2024-2025 NYS EMT Practice Exam with Answers (98 Solved Questions)

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NYS EMT EXAM PRACTICE
TEST #1 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2024/2025
CORRECT
The role of the EMS Provider is to do all of the following except:
a) perform primary assessment
b) provide initial resuscitation
c) provide definite diagnosis
d) package patients for transportation
c) provide definitive diagnosis
In what position should an unconscious overdose patient be transported to a
hospital?
a) on their side, with feet elevated
b) on their side
c) seated, with head tilted back and legs elevated
d) face down, with head elevated
b) on their side
Which of the following pieces of equipment is especially designed and useful for
removing patients from heights or for carrying them over rough terrain or rubble?
a) splint fram stretcher
b) full spine board
c) stokes basket
d) D-ring stretcher

c) stokes basket
The prehospital care report (PCR) is considered to be:
a) a part of the patient's hospital chart
b) a matter of public record
c) inadmissible in a court of law
d) a research document only
a) a part of the patient's hospital chart
EMS providers must be certified to perform legally at their level of training. the
NYS law that establishes this level is the:
a) good samaritan law
b) general municipal law
c) medical license law
d) public health law
d) public health law
If consent is refused by a conscious and mentally competent adult, that person
CANNOT be treated without:
a) consent from the immediate family
b) a court of order
c) consent from the police
d) orders from medical control
d) orders from medical control
You are called to a rural home by the mother of a 4 year old girl. Upon arrival, you
begin to treat a dog-bite wound on the girl's arm when the girl's father comes into
the house and tells you to leave her alone. The mother asks you to continue your
care of the child. Faced with the situation above, you should:
a) separate both parents from the child and sort our the consent issues
b) continue care of the girl in her mother's presence and notify police

c) call the children services division of the state for permission to continue care
d) immediately cease care of the child according to her father's wishes
b) continue care of the girl in her mother's presence and notify police
Providing care within the scope practice would be considered to be an
accordance with:
a) the sovereign immunity doctrine
b) state law
c) professional conduct
d) institutional standards
B) state law
An accident victim who is a minor has blood spurting from the brachial artery.
The parents are not present. Which one of the following actions should the EMS
provider take?
a) contact the receiving hospital by radio for permission to proceed with
treatment
b) get permission from the police to process with treatment
c) take the child to the hospital but provide no treatment
d) presume that parental consent is implied and proceed with treatment
d) presume that parental consent is implied and proceed with treatment
You are called to the residence of a 74-year-old female who has fallen and has a
large area of ecchymosis on her left hip. You are met by a neighbor, who was
caring for the patient while her daughter was out of town. The neighbor explains
that the patient has a history of Alzheimer's and presents a NYS Department of
Health Non-Hospital Order Not to Resuscitate (DNR) form. This patient is unable
to communicate, so you should:
a) contact medical control to have the DNR overridden
b) treat the patient for a potential hip fracture
c) explain to the neighbor that the patient cannot be treated since there is no one

present to give informed consent
d) explain to the neighbor that a DNR prevents the patient from being treated and
suggest that the neighbor contact the issuing physician to have the order
canceled
b) treat the patient for a potential hip fracture
approximately how many liters of blood does an adult male weighing 150 lbs have
in his body?
a) 3 liters
b) 4 liters
c) 6 liters
d) 7 liters
c) 6 liters
An EMS provider responds to a call and finds an 80-year-old female with no pulse
or respirations. The patient has a history of terminal brain cancer. The family
states that the last time she was seen alive was just 5 minutes prior calling EMS.
They also state that the patient has a DNR order. In New York State, EMS
personnel may accept which of the following DNR instruments as valid?
a) Verbal request from the family
b) Written nonhospital DNR
c) Written healthcare proxy
d) Written living will
b) written nonhospital DNR
the opposite of distal is:
a) superior
b) medial
c) lateral
d) proximal

d) proximal
The alveoli of the lungs are in close contact with the:
a)Diaphragm
b) Main-stem bronchus
c) Pulmonary capillaries
d) Pulmonary arteries
c) pulmonary capillaries
The tubelike anatomical structure that carries air from the throat to the lungs is
the:
a) Pharynx
b) Larynx
c) Trachea
d) Esophagus
c) trachea
The smooth glistening membranous sac in the body that surrounds each lung is
called the: a) Pleura
b) Diaphragm
c) Mesentery
d) Peritoneum
a) pleura
The oropharyngeal airway is MOST APPROPRIATELY used in a/an:
a) Conscious patient who is breathing spontaneously
b) Unconscious patient with and upper airway obstruction
c) Unconscious patient being ventilated by a bag-valve-mask
d) Patient with trauma to the mouth
c) unconscious patient being ventilated by a bag-value-mask

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You are suctioning a trauma patient who has large blood clots present in the
mouth. You should:
a) Use alcohol to clear blood clots from the suction tip
b) Insert the suction tip with the vacuum on
c) Sweep the clots out of the mouth before suctioning
d) Ensure that your suction unit does not exceed 200 mm Hg of negative pressure
c) Sweep the clots out of the mouth before suctioning
Which liter flow is INAPPROPRIATE for oxygen administration via a nasal
cannula?
a) 1-2 liters/minute
b) 3-1 liters/minute
c) 5-6 liters/minute
d) 7-8 liters/minute
d) 7-8 liters/minute
Food and liquids are prevented from entering the trachea by the:
a) Epiglottis
b) Diaphragm
c) Pharynx
d) Larynx
a) epiglottis
In caring for a non-breathing patient with a stoma or tracheotomy tube, the EMS
Provider must:
a) Use a nasopharyngeal airway
b) Use extra force with each ventilation
c) Cover the neck opening
d) Ventilate through the neck opening
d) Ventilate through the neck opening

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When you arrive at a scene of a motor vehicle accident, your FIRST concern must
be:
a) Protect the scene from oncoming traffic
b) Ensure your own safety
c) Gain access to victims
d) Secure and stabilize the vehicle or vehicles involved
b) Ensure your own safety
While assessing the mechanism of injury at the motor vehicle crash, an EMS
Provider notice that the airbag has been deployed. The EMS Provider should:
a) Decontaminate the patient
b) Remove airbag
c) Disconnect the battery
d) Lift the airbag and check underneath for damage
d) Lift the airbag and check underneath for damage
In people whose skin is darkly pigmented, cyanosis is BEST seen by observing:
a) Mucosal membranes
b) Earlobes
c) Scalp
d) Face
a) Mucosal membranes
A 65-year-old male was involved in a two-car motor vehicle crash. Upon
examination, he complains of chest pain when breathing and tenderness of the
sternum. Your INITIAL care should include:
a) Stabilizing the sternum
b) Positioning the patient on his side
c) Administering high-concentration oxygen
d) Administering the patients prescribed nitroglycerin

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c) Administering high-concentration oxygen
In assessing a pediatric trauma patients capillary refill time, an abnormal finding
would be a refill time, an abnormal finding would be a refill time of:
a) Greater than 5 seconds
b) Less than 2 seconds
c) Greater than 2 seconds
d) Greater than 4 seconds
c) Greater than 2 seconds
A patient with acute respiratory distress requiring oxygen therapy is LEAST likely
to exhibit:
a) A slow pulse rate
b) Anxiety
c) Nasal flaring
d) Intercostal muscle retractions
a) A slow pulse rate
In an unstable patient, the primary assessment should be repeated at least every:
a) 2 minutes
b) 5 minutes
c) 10 minutes
d) 15 minutes
b) 5 minutes
When you take a pulse of a patient, you are really:
a) Counting the pressure waves of blood that the heart sends through an artery
b) Feeling the swelling of the vein as each wave of blood passes back to the heart
c) Noting the heartbeats in the column of blood in a large vein
d) Feeling the vibration of the heart as they push the blood through the blood
vessels

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