workforce safety
denial, anger, bagaining, depression, and acceptance
What are the stages of grieving process?
Hands placed in front of you with palms up
What is the power grip?
Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society.
What is known as the White Paper?
Small device used by EMS or public to detect heart rate and rhythm and deliver appropriate shock to patient.
What is an AED (Automated External Defibrillator)?
Used to treat hypoxia
What is oxygen?
Psychological distress that may develop after one or more stressful events
What is PTSD?
Your knees on either side of the board or stretcher with back straight or slightly curved and legs bent.
What is the power lift?
Provides national standardized EMS testing and certification
What is the NREMT (National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians)?
Used to transport patient from emegerency scene to receiving facility (hospital)
What is usually an ambulance?
Used to treat hypoglycemia
What is glucose?
Personal safety
Whose safety comes first? or Scene Safe
The best way to move a conscious patient with no spinal injuries down a flight of stairs
What is the stair chair?
Dispatcher with medical or first aid training.
What is an EMD or Emergency Medical Dispatch?
Used to carry and load patient into the ambulance
What is a stretcher or gurney?
Used to treat angina (chest pain)
What is nitroglycerin?
Gloves, masks, gowns, face shields or goggles
What is PPE(personal protective equipment)?
Hepatitis B
What is a Vaccine required by OSHA for medical workers?
A physician who authorizes the EMT's in service to provide specified medical care in their field.
What is a medical director?
a stretcher that splits into 2 or 4 sections that can be fitted around a patient who is lying on the ground or other flat surface, in order to lift them
What is a scoop stretcher?
Used to help thin (prevent platelet from forming) the blood and allow more blood flow to the heart
What is aspirin?
red bags or containers used with EMS workers
What are contamination disposal containers?
A process that was developed to address acute stress situations and potentially decrease the likelihood of PTSD development.
What is CISM ( critical incident stress management)?
Online or offline medical authorization.
What is medical control
A gas that helps keep a patient with adequate blood Spo2
What is oxygen or oxygen tank?
Used to bind to a chemical and prevent absorption of swallowed chemical
What is charcoal?