Medical Assessment
This is what SAMPLE means.
What are signs & symptoms, allergies, medications, past medical history, last oral intake and events leading to?
This is the compression depth for an adult patient.
What is at least 2 inches?
The only moving part of your skull.
What is the mandible?
This is the assessment technique used to find trauma.
What is the head-to-toe assessment
The medication that is given when a patient has cardiac-related chest pains and is taken orally.
What is aspirin?
What does the "P" in AVPU stand for?
What is painful?
Under these circumstances, an EMT can switch to 15 compressions with 2 ventilations as opposed to the 30:2?
What is a pediatric patient with 2 rescuers?
Regarding the blood flow of the heart, blood flows into this structure after leaving the tricuspid valve.
What is the right ventricle?
What is the KED or vest style device
The medication that can reverse respiratory depression.
What is narcan/Naloxone?
OPQRST is part of what section of the medical assessment?
What is history taking?
This pulse is checked on an infant during CPR.
What is the brachial artery?
The inferior section of the sternum.
What is the xiphoid process?
What is circulation?
The 2 forms that nitro can be administered by an EMT
What are spray and tablets?
What is the most common fail point amongst students when taking the test and performing a medical assessment?
What are scene safety and BSI/PPE?
A type of manual ventilation equipment used during CPR.
What is a BVM?
This part of the body is a blood vessel and not an organ.
What is the aorta?
These measurements help tell you how stable a patient is.
What are the vital signs?
The medication that can reverse hypoxia
What is oxygen?
When do you identify patient priority?
What is at the end of the primary assessment?
If the patient's chest is too small to accommodate pediatric pads, this is what you do.
Apply an adult pad to the anterior chest and the posterior back.
These are the 4 valves of the heart.
What are the tricuspid, pulmonary, mitral, and aortic valves?
The acronym that describes exactly what you are looking for during a trauma assessment
What is DCAP-BTLS? (State what each stands for)
The side effects of these 2 medications are anxiety and tachycardia.
What are albuterol and epinephrine?