Q 01/05

What does the abbreviation EMT stand for?

A) Emergency mobile team

B) Essential medical treatment

C) Emergency medical technician

D) Emergency medical transporter

Answer · why

C) Emergency medical technician

EMTs mostly serve on ambulances and in fire departments, and provide basic life support under physician-written protocols.

Q 02/05

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recognises how many levels of EMS certification?

A) Six

B) Eight

C) Ten

D) Four

Answer · why

D) Four

Emergency medical responder, EMT, advanced EMT and paramedic; the current system replaced the old EMT-Basic and EMT-Intermediate labels by 2014.

Q 03/05

Roughly how many hours of training does a paramedic, the highest prehospital level, typically complete?

A) About 40 to 80

B) 1,500 to 2,500 or more

C) About 120 to 300

D) About 500 to 800

Answer · why

B) 1,500 to 2,500 or more

A basic EMT course is a few hundred hours at most; paramedics also do advanced airway management and manual defibrillation.

Q 04/05

Roughly how many hours of classroom training does a basic EMT course require in the United States?

A) 120 to 300

B) 40 to 80

C) 500 to 800

D) 1,500 or more

Answer · why

A) 120 to 300

Fast-track courses cram it into two weeks of 8-to-12-hour days; paramedic degree programs run up to two years.

Q 05/05

An ambulance staffed only by EMTs is called what kind of unit?

A) Rapid response

B) Basic life support (BLS)

C) Advanced life support (ALS)

D) Critical care

Answer · why

B) Basic life support (BLS)

Add paramedics and it becomes an ALS unit; AEMTs make it an intermediate life support unit.