Systems & Operations
This EMS communication system can identify the number and location of a caller.
What is Enhanced 911?
This nervous system controls the fight-or-flight response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Use these muscles, not your back, when lifting.
What are your legs?
This is the EMT’s obligation to provide care.
What is duty to act?
The wrist is this to the elbow.
What is distal?
This structure closes over the trachea during swallowing.
What is the epiglottis?
These allow EMTs to administer oxygen without contacting medical control every time.
What are standing orders?
According to Hans Selye, this is the third stage of stress response.
What is the exhaustion stage?
This stretcher is designed for obese patients up to 800 pounds or more.
What is a bariatric stretcher?
This law regulates storing and sharing patient information.
What is HIPAA?
This position means lying face down.
What is prone?
This blood component is essential for clot formation
What are platelets?
The NREMT was founded to establish these for EMS personnel.
What are national standards for EMS personnel?
This guidebook should be standard issue on ambulances for hazmat incidents
What is the Emergency Response Guidebook?
Patients with suspected spinal injuries should NOT be moved in this device.
What is a stair chair?
Leaving a patient at the ED without informing staff is this legal issue.
What is abandonment?
The abdominal quadrants are formed by intersecting lines at this landmark.
What is the navel (umbilicus)?
Normal room air contains this percentage of oxygen.
What is 21%?
The EMT’s role in quality improvement includes writing these.
What are complete patient care reports?
The safest action when confronted by a suspicious intoxicated possible domestic violence suspect.
What is leave the house and call law enforcement?
Your feet should be positioned this way during lifting.
What is shoulder-width apart?
A signed physician-approved DNR allows EMTs to do this.
What is withhold resuscitative measures?
This word means “to the side.”
What is lateral?
This part of the brain controls respiration.
What is the medulla oblongata?
This is the list of steps EMTs follow while assessing and managing emergencies.
What are protocols?
This type of stress causes immediate and long-term health problems for EMTs.
What is distress?
This device is best for moving patients through narrow hallways.
What is a flexible stretcher?
This type of consent applies to an unconscious diabetic patient.
What is implied consent?
Fractures of both femurs are described with this term.
What is bilateral femur fractures?
This process is the exchange of gases between alveoli and capillaries.
What is diffusion?