The Human Body
The bones of the fingers and toes.
Phalanges
A microorganism that is capable of causing disease in a susceptible host.
Pathogen
Unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient consent and without making provisions for transferring care to another medical professional with skills and training necessary to meet the needs of the patient.
Abandonment
Excessive vomiting.
Hyperemesis
Pressure induced trauma.
Barotrauma
The crackling sound produced by air bubbles under the skin.
Subcutaneous emphysema
The use of an animal to spray an organism from one person or place to another.
Vector-borne transmission
A lovely place in a patient in fear of bodily harm.
Assault
Position where the body is lying face down
Prone
A person 12 to 18 years old.
Adolescent
A pressure wave through the arteries caused by cardiac contraction creates a:
Palpable pulse
Exposure or transmission of a disease from one person to another by contact with a contaminated object.
Indirect contact
Unlawfully touching a patient or providing emergency care without consent.
Battery
Above or over the sternum.
Suprasternal
A reflex that occurs when something touches an infant’s cheek, and the infant instinctively turns his or her head towards the touch.
Rooting Reflex
Heart rate of more than 100 bpm.
Tachycardia
The body’s ability to protect itself from acquiring a disease.
Immunity
Blood settling to the lowest point of the body, causing discoloration of the skin, a definitive sign of death.
Dependent lividity
Paralysis on one side of the body.
Hemiplegia
Older adults refers to what age and over?
61 years and over.
The portion of the skeletal system that comprises the arms, legs, pelvis, and shoulder girdle.
Appendicular skeleton
A situation in which a person has had contact with blood body, fluids, tissues, or airborne particles, and a matter that suggests disease transmission may occur.
Exposure
The medical term relating to certain personnel who either by statute or by function, have a responsibility to provide care.
Duty to act
Fluid accumulating in the lungs.
Pulmonary edema
Areas where the neonate’s skull has not fused together.
Fontenelles
The largest part of the three subdivisions of the brain, sometimes called the gray matter; made up of special lobes that control movement, hearing, balance, speech, visual perception, emotions, and personality.
Cerebrum
The nucleotide involvement in energy metabolism; used to store energy
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
A type of consent in which a patient gives verbal or non-verbal authorization for provision of care or transport.
Expressed consent
Disease of the kidney.
Nephropathy
A toddler’s age range.
1 to 3 years old
Fluid produced in the ventricles of the brain that flows in the subarachnoid space and bathes the meninges.
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
The concept of consistent patient care across the entire healthcare team from first patient contact to patient discharge
Continuum of care
Permission for treatment given by a competent patient after the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained.
Informed consent
Refers to the belly side of the body or the anterior surface.
Ventral
A condition characterized by the buildup of cholesterol and calcium along the wall of blood vessels.
Atherosclerosis
This is calculated by multiplying stroke volume by heart rate.
Cardiac Output
Signs and symptoms that the patient does not have.
Pertinent Negatives
When a person who has a duty abuses it and causes harm to another individual, the EMT, the agency and or the medical Director may be sued for an negligence.
Proximate causation
Pregnant for the first time.
Primigravida
These filters blood within the kidney.
Nephrons
Large opening in the inferior portion of the occipital bone.
Foramen Magnum
The forces or energy transmission, applied to the body that causes injury.
Mechanism of injury (MOI)
Written, accepted, levels of emergency care expected by reason of training and profession; written by legal or professional organizations so that patients are not exposed to unreasonable risk or harm.
Standard of care
On or affecting the same side.
Ipsilateral
A type of reasoning in which a child acts almost purely to avoid punishment or to get or he or she wants.
Preconventional Reasoning
Thin bands of fibrous tissue that attached to the valves in the heart and prevent them from inverting.
Chordae Tendineae
The average pressure in the circulatory system doing one cardiac cycle.
Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP)
Conduct that constitutes a willful or reckless disregard for a duty or standard of care.
Gross negligence
Area behind the peritoneum.
Retroperitoneal
Occurs when a newborn is startled, where they open their arms wide, spread their fingers and appear to be grabbing for something
Moro Reflex