Emergency Medicine/Critical Care
One of the ten domains the VTNE is built from. Every question here is checked against a textbook on the official reference list.
- Share of the exam
- 7%
- Scored items on the VTNE
- 10 of 150
- Questions ready here
- 67
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Emergency Medicine/Critical Care is 10 of the VTNE’s 150 scored items. No account needed for these, answers included. The explanations cover why the right answer is right and why the others aren’t, and every answer shows the textbook it came from and where to find it.
Item count: AAVSB 2023 Veterinary Technician National Examination Content Outline, approved by the AAVSB Board of Directors, March 2023. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
- A dog with a severe infection has developed a systemic inflammatory response and is now in shock, with…
- A 4 kg cat is found in cardiopulmonary arrest in the treatment area and chest compressions are about to be…
Skills this domain tests
The 5 skills the AAVSB lists under this domain. Every question here is written against one of them, and the same list is on the exam blueprint.
- Utilize knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology as it applies to emergency medicine and critical care.
- Perform triage of a patient presenting with emergency/critical conditions (including but not limited to shock, acute illness, acute trauma, and toxicity).
- Perform emergency nursing procedures (including but not limited to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), control acute blood loss, and fracture stabilization).
- Perform critical care nursing procedures (including but not limited to blood component therapy, fluid resuscitation, and ongoing oxygen therapy).
- Perform ongoing evaluations of physical, behavioral, nutritional, and mentation status of patient in emergency and critical conditions.