Somebody Save Me
It's how long brain cells take to die.
What is 4-6 minutes?
Gloves, gown, mask, safety goggles.
What is proper PPE?
The first action that an EMT would take when coming upon an unconscious person.
What is determine responsiveness?
Permission to treat an unconscious person, until he becomes conscious.
What is Implied Consent?
A physician who assumes the ultimate responsibility for the patient care aspects of the EMS system.
Who is the Medical Director?
The correct number of compressions for CPR per minute.
What is 100-120 compressions?
The process of cleaning equipment after using it on a patient.
What is disinfection?
From birth to one year of age for CPR purposes.
What is an infant?
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
What is abandonment?
A process of continuous self-review with the purpose of identifying and correcting aspects of the system that require improvement.
What is Quality improvement?
*DAILY DOUBLE*
The correct way to attempt to remove an airway obstruction in an 8 month pregnant patient.
What is chest thrusts?
A form of infection control based on the presumption that all body fluids are infectious.
What is Body substance isolation (BSI)?
An indication artificial respirations are being done correctly.
What is seeing the chest rise?
The collective medical, legal, and ethical guidelines that govern the EMT.
What is the Scope of practice?
Equipment that protects the EMS worker from infection and/or from hazardous materials and the dangers of rescue operations.
What is Personal protective equipment (PPE)?
It's the age cutoff for when child CPR ends and you will perform adult CPR.
What is signs of puberty?
The method of infection when a patient sneezes on you.
What is direct transmission?
The rate of rescue breaths for adult patients with a pulse.
What is one breath every 5 seconds.
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act.
What is Negligence?
Mental health professionals and peer counselors who work as a team to provide emotional and psychological support to EMS personnel who are or have been involved in a highly stressful incident.
What is Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) teams?
It's the appropriate depth of compressions in child CPR.
What is 1/3 the depth of the chest or up to 2 inches?
The most common method of contracting HIV or Hepatitis for medical providers.
What is accidental needlesticks?
It's the proper position to put a patient in who has had return of spontaneous circulation following CPR.
What is the recovery position?
Subjecting a patient to unwanted care and transport may be considered this in a court of law.
What is Battery?
What the patient tells you he or she is feeling.
What is a symptom?