EMS System
It may be written or standing orders
Medical Control
Examples include gloves, gowns, and face shields
PPE
The care that an EMT is able to provide is most commonly defined as a
The scope of practice
Hand-carried or handheld devices that operate at 1 to 5 Watts.
Portable Radio
Lying face up
Supine
A system to provide prehospital care to the sick and injured
EMS
Spread of infection through an inanimate object
Indirect Contact
Legal assumption that treatment was desired
Implied Consent
Radio receiver that searches across several frequencies until the message is completed
Scanner
Montion away from the midline
Abduction
Physician direction to an EMS team
Medical Control
__________ occurs when insignificant stressors accumulate to a larger stress-related problem
Cumulative Stess
Unilateral Termination of care
Abandonment
Digital signals are also used in some kinds of paging and tone- alerting system because they transmit __________ and allow for more choices and flexibility.
Faster
Farther from the trunk
Distal
Protects disabled individuals from discrimination
Americans with Disabilities ACT
The safest most reliable source for long-term energy production are:
Carbohydrates
Philosophy of right and wrong
Ethics
The _________ Section of the PCR is arguably the most important portion
Narrative
Means enlargement
Megaly
1966
Accidental Death and Disability
The process of alarm, reaction, and recovery
General adaptation syndrom
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 negligence. This is called
Proximate Causation
The ability to transmit and receive simultaneously
Duplex
What are the four movement terms and their definitions?
Flexion: bending at the joint
Extension: Straightening of a joint
Adduction: Motion toward midline
Abduction: Motion away from midline