Introduction to EMS
This list of steps, such as assessments and interventions, to be taken in different situations, are developed by the EMS system.
What are protocols?
This is the expected level of treatment to be provided by an EMT with similar training when caring for a patient in a similar situation.
What is standard of care?
This component carries oxygen to, and carbon dioxide away from, the cells.
What are erythrocytes/red blood cells?
Skeletal, Cardiac, and Smooth
What are the three types of muscle?
This area is directly posterior to the nose.
What is the nasopharynx?
A process of continuous self-review with the purpose of identifying and correcting aspects of the system that require improvement.
What is quality improvement?
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or higher medical training constitutes this.
What is abandonment?
This term refers to the supply of oxygen to, and removal of wastes from, the cells and tissues of the body as a result of blood flow through the capillaries.
What is perfusion?
The inferior portion of the sternum.
What is the xiphoid process?
This is the most common rhythm a cardiac arrest patient will be found in, IF assessed within 5 minutes.
What is Ventricular Fibrillation (VF)
EMR, EMT, AEMT, and Paramedic
What are the NREMT levels of EMS certification.
Duty, Breach of Duty, Damages, and Proximate Cause
What are the four elements of negligence?
This location is where a pulse is assessed in an infant.
What is the brachial artery?
The cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spinal divisions contain these numbers of vertebra, respectively.
What are 7, 12, 5?
The smallest kind of vein.
What is a venule?
A policy or protocol issued by the Medical Director that authorizes EMTs to perform particular skills in certain situations.
What are standing orders?
This is a set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the extent and limitations of the EMT's job.
What is scope of practice?
A position in which the patient is supine with legs elevated.
What is Trendelenburg?
These are the lower two chambers of the heart.
What are the ventricles?
These respiratory rates that would require positive pressure ventilation?
What are < 8 or >30 breaths per minute.
This person authorizes the EMTs in the service to provide medical care in the field,
Who is the medical director?
Instructions written in advance that have specific details about the care to be/not to be performed in a life and death situation are called this.
What are advance directives?
Medical term used to describe a blood pressure cuff.
What is sphygmomanometer?
You find this on the top of the foot, lateral to the large tendon of the big toe.
What is the pedal pulse?
This airway adjunct is inserted into the mouth and sits on top of the epiglottis.
Supraglottic airway