CPR
Ratio of compressions and breaths
What is 30:2 in CPR?
The prehospital assessment and basic care for the ill or injured parient.
What is emergency care.
The legal obligation to provide care.
What is Duty
The study of body structure.
What is anatomy?
The tubelike structure that carries air into and out of the lungs.
What is the trachea?
When the heart stops pumping blood.
What is cardiac arrest?
A M.D. who assumes the ultimate responsibility for medical oversight of the patient care aspects of the EMS system.
What is a medical director?
The legal term that means to give formal permission for something to happen.
What is consent?
The back of the body.
What is posterior?
An abnormal breathing pattern characterized by slow, shallow gasping breaths that typically occur following cardiac arrest.
What are agonal respirations?
The application of an electrical shock to a patient's heart in an attempt to convert a lethal rhythm to a normal one.
What is defibrillation.
A national model that defines the scope of care for the four nationally recognized levels of EMS provider.
What is Scope of Practice model.
Having no reaction to verbal or painful stimuli?
What is unresponsive?
Closer to the torso.
What is proximal?
A technique used to open the airway of a trauma patient with possible neck or spine injury.
What is jaw thrust maneuver?
An electrical device that when applied to the chest can detect certain abnormal heart rhythms and can deliver a shock to the patient's heart.
What is an AED
Written guidelines that direct the care of EMS personnel providing for patients.
What are protocols?
To leave a sick or injured patient before equal or more highly trained personnel can assume responsibility for care.
What is abandonment?
Farther away from the torso.
What is distal?
A flexible tube that is inserted into the patient's nose to provide an open airway.
What is an NPA (nasopharyngeal airway)?
Prehospital emergency care that involves the use of IV fluids, drug infusions, cardiac monitoring, defibrillation, intubation?
What is advanced life support?
A designated 911 emergency dispatch center.
What is a public safety answering point.
State laws designed to protect certain care providers if they deliver the standard of care in good faith.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
The muscular structure that divides the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
Difficult or labored breathing.
What is dyspnea?