Responsibilities of EMS
BLS/ALS
EMD Responsibilities
Common Medical Terms
Life-Threatening, Priority, or Non-Life-Threatening?
100
EMS and Fire Department responders administer this type of care to patients
What is Emergency?
100
BLS is an abbreviation for this.
What is Basic Life Support?
100
EMDs are responsible to receive and process calls using this type of equipment, in addition to the AVL, ANI/ALI Trakker, Radio, and Phone.
What is CAD (Computer-Aided Dispatch)?
100
A body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or an accident.
What is trauma?
100
Gasping for air.
What is life threatening?
200
EMS and FD responders assess the nature and this of the patient's injuries.
What is condition?
200
BLS care is defined as this level of emergency care.
What is non-invasive?
200
The EMD must determine the nature and this for each incident. Is it life threatening?
What is severity?
200
The pulse, respiration, and blood pressure measurements.
What are vital signs?
200
Turning purple
What is life threatening?
300
EMS and FD responders must recognize hazards to these two entities.
What are people and property?
300
These professionals provide basic life support.
What is Emergency Medical Technicians?
300
Know what resources you have, both locally and ...
What is outside your jurisdiction?
300
An MI, or myocardial Infarction, is death to an area of the heart due to obstruction of blood flow to that area. It's also known as this.
What is a heart attack?
300
Minor fall without serious injury
What is non-life-threatening?
400
EMS and FD responders care for and do this for the sick and injured.
What is transport?
400
These professionals provide Advanced Life Support.
What are paramedics?
400
EMDs must always react in this way, regardless of the caller's demeanor.
What is passively?
400
Abnormal firing of brain cells causing a wave of electrical activity resulting in simultaneous stimulation of multiple body activities and functions.
What is a seizure?
500
EMS and FD respond to these three types of emergencies.
What are fire, chemical, and medical emergencies?
500
Paramedics' skills include all those of an EMT, as well as these types of infusions.
What are intravenous (IV) or intraosseus?
500
EMDs must determine the nature of the medical emergency without doing this.
What is diagnosing?
500
Profuse perspiration.
What is diaphoretic?
500
Underwater
What is life threatening?
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