EMT Trauma Practice Test 1

You are called to the scene of a pedestrian struck by a car. Upon examination, you notice clear fluid leaking from the patient’s ear that you believe to be cerebral spinal fluid (CSF).

What injury is commonly associated with CSF leaking from the ears?

What does PMS stand for during your assessment of a patient’s lower extremities?

You arrive on the scene of a patient who fell from a ladder. Which of the following information is NOT an important factor in the patient’s care?

You are at the scene of an MVA, in which there are three patients, all of which have minor visible injuries. Two are refusing treatment, and the last is complaining of neck and back pain.

How should you proceed?

Your patient is a 17-year old male found face down in a swimming pool. He is currently being held face-up at the surface of the water. He is unconscious but breathing and has a pulse.

What is the best course of action for this patient?

A laceration, spurting bright red blood, most likely means what type of injury?

Your patient has a laceration to the right leg, intersecting the femoral artery. You have applied direct pressure to the wound, but it continues to soak through the bandages.

What should you do next?

Any penetrating missile traveling over 2,000 ft/sec would be classified as?

When there is penetrating trauma, there is a permanent cavity formed by the projectile contacting the tissues. How is a temporary cavity formed?

The way a patient is injured is often referred to as the _______________?

When approaching a trauma scene, what is your first order of business?

What is a large collection of blood under the skin?

Your trauma patient has her left hand caught between rollers on a conveyor belt. Extrication takes 30 minutes. Evaluation of the injury during extrication showed delayed capillary refill distal to the injury.

Post extrication shows rapid capillary refill distal to the injury deformity mid-palm. There are no obvious fractures, lacerations, or minor swelling.

Knowing that crush injuries can cause many other problems, which is not considered a complication of crush injury?

Loss of tissue in a traumatic event can be: soft tissue, a portion of an extremity, or an entire extremity.

If your patient has lost the distal one-third of a lower extremity, what would that injury be called?

Your 16-year-old trauma patient has what appears to be a mid-shaft femur fracture. You notice a laceration directly over the suspected fracture, and bleeding is controlled.

What type of fracture would this be?