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The microscopic blood vessels where gas, nutrient, and waste exchange actually occurs with tissues.
What are capillaries?
The legal concept that gives you permission to treat an unconscious patient in an emergency.
What is implied consent?
The cellular state resulting from inadequate oxygen and nutrient delivery to tissues.
What is shock or hypoperfusion?
The federal government department responsible for publishing the national standard curricula for EMT training.
What is the department of Transportation?
The absolute first priority for an EMT when arriving at the scene of any emergency call.
What is scene safety?
The specific heart valve located between the left atrium and the left ventricle.
What is the mitral or bicuspid valve
The federal law that strictly protects a patient's privacy and medical information.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
The balanced, stable dynamic state maintained by the body's internal systems.
What is homeostasis?
The specific year the landmark federal "White Paper" report was published, officially launching the modern EMS system.
What is 1966?
The standard acronym for protective gear like gloves, gowns, and masks used to block exposure to infectious diseases.
What is PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) or BSI (Body Substance Isolation)?
The liquid component of blood that carries cells, waste, and nutrients.
What is plasma?
The verbal permission given by a mentally competent adult to accept medical care.
What is informed or expressed consent?
The chemical compound carried by red blood cells that specifically binds oxygen.
hemoglobin?
Before modern EMS, these community businesses frequently provided local emergency transport simply because their vehicles could carry a person lying down.
What are the funeral homes?
A confidential, structured team process held after a devastating multi-casualty incident to help responders manage psychological trauma.
What is CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management) or a CISD (Debriefing)?
The two lower chambers of the heart that pump blood out to the body and lungs.
What are the ventricles
The legal term for leaving a patient after you have initiated care, before transferring them to someone of equal or higher training.
What is abandonment?
The category of shock and stage for a patient who is bleeding from a large wound on their leg, has AMS and a HR of 110 and BP of 90/42
What is hypovolemic, decompensated?
This federal act, passed by Congress in 1973, provided funding to build 150 regional EMS systems across the United States.
What is the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act?
The specific type of specialized mask an EMT must wear when treating a patient with a suspected airborne disease like Tuberculosis.
What is an N95 respirator (or HEPA mask)?
Arteries carry blood away from the heart under pressure
veins have valves and are not under pressure
The three things that must be present for something to be consider neglect.
What are a duty to act, a breech of duty, and causation (that breech caused harm?
The nervous system will compensated for this patient to maintain their cardiac output, and what will happen to the patient's heart rate. 49yr old male with a heart attack (MI) where damage has a caused a deceased in Stroke Volume (SV).
What is SNS and increased HR?
This group of people is credited with having the first ambulances
What are the french?
The type of stress reaction that builds up over time from a combination of constant, lower-level daily stressors rather than one single traumatic event.
What is a cumulative stress reaction?