1 OEC FINAL EXAM REVIEW/ Practice Exam Questions with Correct Verified Answers/ Updated 2024 -2025.
Which of the following attributes is not one of the 14 attributes of an effective emergency care system?
- Integration of health services
- System finance
- Public access
- Public acceptance- Correct Answer- d
Which of the following levels of training emphasizes the provision of immediate life- saving treatment and stabilization to critically ill or injured patients while waiting for additional emergency response?
- Emergency Medical Technician
- Emergency Medical Responder
- Advanced Emergency Medical Technician
- Critical care responder- Correct Answer- b
An OEC Technician meets or exceeds the NHTSA national training requirements of:
- An Emergency Medical Technician
- An advanced Emergency Medical Technician
- A Paramedic
- An Emergency Medical Responder- Correct Answer- d 1 / 4
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Most emergency care systems deploy personnel to emergencies using a stratified approach based on the patient's condition or anticipated needs. Which of the following lists presents the normal order of deployment of responders?
- EMT, AEMT, EMR, Paramedic
- EMR, AEMT, Paramedic, EMT
- EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic
- AEMT, Paramedic, EMT, EMR- Correct Answer- c
Which of the following choices is not an example of direct medical oversight?
- Telephone communication
- Physical presence of a physician
- Written protocols
- Video conferencing- Correct Answer- c
Which of the following characteristics is not a characteristic of indirect medical control?
- Communication by radio
- Use for expediting patient care
- Common use for "pre-authorizing" routine and life-saving procedures
- Provision through the use of protocols- Correct Answer- a
Guidelines developed at the local level by emergency personnel familiar with an area's medical needs, available resources, system capabilities, and local standard of care are:
- Protocols
- Policies
- Advanced procedures
- Medical attributes- Correct Answer- a 2 / 4
3 Your patient was involved in a serious motor vehicle collision. Which of the following assessment findings best helps to determine that the patient has a flail chest segment?
- Paradoxical chest wall movement
- Shortness of breath
- Pain upon inspiration
- Chest wall bruising- Correct Answer- a
You are managing a patient with a large flail segment in the right lateral chest. The immediate
threat to this patient's life is:
- Blood loss
- Hypoxia
- Infection
- Rib fractures- Correct Answer- b
You are assisting at an accident scene and are asked to apply a dressing over a sucking chest wound on the patient's left anterior chest wall. Which of the following items would you use?
- A dry sterile gauze dressing
- Sterile gauze soaked in sterile water
- A clean cravat
- Vaseline gauze- Correct Answer- d
You have applied a nonporous dressing to a puncture wound on a patient's chest. An OEC candidate asks you why the dressing was taped only on three sides. Your best response is that
taping the dressing on three sides:
- Permits oxygen to enter the lungs. 3 / 4
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- Allows trapped air to escape upon exhalation.
- Is less painful for the patient.
- Decreases the chances that air will enter the chest upon exhalation.- Correct Answer-
b
The reason it is important that OEC Technicians participate in quality improvement programs
in services in which they work or volunteer is:
- To guarantee that the public receives quality emergency medical care.
- To identify problems in care delivery and develop a plan to prevent their recurrence.
- To ensure that individuals making false calls for help are prosecuted.
- To identify problem employees and create a corrective action plan for them.- Correct
Answer- b
Which of the following is not a role of OEC Technicians in the quality improvement process?
- Participating in training
- Being receptive to on-scene instructions given by another rescuer
- Blaming their partner for a mistake in care
- Participating in case reviews- Correct Answer- c
Which of the following is not an attribute of an emergency care system?
- Equipment
- Public access
- Human resources
- Research- Correct Answer- a
Which of the following is most effective for reducing the incidence of injury or illness in skiing or other outdoor activities?
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