quiz 3 Flashcards
Which of the following should you do when reaching for something?
All of the answers are correct.
When lifting a patient, a basic principle is to:
know your lifting limits.
Which of the following devices should be used to carry a patient down the stairs whenever possible?
stair chair
You have responded to a multiple casualty incident involving an overturned bus. Patients have been thrown around the interior of the bus and several are piled on top of each other. What type of move would you perform to gain access to the most critically injured patients?
Emergency move
Which of the following is another name for an ambulance cot?
Wheeled ambulance stretcher
A comfortable device that can be used to transport a patient in the supine position who has sustained a spinal injury is a:
Vacuum mattress
Which of the following patients should NOT be transported in a stair chair?
A patient with a suspected spinal injury.
What type of move should the EMT use to move a patient who is in a burning car?
Emergency move
Stretchers that are designed to carry obese patients up to 800 pounds are called:
bariatric stretcher
During an emergency move, which of the following techniques should be used, whenever possible, to minimize the possibility of further aggravating a possible spinal injury?
Move the patient in the direction of the long axis of the body.
You and your partner arrive on the scene of a 400-pound patient lying in bed. He complains of nausea and vomiting for the past 3 days. When he tries to sit up, he gets very dizzy and has a syncopal episode. Realizing that he cannot assist you in getting on the stretcher, you decide to do which of the following?
Call for additional manpower to move the patient.
Which of the following should you use when you want to move a patient from a wheelchair to a stretcher?
extremity lift
Where should you position the weight of the object being lifted?
As close to the body as possible
You have responded to a nursing home and find an elderly patient in his bed in cardiac arrest. Which type of move would you perform to get the patient to a hard surface so you can perform chest compressions?
Emergency move
Which of the following factors should be considered before lifting any patient?
all of the above: The weight of the patient, physical limitations, good communication, and proper body mechanics
For a patient without a possibility of spinal injury, which of the following carries should be used to move him from a bed to a stretcher?
Draw-sheet method
Which of the following factors should be considered before lifting any patient?
all of the above: The weight of the patient, physical limitations, good communication, and proper body mechanics
Which of the following is used to immobilize a patient with a suspected spinal injury?
Long backboard
Which of the following BEST describes an urgent move?
Moving a patient from a car directly to a long spine board.
You are moving an elderly patient down the stairs using a stair chair. The patient is alert and very anxious. What should you do prior to moving the patient to prevent her from grabbing the railing and causing you to fall?
Explain to the patient what you are doing and advise her to hold her hands together and not let go until you are finished moving her.
