Which of the following is an example of an unsafe scene for an EMT-Basic to enter?
A. Fifty-four-year old male with difficulty breathing
B.
... [Show More] Twenty-three-year old female with abdominal pain
C. Eighteen-year old adolescent with a gunshot wound to the chest
D. Four-year old child with leg pain - C. Eighteen-year old adolescent with a gunshot
wound to the chest
Reason: Any dispatch to a call with violence involved, such as a gunshot wound,
must be secured by police prior to EMS involvement. The other calls do not give any
inidication of being unsafe.
The arterioles connect the _________ and the capillaries.
A. Veins
B. Venules
C. Arteries
D. Vena cavae - C. Arteries
Reason: The path of blood flow goes from the heart to the aorta to the arteries to the
arterioles to the capillaries to the venules to the veins to the vena cavae to the heart.
Which of the following patients is at greatest risk for hypothermia?
A. Thirty-year old firefighter
B. Twelve-year old skier
C. Forty-five year old EMT
D. Seventy-year old librarian - D. Seventy-year old librarian
Reason: The very young and very old are greater rsk for hypothermia
The zygomatic bones are located in the
A. Chest
B. Lower leg
C. Back
D. Face - D. Face
Reason: The zygomatic bones are the cheekbones
Which of the following federal laws was created to prevent "patients dumping" and
the practice of denying treatment to patients with no insurance?
A. Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
B. The White Paper Act
C. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
D. The Medical Practice Act of 1988 - A. Emergency Medical Treatment and Active
Labor Act (EMTALA)
Reason: The EMTALA was enacted by Congress in 1986 to ensure public access to
emergency services regardless of their ability to pay. This act was also created to
prevent hospitals from dumping their patients on other hospitals because of the
patient's financial status. The White Paper (A) was not an act, but was a paper
published in 1966 addressing the inadequacy of pre-hospital emergency medical care.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (C) was created to
protect the provacy of healthcare information. There is no such act as the Medical
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