123 Somewhere Rd. to a call for an injured woman. As you approach the home, a man opens the door and tells you, “This is none of your business. Get out of here.”

What is the best course of action in this case?

If a patient refuses treatment and an EMT treats the patient anyway, what crime can the EMT be charged with?

What law protects from legal action to someone who provides help to an injured person?

While responding, ambulances are particularly at risk of collisions in which areas?

Headlights are often overlooked as part of the emergency warning lighting system. Headlights should be used while______________?

While responding to a hazardous materials incident, the EMT should approach the scene from _________?

EMS should set up in which zone during a HazMat incident?

When is it acceptable to take a patient directly from the hot zone of a HazMat without going through decontamination?

You have called an air medical service to come to pick up your accident victim from the scene. The helicopter contacts you when they are 5 minutes out.

They ask for landing zone (LZ) information.

Which of the following should be included in this safety brief?

Which of the following patients would be appropriate for air medical transport from your scene?

When you arrive at the receiving facility you must transfer care to the ED staff. By reporting to the attending nursing staff about the past medical history, the patient’s complaint assessment, and interventions you have just allowed for what?

Arriving on the scene of a multi-car accident, the EMT tells dispatch they have arrived and what they have found. “Squad 3 is on scene. There is a three-car accident.

All patients are out and walking on scene.”

What is this information called?

How should an EMT position their vehicle upon arrival at the scene?