Exam 3: Lifting and Moving Patients

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?

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?

Which of the following patients should NOT be transported in a stair chair?

What is the likely impact of power stretchers on EMS?

You respond to a 48-year-old morbidly obese female patient.Her adult daughter called you because she has not gotten up from her oversized recliner chair in over a week.She has tried to help her out of the chair but states that each time her mother screams in agony.The foul odor presence of urine and feces is strong around the patient.Her feet do not touch the ground,and any attempt to lift the patient by her arms or scoot her down to the end of the chair results in severe pain to the patient.You are finding it nearly impossible to get a good grip on the patient.How will you get her out of the chair?

What is the contraindication for the use of a scoop or orthopedic stretcher?

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?

You respond to a call at a park where you find a 550-pound patient who has fallen down a slope near a creek.As you and your partner discuss the situation,you decide to call a second unit for lifting assistance.Once the patient is on a stretcher,how would the additional two personnel help in this lift?

Urgent moves are required when:

Which of the following should you do when reaching for something?

Which of the following is another name for an ambulance cot?

You are called to the scene of a patient who fell approximately 5 feet off a stepladder to the floor of a third-story attic of a very old building.He is complaining of severe neck and back pain,and he has an obvious fractured ankle.You cannot get your stretcher past the first-floor stairs and your long spine board is not practical with the winding spiral staircase and the small attic access.What is the best device to safely get the patient out of the attic where he can be properly immobilized?

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?

Which of the following is another name for the squat-lift position?

Which of the following best describes an urgent move?

How many pounds are most battery-powered hydraulic systems rated to safely lift?

The term body mechanics describes the proper use of your body to lift without injury.What are the three considerations to review before any lift?

Which of the following is used to immobilize a patient with a suspected spinal injury?

When a stretcher with a patient secured to it is elevated,what occurs?

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?