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EMT Exam Study Guide

The document is a study guide for Exam 1 covering various medical and anatomical concepts. Key topics include the layers of skin, spinal bones, brain structures, anatomical positions, and the importance of patient care reports. It also addresses body mechanics, communication with dispatch, and differentiates between various medical terms and systems.

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EMT Exam Study Guide

The document is a study guide for Exam 1 covering various medical and anatomical concepts. Key topics include the layers of skin, spinal bones, brain structures, anatomical positions, and the importance of patient care reports. It also addresses body mechanics, communication with dispatch, and differentiates between various medical terms and systems.

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Exam 1 Study Guide

Define the three layers of skin.

Differentiate between Cervical Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral bones of the spine.

Differentiate between Pia, Dura, Arachnoid, and Meningeal space.

Define Brain stem, cerebellum, cerebrum, thalamus.

Define the different anatomical positions: frontal, prone, supine, transverse, midsagittal, midclavicular,
dorsal, ventral, recovery position.

Define the difference between hypoxia, and ischemia.

Why is a PCR (patient care report) important when providing care to a patient, why is it important not to
lie?

What is the relationship between you EMT and medical direction?

How should your approach to a family confronted with death and dying?

What is body mechanics?

What is the difference between tendons and ligaments?

What does “omit” mean?

What are the steps to communicating with dispatch?

How often should you communicate with dispatch?

Differentiate between tarsals and carpals.

Explain patient abandonment, when is it most common?

What BSI would you use for helping with childbirth?

Differentiate between stomach, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine.

How to preserve criminal evidence?

Differentiate between duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and cecum.

What does prefix “dys” mean?

What behavior is prohibited by the FCC?

What body structures represents the upper airway?

Differentiate between plasma, platelets, red blood cells, white cells.

How much oxygen do we breathe in at room air?

Who grants and supervises AED on an ambulance.


What does the prefix “Tachy” mean?

What does EMS Emergency Medical Services represent?

What are the steps to place a patient on a long spine board using body mechanics?

What body structures make up the lower airway?

Differentiate between trade name and generic brand.

What does root, prefix, suffix mean?

What constitutes asking for Police assistance?

What bones make up the chest cavity?

Differentiate between child abuse and child neglect.

What are open-ended questions?

Differentiate between Peripheral, Autonomic, Somatic, Sympathetic nervous systems.

How does our body make ATP?

Describe the hollow and solid organs in the abdomen.

Difference between anaerobic and aerobic metabolism.

What are signs of burnout?

What is scope of practice?

List 3 different types of public health program aimed at prevention.

What needs to happen for an EMT to be charged with Negligence?

What is homeostasis?

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