ESP for the Students

 Emergency Medicine

?Read each item carefully and select the best choice.

1. Generally state law ………… the EMT-B’s scope of practice.

         a. reflects                           b. trains                           c. converts                             d. identifies

2. Providing   oxygen under the appropriate  ………… is within the EMT-B,s scope of practice.

         a. standards                        b. importance                  c. significance                        d. circumstances

3. Your EMS system’s medical director ………… the day –to-day guidelines.

         a. installs                            b. expects                        c. establishes                         d. consents

4. The standards of care would ………… as the care expected of an EMT-Basic.

         a. be defined                       b. defined                        c. define                                 d. be to define

5. Falling below the standard of care would ………… negligence.

         a. function                           b. constitute                    c. recognize                           d. operate

6. Your ………… to provide service is referred too as duty to act.

         a. resuscitation                   b. expertise                     c. differentiation                    d. obligation

7. While off duty, you could pass the ………… and call for help.

         a. scenario                          b. scenary                        c. scene                                  d. ceiling

8. While on duty, you ………… to care for a patient who requires it.

         a. must                                b. have                             c. are obligated                     d. b&c

9. My secretary is perfectly competent, but she doesn’t have enough …………  .

         a. initiative                         b. considerate                 c. direction                             d. orientation

10. In “perinatal” , the prefix “peri-“means …………

         a. offer                                b. before                          c. beside                                d. around

11. In “Leukemia” , the suffix-“ia” means…………

         a. inflammation                  b. pertaining to                c. related to                           d. condition

  12. In “anemia” there is/are ………… .

         a. one prefix and one suffix

         b. a prefix, a root and a suffix

         c. only one root

         d. only one suffix and the root

13. The government has ………… certain drugs.

         a. illegal                              b. legalized                      c. legally                                d. legal

14. You have to make a ………… arrangement.

         a. providence                      b. provision                     c. provider                             d. providable

15. A breach of the duty  to act is when the EMT-Basic ………… from the standard of care.

         a. deviates                          b. avoids                          c. prevents                             d. neglects

16. Gross negligence is care that is delivered …………  as being dangerous .

         a. charged                           b. intended                      c. construed                           d. failed

17. Before emergency care is ………… , the patient must be informed of the care.

         a. departed                         b. abandoned                   c. administered                      d. rendered

18. If the plaintiff cannot prove all four elements, the ………… will fail.

         a. injury                              b. suit                               c. damage                              d. compensation

19. once a patient relationship has been established, it can not be ………… .

         a. terminated                      b. proximated                  c. constituted                         d. followed

20. The reported tried to ………… the scope of the report by more interviews.

         a. broadcast                        b. supervise                     c. broaden                              d. authorize

21. There has been a ………… improvement in the company’s trading position..

         a. private                            b. proximate                    c. prudent                              d. slight