EMR

EMR 1

100

What does BLS stand for?

Basic Life Support

200

______ is the administration of an electric shock to a patient who is experiencing a highly irregular heartbeat.

(Ventricular Tachycardia/ Ventricular Fibrillation)

Defibrillation

300

________ were first used to remove wounded patients off of the battlefield during the American Civil War.

Horse-drawn ambulances

400

________ were used in the World War 1, and greatly reduced the death rate from fractured femurs.

Traction Splints

500

What does M.A.S.H. stand for?

Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals

EMR 2

100

What does ALS stand for?

Advanced Life Support

200

What is your primary goal as an EMR?

To provide immediate care for a sick or injured patient.

300

The three terms used to describe proper patient transportation to an appropriate medical facility?

1. Transport

2. Prompt Transport

3. Rapid Transport

400

The process by which a person, institution, or program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain standards to ensure safe and ethical patient care.

Certification

500

Name the TWO types of medical direction/control, and give an example of each.

1. Indirect/Offline - Policies and procedures, training

2. Direct/Online - two-way radio/ Cell phone

Reactions to stress

100

The first stage of the Grieving process

Person cannot believe what is happening

("Not me!")

Denial

200

The second stage of the Grieving process

This reaction may be directed toward you by patient or family.

("Why me?")

Anger

300

The third stage of the Grieving Process

the act of trying to make a deal to postpone death and dying.

("Okay, but...")

Bargaining

400

The fourth stage of the grieving process

often characterized by sadness or despair

("Heavy-hearted")

Depression

500

The final stage of the grieving process

At this point, one generally understands that death and dying are a natural event, and cannot be changed.

Acceptance

EMR 3

100

Draw for me the AXIAL skeleton and label its THREE major components

1. Skull

2. Spine

3. Thoracic cage

200

Draw for me the APPENDICULAR skeleton and label its major components.

1. Arms/ Shoulder girdles

2. Legs/ Pelvic girdles

300

List a couple ways an infected person transmits an airborne pathogen.

1. cough

2. Sneeze

400

List a couple ways a blood borne pathogen may be transmitted to you as an EMR.

1. Blood gets in your eyes, mouth or open wound

2. needle stick

500

What does CISM stand for, and briefly state what it is.

Critical Incident Stress Management 

A process that confronts the responses to critical incidents and defuses them, directing the emergency services personnel toward physical and emotional equilibrium.

EMR 4

100

Draw for me a HEART and label for me the four major chambers (ANATOMICAL POSITION)

Right Atrium -----------Left Atrium

Right Ventricle ------Left Ventricle

200

Write out for me the path a DROP OF BLOOD takes through the heart.  starting at the VENA CAVA and ending at the AORTA.

Right atrium, Tricuspid valve, right ventricle, pulmonary valve, Pulmonary artery, Lungs, Pulmonary Vein, Left atrium, Mitral (Bicuspid) Valve, Left ventricle, Aortic Valve.

300

An infection control concept that treats all body fluids as potentially infectious.

Standard precautions

400

The disease-causing agents that are spread through contact with infectious microorganisms.

Pathogens

500

The three most common routes for transmission of infectious disease are:

1. Blood-borne 

2. Airborne

3. Direct contact