Professional Responder
Formal relationship between EMS and a physician responsible for out of hospital medical care.
What is Medical Director?
single cell micro-organism that may cause infection. do not depend on other organisms for life.
my hand is _____ to my elbow.
What is Distal?
the injury or condition that the patient identifies as the most serious
What is Chief Complaint?
normal respiration rate
What is 12-20BPM?
Range of duties and skills the responder is allowed and expected to preform.
What is Scope of practice?
Four conditions for infection to occur.
What is Pathogen, Susceptibility, Quantity and entry site?
What is Liver?
Levels of responsiveness.
What is alert, verbal, painful and unconscious.
The two types of Airway Obstructions
What is Foreign and anatomical?
Failure to follow a reasonable standard of care.
What is Negligence?
transmission resulting from touching an object that came in contact with bodily fluids.
What is Indirect contact?
this is the basic unit of life.
What is the Cell?
look, listen and feel for breathing for no more than ___ seconds
what is 10?
a severe allergic reaction in which the air passages constrict and restricts the patients breathing.
What is anaphylaxis?
four reasons for documentation.
What is Medical, Legal, Administrative and research?
infection of the liver.
What is Hepatitis?
this body system consists of skin, nails and hair.
What is the Integumentary system?
rapid systematic check of the patient to identify conditions that pose and immediate threat to life.
What is Primary Survey?
in order to deliver supplemental oxygen, a responder must have the following equipment.
What is oxygen cylinder, oxygen regulator and delivery device?
Primary responsibility of first responder.
What is your own safety?
process to remove full PPE.
What is remove gloves, remove gown, wash hands, remove eyewear, remove mask, wash hands?
These tough, fibrous connective tissues hold joints together.
What is Ligaments?
GSC is signing a numerical score to these three areas.
What is eye, verbal and motor response?
blockage of a pulmonary artery by a clot or foreign material.
What is pulmonary embolism?