An Infectious Disease Is Most Accurately Defined As

Question: Ten days after treating a 34-year-old patient with tuberculosis, you are given a tuberculin skin test, which yields a positive result. This MOST likely indicates that:

Answer: you were exposed to another infected person prior to treating the 34-year-old patient.

Question: After sizing up the scene of a patient with a possible infectious disease, your next priority should be to:

Answer: take standard precautions.

Question: An infectious disease is MOST accurately defined as:

Answer: a medical condition caused by the growth and spread of small, harmful organisms within the body.

Question: Assessment of the medical patient is usually focused on the _________.

Answer: nature of illness

Question: Hepatitis B is more virulent than hepatitis C, which means that it:

Answer: has a greater ability to produce disease.

Question: In 2009, the H1N1 virus accounted for over 200,000 deaths worldwide in the form of the swine flu. In 1919, a similar outbreak of the H1N1 occurred in the form of the Spanish flu. Starting in Kansas City, the virus spread rapidly worldwide, claiming up to 50 million lives. These are both examples of:

Answer: pandemics.

Question: In which of the following situations would it be MOST appropriate to utilize an air medical transportation service?

Answer: 61-year-old man with signs and symptoms of a stroke and a ground transport time of 50 minutes

Question: It is especially important to assess pulse, sensation, and movement in all extremities as well as pupillary reactions in patients with a suspected ___________ problem

Answer: neurologic

Question: Most patients with an infectious disease will have _________.

Answer: a fever

Question: Most treatments provided in the prehospital setting are intended to _________.

Answer: address the patient’s symptoms