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Critical Care Transport Exam Question And Answers 2025
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Perfusionist - correct answers ✅What additional healthcare provider may become part of the transport team during the transport of a patient receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)? Igor Sikorsky - correct answers ✅Who invented the helicopter? Resilience - correct answers ✅A person's ability to withstand negative pressure or "bounce back" from difficulties is known as: Specialty Care Transport - correct answers ✅CMS defines __________ as the use of specialized equipment and specialized training beyond the paramedic scope of practice to manage critically ill patients from facility to facility. The state agency responsible for licensure - correct answers ✅What agency dictates CCTPs' scope of practice?
1869 - correct answers ✅When was the United States' first city ambulance service established? Intra-aoritic balloon pump (IABP) - correct answers ✅Which of the following will indicate to dispatch that the interfacility transport requires critical care transport? Rotor-wing transport - correct answers ✅A STEMI patient with three vasoactive medications infusing in a community hospital that is 10 miles away, 45 minutes with current traffic, would be a candidate for which mode of transportation? Stress - correct answers ✅__________ is the reaction of the mind and body to demand for change. Bellevue Hospital - correct answers ✅Who initiated the first ambulance service in a US major metropolitan area? Generate data and improve the service provided - correct answers ✅What is the purpose of a quality assurance and improvement (QA&I) program?
Hot air balloon - correct answers ✅What vehicle was utilized in 1870 during the Prussian Siege of Paris as the first documented case of air medical transport? NCLEX-RN - correct answers ✅What exam must candidates pass in order to obtain nursing licensure? Specialty Care Transport - correct answers ✅Which type of transport is the most expensive to operate? Two healthcare facilities - correct answers ✅Interfacility transport is the transport of a patient between: Continuous monitoring and drugs of equipment required to sustain life - correct answers ✅Critical care is the management of patients with life-threatening conditions that requires:
The 11th century, during the Crusades - correct answers ✅When was the movement of injured patients first recorded? Denver, Colorado - correct answers ✅Where was the first hospital-based air ambulance program developed? The dispatcher - correct answers ✅What is the first point of contact for the rotor-wing critical care team? Arab and Greek Physicians - correct answers ✅Who taught the Knights of St. John first aid procedures? Contact the receiving facilities physician - correct answers ✅How do you manage a patient when a sending physician refuses to allow you to treat a patient appropriately according to your protocols? Medical command physician orders - correct answers ✅What is necessary for a CCTP to act outside of his or her protocols?
dictates the management of the patient's care during this transport? The sending facility cannot perform the needed interventions
Obtain written orders to transport the medication infusion - correct answers ✅How do you manage the ground transport of a patient on an infusion unaddressed in your protocols but that you received education on during the recruit academy? Complete utilization of the facilities available resources - correct answers ✅What must a transferring facility do in order to stabilize a patient prior to transport, according to EMTALA? Ask the physician to adjust the order or to send appropriate personnel - correct answers ✅While reviewing the physician's written orders, you notice PRN interventions that exceed your scope of practice. How do you manage the transport? Informed consent - correct answers ✅What type of consent is obtained after you discuss the treatment and transport plan with the patient and patient's family? Current diagnosis and interventions - correct answers ✅What information must be sent with a patient during all interfacility patient transfers?
written statement that the patient understands the risks and benefits of transport. The patient's spouse - correct answers ✅Who must receive a privacy statement prior to transport of a chemically sedated and paralyzed patient if no power of attorney has been made and numerous family members are present? Discuss the concerns with the family and sending physician - correct answers ✅Your pediatric CCT unit arrives at a regional hospital to transport a 3-day old infant with atrioventricular septal defect that is extremely unstable. As you enter the room of the level I NICU, the parents are alarmed and agitated. Uninformed and confused about the transport, the father says, "This hospital is the best in the state," and declines the transport. How do you manage this patient? Implied - correct answers ✅What type of consent is granted for a patient found unresponsive and seizures? Adverse drug event - correct answers ✅You've administered vecoronium and realized you forgot to administer midazolam.
Your partner pushes the midazolam but the patient's heart rate continues to rise. You notice the line was clamped and the bolus went into the bag. What type of incident occurred? All of these are correct (ensure that the patient is securely fastened to the stretcher; remain seated and secured with seatbelt applied as much as possible; and, ensure all loose equipment is secured and equipment lockers are closed) - correct answers ✅During ground transport of a critically injured patient, a CCTP should be mindful to: Scope creep - correct answers ✅Requiring EMS providers to make decisions they are not trained to make, based on the availability of new procedures, interventions, and diagnostic tools, is known as a type of: A universal time-out - correct answers ✅Once everything is in place for an RSI, what can be done to improve team communication prior to performing the RSI? Root-cause analysis - correct answers ✅What is a systematic approach to understanding the causes of serious adverse
A highly reliable organization - correct answers ✅What type of organization focuses on managing its inevitable failures, helping to reduce their effects on patient care? Slip - correct answers ✅What is a lapse in concentration that occurs in the face of distraction? A medical error - correct answers ✅What occurs when a planned action fails to be completed as intended? Emergency Medical Services - correct answers ✅Which of the following is recognized as a medical subspecialty by the American Board of Emergency Physicians? Immediately (within 24 hours) - correct answers ✅A huddle to determine what happened, to address staff concerns, and to ensure the patient is stabilized should take place within what timeline after a serious adverse event?
Efficiency - correct answers ✅When a clinician utilizes premixed infusions instead of mixing their own infusion, they are meeting the Institution of Medicine's __________ Quality Aim. Failure mode and effect analysis - correct answers ✅What system requires someone to develop a risk matrix for each potential failure that incorporates the likelihood of that failure, the ability to detect failure, and the potential harm in order to assign a risk score to the environment? Checklists - correct answers ✅What can help reduce the risk of adverse events and errors of omission during IABP transports? Whether to accept a flight - correct answers ✅One aspect of crew resource management (CRM) in which all members of the crew should hold equal empowerment is the decision of: Sentinel event - correct answers ✅A(n) __________ is a patient safety event in which an error reaches a patient and results in death.
claimed responsibility and stated that he didn't realize the label for the fentanyl had changed to brown after the last supply order. How should this incident be managed? Effectiveness - correct answers ✅When a CCTP transports a patient from a scene to the appropriate facility, they are meeting the Institute of Medicine's __________ Quality Aim? Sterile cockpit - correct answers ✅What is a potential contraindication for aeromedical transportation? Physiologic zone - correct answers ✅The area of the atmosphere that contains the oxygen and barometric pressure needed for a normal, healthy person to live is the: Seizures - correct answers ✅Patients with a history of or injury predisposing them to __________ should be protected from the effects of flicker vertigo.
Air medical transport - correct answers ✅The use of __________ has benefitted critically ill or injured, and those who would have a negative outcome due to prolonged transport. 30 - correct answers ✅When flying under visual flight rules without a flight plan on file, the fixed-wing pilot must update air traffic control or the communications center with the current position every __________ minutes, at a minimum. Pressurized aircraft cabin - correct answers ✅How many passengers and crew members protected from increased barometric pressures during fixed-wing aircraft transports? Ground CCT unit - correct answers ✅Which of the following transport modes is safest for the transport of a patient from the scene of a MVC when weather conditions are poor? 2,000 feet (0.6 km) - correct answers ✅One ounce (295 mL) of alcohol is the physiologic equivalent of __________ of altitude.
rapidly regain clear cognition followed by a period of dizziness. This condition is known as: -3, 9 - correct answers ✅Most humans can survive forces between __________ g and __________ g. The HEMS crew's clinical capabilities exceed those of ground providers - correct answers ✅Air medical transport improves mortality when: Decrease - correct answers ✅Cabin humidity will __________ during a long-range, high altitude, fixed-wing flight lasting more than 4 hours. Traumatic cardiac arrest - correct answers ✅Which of the following would be contraindicated for rotor-wind air medical transport from a scene? Fixed-wing aircraft - correct answers ✅What mode of transport is optimal for a patient being transported 236 miles?
Begin sterile cockpit procedures - correct answers ✅If a pilot declares a flight emergency while en-route to the receiving hospital, the medical crew should immediately: Henry's Law - correct answers ✅The gas law that states that the amount of a gas in a solution varies directly with the partial pressure of a gas over the solution is known as: A cardiac arrest patient 45 minutes away from the nearest hospital - correct answers ✅A rotor-wing aircraft should not be requested for which of the following? Pressurizing an aircraft cabin - correct answers ✅The isobaric control system and differential control method are methods of: Remain clear of clouds - correct answers ✅A pilot operating under visual flight rules (VFR) must: Slow or rapid - correct answers ✅Aircraft depressurizations are categorized as either: