Medical ER
This type of nurse performs prioritizes patients by severity to determine which patients need treatment first.
What is a Triage Nurse?
Police phonetic code uses this word for the letter “B.”
What is Bravo?
This three-letter abbreviation refers to the team that responds to medical emergencies outside the hospital.
What is EMS?
“Stat!” in a hospital means this
What is immediately?
This nurse became famous during the Crimean War and helped modernize sanitation practices.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
In emergency medicine, this term “Golden Hour” refers to the critical first hour after a traumatic injury.
Police officers often ask a suspect to walk heel-to-toe in a straight line in this standardized field test.
What is the Sobriety OR Walk-and-turn test?
The radial artery is a pulse point commonly checked on this part of the body.
What is the wrist?
“Suspect is DOA” uses a medical abbreviation meaning this.
What is dead on arrival?
English physician Edward Jenner is credited for inventing this after observing that milkmaids in his hometown of Gloucestershire seemed immune to smallpox after having been exposed to cowpox.
What is the first vaccine?
This hospital department is commonly abbreviated “ICU.”
What is the Intensive Care Unit?
This constitutional amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This condition is often identified using the FAST acronym.
What is a stroke?
“Officer down” indicates this emergency situation.
What is an injured or incapacitated police officer?
This popular medical symbol featuring a single snake wrapped around a staff is associated with this Greek god of healing.
Who is Asclepius?
This term describes a dangerously fast heart rate.
What is tachycardia?
An APB issued by law enforcement stands for this type of bulletin.
What is an All-Points Bulletin?
EMTs often carry this to treat an emergency allergic reaction called anaphylaxis/
What is an epinephrine (adrenaline) injection?
The emergency alert “Code Blue” most commonly refers to this hospital emergency.
What is cardiac arrest?
The procedure of combines chest compressions with rescue breathing (CPR) was first widely promoted in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
The oath is traditionally associated with professionals in the medical field.
What is the “Hippocratic Oath”?
The legal requirement that police inform suspects of their rights comes from this Supreme Court case.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This emergency maneuver, named after a doctor, is used to help choking victims.
What is the Heimlich maneuver?
“ETA” in emergency communications refers to this.
What is estimated time of arrival?
This simple hygiene practice dramatically reduced infections in hospitals after being promoted in the 1800s.
What is hand washing?