EMS Systems/Safety & Wellness
Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues
Communications and Documentation
The Human Body
Random
200
This is the federal source for the EMT curriculum.
What is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?
200
The legal principle that allows treatment when a person is unconscious or otherwise incapable of making a rational, informed decision about care is known as this type of consent.
What is Implied consent?
200
This federal agency has the jurisdiction over interstate and international telephone and telegraph services and satellite communications, know as the FCC.
What is the Federal Communications Commission
200
The Five sections of the spine
What is the cervical, thorasic, lumbar, sacral and coccyx
200
The current life expectancy is approximately this long.
What is 78 years?
400
This is the acronym for automated external defibrillator
What is AED
400
Communication between you and your patient, including patient history, assessment findings, and treatment provided is always considered this.
What is confidential
400
If it isn't documented, this is implied.
What is it did not happen.
400
The four chambers of the heart
What are the right atrium, the right ventricle, the left atrium and the left ventrical
400
The bronchioles end in about 700 tiny grapelike sacs called this.
What is alveoli?
600
Spreading an infectious agent through mechanisms such as droplets or dust is this type of infectious disease transmission.
What is Airborne transmission
600

The care that would be expected to be provided by an EMT with similar training when caring for a patient in a similar situation.

What is Standard of Care?

600
This type of radio is used if you need to communicate with the dispatcher or medical control and you are away from the ambulance.
What is a portable radio?
600
After opening a patients airway and confirming spontaneous respirations, you check for a pulse lateral to the trachea. You are feeling this artery.
What is the carotid artery
600
The head accounts for this percent of the infants total body weight.
What is 25%
800
Is what the acronym PPE stands for.
What is Personal Protective Equipment
800
This is the unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient's consent and without making any provisions for continuing care by a medical professional who is competent to provide care for the patient
What is Abandonment?
800
This is a common medical term/prefix, meaning slow
What is brady-?
800
The wave of pressure created as the heart contracts and forces blood out the left ventricle and into the major arteries.
What is a pulse?
800

Placing a person in fear of bodily harm.

What is assault?

1000

In 1969 Dr. Kubler-Ross published research revealing people go through this many stages of grief.

What is 7 stages

1000

A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent and limits of the EMT's job.

What is scope of practice?

1000
This act, of 1996, established mandatory patient privacy rules and regulations to safeguard patient confidentiality.
What is the Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)?
1000
The metabolism that takes place in the absence of oxygen; the principal product is lactic acid.
What is anaerobic metabolism?
1000
The nervous system is divided into these two main portions.
What is the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system?
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