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What is EMS, and what is provide?
EMS is Emergency Medical Services , and provide out-of-hospital care.
What is duty to act?
a duty to take some actions to prevent harm to another.
when do correctional officer and Leo perform duty?
what is stander care?
The degree of care that is within your scope.
What is Good samariat act?
An act that protects first aid provider from liability for emergency care or treatment.
List of Conditions for Negligence (4)
Duty to Act
Breach of stander care
Causations
Damages
what is Abandonment
giving up a right or interest with the intentions of never coming back.
What is Negligence?
the failure to exercise the stander of care that is a reasonably would do.
List the types of Consent (3) and explain them.
Express consent: verbal yes or no
Implied consent: rolling up sleeves
Informed consent: full knowledge of the facts or risk.
what is a medical alert.
a bracelet, necklace, or card that has detailed information about the patient.
What does HIPAA stand for?
Health insurance portability and Accountability Act.
Blind: Speak clearly to the patient and provide information about their surrounding and describe what you are doing before care.
Deaf: Face the patient directly, speak clearly and slowly.
Juveniles: Get down to eye level and stay calms.
What is the Functions of the respiratory system and list the part of the lower airway. (3)
delivers oxygens to the blood and remove carbon dioxide from the blood.
Nose, mouth, and throat.
Describes the functions of the circulatory system and list the four major arteries.
Pumps bloods throughout the body and delivers oxygen and nutrients and remove waste from the body.
Carotid, Brachial, femoral, and radial.
What is the signs of shock and symptoms
anxiety, nausea and vomiting, and excessive thirst
What are the four types of Chest Injuries.
Bonus: Explain the injuries in your own words.
Close chest Injury, flail chest Injury, Open chest injury, and sucking chest injury.
What are symptoms of a diabetic emergency and what can it mimic?
Confusion, dizziness, and sweet, fruity or acetone smell.
It mimic the behavior of being drunk
What are the main tool to stop bleeding and decribe what they are?
Tourniquet -stop the flow of blood
Dressing: sterile pads the promote healing.
hemostatic dressing: dressing that is coated in blood clotting agent.
Bandages: cover and hold dressing in place.
What are the three type of bleeding? Explain their color and flow.
Arterial bleeding: Bright red blood that is spurting
venous bleeding: Dark red blood that has a steadily flow.
capillary bleeding: Dark red blood that is oozing slowly.
( amputations)- removal or loss of limb (eviscerations)- Organs coming outside the body (puncture wound)-sharp object that penetrates the skin (Lacerations): a cut in the skin (abrasion) outer layer injury.
How do you use triage in a MCI, what two method do we use?
Bonus**** what is the color that make them different.
Simple triage and rapid treatment and Sort, assess, live saving Interventions, treatment/ Transport.
Gray
Name the three type of threats zones and what type of medical treat me you can render in each zone.
Direct threat / hot zone (applying tourniquet)
Indirect threat/ warm zone (Primary assessment)
Evacuations Care/ cold zone (hand off to higher skilled practitioner)
what are the three classes of burns and there depth of tissue damage, also what are the four types of burns give an example in your own words.
superficial burns (first layer, red skin), Partial- thickness (second layer of skin swelling with red and white or splotchy skin), and full thickness burns (third-degree burns all layer of skins and often affect the muscles and nerves)
what is the risk level of fentanyl in a correctional setting and why? Use your own words
Good Job (:
What are three stage of hyperthermia and what are the symptoms?
Heat cramps ( headache, cramps, and sweaty skin)
heat exhaustion (loss of appetite, weakness, fainting with heat cramps.)
heat Stroke( headache, loss of appetite, and vomiting with rapid pulse, hot and dry skin and altered mental state.