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Written exam begins when State Proctor arrives. ▶ Proctors possess all testing materials. ▶ Please have photo identification ready. ▶ Proctors are not normally EMTs and cannot answer any questions regarding exam. ▶ NYS Written Exam consists of 110 multiple choice questions. ▶ 10 of these questions will be experimental. ▶ Answer ALL 110 questions as if each of them counts! ▶ Take yourtime!You are allotted two and a half hours to complete this exam. ▶ Use only a #2 Penci
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Written exam begins when State Proctor arrives.
▶ Proctors possess all testing materials.
▶ Please have photo identification ready.
▶ Proctors are not normally EMTs and cannot answer any questions regarding exam.
NYS Written Exam consists of 110 multiple choice questions.
▶ 10 of these questions will be experimental.
▶ Answer ALL 110 questions as if each of them counts!
▶ Take your time! You are allotted two and a half hours to complete this exam.
▶ Use only a #2 Pencil
If you have difficulty with a question, eliminate answers you know to be wrong.
▶ If you still ABSOLUTELY cannot identify the correct answer, choose the longest of your remaining possible
answers.
▶ Upon test completion, go back and review all of your answers.
▶ If you need scrap paper, ask for it!
Some Practice Questions…
Implied Consent exists when a patient is suffering from a life-threatening injury or illness and:
◦ (^) 1. under police custody
◦ (^) 2. a threat to himself/herself and others around him/her
◦ (^) 3. under 18 years of age
◦ (^) 4. unconscious
The opposite of distal is:
◦ (^) 1. superior
◦ (^) 2. medial
◦ (^) 3. lateral
◦ (^) 4. proximal
In correct sequence, from the head to the feet, the names of the groups of vertebrae are the:
◦ (^) 1. cervical, lumbar, sacral, thoracic and coccygeal
◦ (^) 2. cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal
◦ (^) 3. cervical, lumbar, thoracic, sacral, and coccygeal
◦ (^) 4. cervical, thoracic, sacral, lumbar, and coccygeal
The purpose of the first set of vital signs is to:
◦ (^) 1. establish a baseline for additional evaluations
◦ (^) 2. determine all that is necessary for the pre-hospital care report (PCR)
◦ (^) 3. accurately measure the patient’s status
◦ (^) 4. fully assess the patient’s
In people whose skin is darkly pigmented, cyanosis is BEST seen by observing:
◦ (^) 1. under the tongue
◦ (^) 2. earlobes
◦ (^) 3. scalp
◦ (^) 4. face
You are treating an alert 35-year-old trauma patient. You palpate a strong radial pulse of 100. Your
partner has taken the patient’s blood pressure and advised you that it is 68/32. You should:
◦ (^) 1. suspect the accuracy of the pressure reading and reevaluate it
◦ (^) 2. accept the reading as accurate
◦ (^) 3. ask your partner to take the blood pressure reading again in 15 minutes
◦ (^) 4. treat the patient for hypertension immediately
Which of the following is an example of a symptom?
◦ (^) 1. cyanosis
◦ (^) 2. chest pain
◦ (^) 3. dilated pupils
◦ (^) 4. low blood pressure
For a patient with suspected lumbar spinal injury, the BEST device for moving the patient as a
single unit over uneven terrain is the:
◦ (^) 1. wheeled stretcher
◦ (^) 2. long spine board
◦ (^) 3. flexible stretcher
◦ (^) 4. short spine board
Unless additional suctioning time is necessary to clear the airway, an adult patient should be suctioned
for NO LONGER THAN:
During single-rescuer CPR, which of the following ventilation devices would be MOST EFFECTIVE for
ventilating a patient?
◦ (^) 1. non-rebreathing mask
◦ (^) 2. pocket mask with oxygen
◦ (^) 3. flow-restricted, oxygen-powered ventilation device (FROPVD)
◦ (^) 4. Bag-valve-mask without oxygen
