Medical Terminology
What does "DNR" stand for?
What is Do Not Resuscitate
Who typically issues an EMS licensure?
What is your state?
In an adult cardiac arrest the we give ___ compressions and ___ breaths each cycle?
30:2
What law deals specifically with maintaining patient confidentiality?
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)?
What organ in the endocrine system regulates blood sugar?
What is the pancreas?
Define Negligence
What is the failure to provide the expected standard of care?
Who is the number one priority for safety?
Who is yourself?
Blood leaving the heart from the right side travels next to the?
What is the lungs through the pulmonary artery?
While you are helping with the splinting an injured child's arm, a neighbor asks how the patient is doing. What response would be appropriate if the parents are still absent from the scene?
What is kindly informing the neighbor you cannot share any information about the patient because of confidentiality laws?
Name a cell in the body that plays a part in the immune system response.
What is white blood cells?
Name the positions from top to bottom:
What is Supine and Prone
What year did the concept of "on-scene care" begin?
What is 1928?
What is the most common reason we breath?
What is the most important concept regarding patient refusals?
What is fully informed?
What is the primary function of the respiratory system?
What is remove waste products?
The medical name for the jaw bone is the?
What is the Mandible?
True or False: The medical director is a physician who assumes the ultimate responsibility for medical oversight of the patient care aspects of the EMS system?
What is True?
In a pediatric cardiac arrest with two rescuers we give ___ compressions and ___ breaths each cycle.
15:2
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
In which part of the nervous system would the spinal cord be included?
Which term is used when describing both sides of the body?
What is Bilateral?
The care that an EMR, EMT and Paramedic is allowed and suppose to provide according to local, state, or regional regulations or statues is called?
What is the scope of practice?
An AED available to the public can only shock what 2 rhythms?
What is V-tach and V-fib?
True or False: Mandated reports are used only for observed or suspected sexual abuse.
What is False: Mandated reports are used for sexual abuse, injuries resulting from a crime, exposures to certain infectious diseases, rape and violence?
Name the sections of the spine from superior to inferior.
What it the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum and coccyx vertebra?