ASHI AFA Test Sample Questions
What is the most advanced pre-hospital responder? - ✔✔Paramedic
What are the four levels of EMS training? - ✔✔EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic
Whose safety is the most important? - ✔✔Your own
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ASHI AFA Test Sample Questions
What is the most advanced pre-hospital responder? - ✔✔Paramedic
What are the four levels of EMS training? - ✔✔EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic
Whose safety is the most important? - ✔✔Your own
What way to contact EMS is the most reliable? - ✔✔Landline
What is the name of the physician in charge of the EMS system and the care they
provide? - ✔✔Medical Director
Who do you advocate for? - ✔✔The patient
What is it called when respecting someone's privacy and HIPPA? - ✔✔Confidentiality
What is it called when you are required by law to act in an emergency? - ✔✔Duty of
care (ASHI), or duty to act (Red Cross)
What laws do NOT protect you while on duty? - ✔✔Good Samaritan laws
What must you get before caring for a responsive victim? - ✔✔Consent
Is an unconscious victim implied consent? - ✔✔Yes, if they are an adult or a child
without parents
What is negligence? - ✔✔Failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable
person would give under similar circumstances
What must you do if someone refuses care? - ✔✔Document it
What is someone required by law to report suspected abuse or neglect? - ✔✔Mandated
Reporter
What is Jason allergic to? - ✔✔NSAIDs
What is the most common advanced directive? - ✔✔DNR
What must you see before ceasing care due to a DNR? - ✔✔See and understand the
full DNR order
If you begin care for an unconscious victim then get up and leave, what could you be
accused of? - ✔✔Abandonment
What is the first thing you do when you arrive on scene? - ✔✔Size up the scene
What does the S in SETUP mean? - ✔✔Stop
What does the E in SETUP mean? - ✔✔Environment
What does the T in SETUP mean? - ✔✔Traffic
What does the U in SETUP mean? - ✔✔Unknown hazard
What does the P in SETUP mean? - ✔✔Protect yourself
What are germs that cause disease called? - ✔✔Pathogens
What are the four ways that exposure to pathogen occurs? - ✔✔Ingestion, Inhalation,
Absorption, Injection
What term is used to describe infection protection measures? - ✔✔Standard
precautions
What does BSI mean? - ✔✔Body substance isolation, (PPE in red cross)
What are the basic methods of BSI? - ✔✔Gloves, eye protection, masks
What is a stressor? - ✔✔Any event that puts a great amount of mental and emotional
stress on a person
What is stress? - ✔✔Stress is tension, or mental and emotional strain
What ways can stress manifest? - ✔✔Physical, emotional, and behavioral
What is a good way to manage stress? - ✔✔Get regular exercise
What does Jenny hate? - ✔✔Acronyms
What does Anterior mean? - ✔✔Front of the body
What does Posterior mean? - ✔✔Back of the body
What does Medial mean? - ✔✔Toward the midline of the body
What does Lateral mean? - ✔✔Toward the side of the body
What does Proximal mean? - ✔✔Closer to the torso
What does Distal mean? - ✔✔Further from the torso
What does Inferior mean? - ✔✔Toward the feet
What does Superior mean? - ✔✔Toward the head
What are the four body cavities? - ✔✔Head, chest, abdomen, pelvis
What are the parts of the respiratory system? - ✔✔Nose, mouth, trachea, lungs
What is breathing also called? - ✔✔Respiration
The circulatory system is made of what? - ✔✔Heart, blood, vessels
Oxygenated blood travels through what? - ✔✔Arteries
Deoxygenated blood travels through what? - ✔✔Veins
What is the musculoskeletal system made of? - ✔✔Muscles and bones
What role does the musculoskeletal system have? - ✔✔Movement, protection of
organs, support, and blood cell production
What is the nervous system made of? - ✔✔Brain, spinal cord, and nerves
What are the two parts of the nervous system? - ✔✔central and peripheral
What are the layers of the skin? - ✔✔Epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous
What layer of skin does nerves lay in? - ✔✔Dermis
All but which body cavity can hide a fatal amount of blood? - ✔✔head
The brain controls respiration by adjusting breathing rate and what? - ✔✔Volume
Which layer of skin provides protection against pathogens? - ✔✔Epidermis
What is it called when you use a set of techniques designed to limit personal injury
when moving a patient? - ✔✔body mechanics
When would you use an emergent move? - ✔✔When there is an immediate threat to
the life of the patient
What are the basic concepts of body mechanics? - ✔✔feet a comfortable distance
apart, lift with legs, avoid leaning, minimize twisting and movement, keep weight as
close to body as possible
What is by far the most important move? - ✔✔Recovery position
What side is the patient on while in the recovery position? - ✔✔Their side
What are the most common emergent moves? - ✔✔Recovery position, log roll,
extremity lift, stair chair, chair lift, and clothes drag
What percent oxygen is the air? - ✔✔21
How do you care for complete airway obstruction in a conscious victim? - ✔✔abdominal
thrusts
Care for a partial airway obstruction? - ✔✔Encourage the victim to cough
What are the two ways to open an airway? - ✔✔Head tilt/chin lift, and jaw-thrust
What method to check breathing should be used on a spinal victim? - ✔✔Jaw-thrust
What do you do when an unconscious victim vomits? - ✔✔Roll them on their side to
clear the airway
One inhalation + one exhalation =? - ✔✔One respiration
How many times does breathing occur a day? - ✔✔18000
What are some signs of respiratory difficulty (distress)? - ✔✔Increased work of
breathing, shortness of breath, using accessory muscles, panicked look, pronounced
movement of chest and abdo
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