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How this packet is made

  • One topic per page
  • With illustrations, not text
  • Matches your textbook
  • On your phone or print

Follows the national exam outline.

What this packet includes

  • 112Pages
  • 8Chapters
  • 306Flash Cards
  • 351Exam Terms

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240 pages across 3 PDFs
How a crash injures people
How the heart moves blood
Oxygen devices and flow rates
Rule of nines, adult vs child
Tourniquets
Pregnancy: the parts
Fracture types
Newborn care and APGAR
AED pad placement
Pupils
Choking: adult, child, infant
Pulse points by age

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Does it cover the skills test?
  • It shows the hands on steps the exam asks about, like the bag valve mask, bleeding control and splinting
  • Your skills test itself is checked in person through your course
Is it a video course?
  • No videos at all
  • Illustrated pages, cards and terms
  • Go at your own pace
Which exam is it for?
  • The national Emergency Medical Technician certification exam
  • CPR pages follow the current CPR guidelines
Is it an official exam guide?
  • No, we're an independent study aid
  • We're not affiliated with the National Registry, any publisher or any EMS agency
  • It covers all five areas of the national exam
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Can I print it?
  • Yes, print any page for your own studying
  • The Flash Cards also come as a print and cut file

Everything in the packet

  • Emergency Medical Technician Visual Guide, 112 illustrated pages
  • 306 Flash Cards
  • 351 Exam Terms

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27% DON'T PASS the national Emergency Medical Technician exam on the first try

Does this sound like you?

  • The textbook never endsHundreds of pages, and it's hard to tell what the exam will actually ask.
  • The numbers blur togetherBreaths per minute, compression depth, oxygen flow. They start to mix.
  • Every answer looks rightThe question gives you a call, and you second guess what to do first.
  • Childbirth feels unfamiliarStages of labor, APGAR, delivery problems. Steps you don't see every day.

If any of these sound familiar, you're in the right place.

Reading it twice doesn't make it stick

Adult or child? Your textbook spreads burns across a whole chapter. How much does a child's head count in the rule of nines?

Trauma, page 78. Tap to see it full size.

A child's head counts 18 and each leg 14, not 9 and 18.

The toughest topics

  • Childbirth and newborns
  • Airway and breathing numbers
  • Multiple response questions
  • The human body

Childbirth, children and older adults, page 94. Tap to see it full size.

How the national exam breaks down

70 to 120questions
  • Primary assessment 41%
  • Treatment and transport 22%
  • Scene size up and safety 17%
  • Operations 12%
  • Secondary assessment 7%
70 to 120 questions in 2 hours. About 4 in 10 are about the first look at the patient, and our packet covers all five areas.
From thisAn open, very thick EMT textbook covered in yellow highlighter and sticky notes on a desk
  • Walls of text
  • You re-read and re-read
To this
  • One topic per page
  • Illustrated, so you can see it

Every topic in the guide

102 topic pages in 8 chapters, plus a Last look for every chapter. Tap a chapter to see what's on each page.

Scene safetypages 3 to 1412 pages
  1. 3Is the scene safe?
  2. 4Gloves, gown, mask and eye protection
  3. 5Taking protective gear off in order
  4. 6How a car crash injures people
  5. 7Falls, blasts, stabs and gunshots
  6. 8Nature of illness and how many patients
  7. 9Calling for more help
  8. 10Safe lifting and body mechanics
  9. 11Emergency moves and drags
  10. 12Non urgent moves
  11. 13Stretcher and stair chair
  12. 14Positions for transport
Airway and breathingpages 16 to 2914 pages
  1. 16First look: general impression and responsiveness
  2. 17Airway parts, adult vs child
  3. 18Head tilt chin lift and jaw thrust
  4. 19Suctioning
  5. 20Oral airway: size and insert
  6. 21Nasal airway: size and insert
  7. 22Good vs poor breathing
  8. 23Breath sounds
  9. 24Oxygen devices and flow rates
  10. 25Bag valve mask
  11. 26Breaths per minute by age
  12. 27CPAP
  13. 28Choking: adult, child, infant
  14. 29Stomas and tracheostomies
Circulation, shock and CPRpages 31 to 4414 pages
  1. 31Pulse points by age
  2. 32Direct pressure
  3. 33Tourniquets
  4. 34Wound packing
  5. 35How the heart moves blood
  6. 36Types of shock
  7. 37Shock: early and late signs
  8. 38Adult CPR
  9. 39Child and infant CPR
  10. 40AED pad placement
  11. 41Chain of survival
  12. 42After the pulse comes back
  13. 43When not to start CPR
  14. 44Who goes first: high priority patients
Closer lookpages 46 to 549 pages
  1. 46Vital signs by age
  2. 47Taking a blood pressure
  3. 48Pupils
  4. 49Skin color, temperature and moisture
  5. 50SAMPLE history
  6. 51Pain questions: OPQRST
  7. 52Head to toe trauma exam
  8. 53Glasgow Coma Scale
  9. 54Reassessment: how often
Medical callspages 56 to 7318 pages
  1. 56The medicines an EMT can give
  2. 57Giving a medicine safely
  3. 58Chest pain and heart attack
  4. 59Heart failure
  5. 60Stroke signs
  6. 61Seizures
  7. 62Low vs high blood sugar
  8. 63Allergic reaction and epinephrine
  9. 64Asthma, COPD and inhalers
  10. 65Opioid overdose and naloxone
  11. 66Poisons: four ways in
  12. 67Belly pain map
  13. 68Why a patient is confused
  14. 69Behavioral calls and safe restraint
  15. 70Heat emergencies
  16. 71Cold emergencies
  17. 72Drowning
  18. 73Sepsis
Traumapages 75 to 8915 pages
  1. 75Arterial, venous and capillary bleeding
  2. 76Closed and open soft tissue injuries
  3. 77Burn depth
  4. 78Rule of nines, adult vs child
  5. 79Chest injuries
  6. 80Sealing an open chest wound
  7. 81Belly injuries and evisceration
  8. 82Head injury and rising brain pressure
  9. 83Spine injury and keeping the spine still
  10. 84Fracture types
  11. 85Splinting rules
  12. 86Traction splint
  13. 87Amputations and impaled objects
  14. 88Eye injuries
  15. 89Which hospital: trauma center rules
Childbirth, children and older adultspages 91 to 10010 pages
  1. 91Pregnancy: the parts
  2. 92Stages of labor
  3. 93Normal delivery step by step
  4. 94Newborn care and APGAR
  5. 95Newborn resuscitation
  6. 96Delivery problems
  7. 97Pregnancy emergencies
  8. 98Pediatric assessment triangle
  9. 99How children are different
  10. 100Older adults
EMS operationspages 102 to 11110 pages
  1. 102Phases of an ambulance call
  2. 103Driving with lights and siren
  3. 104Radio report and medical direction
  4. 105Patient care report
  5. 106Consent and refusal
  6. 107Negligence and abandonment
  7. 108DNR and advance directives
  8. 109Mass casualty and incident command
  9. 110START and JumpSTART triage
  10. 111Hazmat zones
Last lookpages 15 to 1128 summaries
  1. 15Scene safety
  2. 30Airway and breathing
  3. 45Circulation, shock and CPR
  4. 55Closer look
  5. 74Medical calls
  6. 90Trauma
  7. 101Childbirth, children and older adults
  8. 112EMS operations

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