Scene Size Up
At this height an adult patient's fall considered severe
What is 20 feet?
The mnemonic used to evaluate a patient's level of consciousness.
What is AVPU?
Your unstable patient's vital signs are checked this often.
What is every 5 minutes?
You are assessing a patient that has been lost in a snowstorm for several hours. Their oxygen saturation is reading in the low 80s although the patient does not show any signs of inadequate breathing while speaking to you. The next step in ensuring an accurate reading.
What is warm the patient's hands and try again?
Force or forces that may have caused an injury.
What is mechanism of injury?
When Scene size-up begins.
What is as the ambulance approaches the scene?
The initial step an EMT performs during the primary assessment.
What is form a general impression?
A normal blood glucose range.
What is 70-100 mg/dl
You are on the scene of a MVC and are palpating the pulse of a 55 year old male. You determine that were 25 pulsations over a span of 30 seconds. This is the patient's reported pulse.
What is Pulse 50 and weak.
A device that uses wavelengths to measure oxygen saturation.
What is pulse oximeter?
The awareness that an EMT that there may be injuries based off of their scene size-up.
What is index of suspicioin?
An unresponsive infant should be checked for responsiveness in this way.
What is flicking the soles of the feet?
The three ways to assess a patient's blood pressure.
What are by palpation, auscultation, and blood pressure monitor
You are called to the scene of a female having an "anxiety attack". While assessing the patient, a male enters the room and loudly states, "leave my girlfriend alone, the only thing wrong with her is she doesn't know when to shut up unless I shut her up." Your best course of action.
What is leave the scene and the patient and notify police?
Pulse measured when you can't feel the radial or brachial pulses.
What is the carotid pulse?
When scene size-up is complete.
What is at the end of the call?
The EMT's purpose for performing the primary assessment.
What is to find and treat any immediate life threats to the patient?
The 3 qualities of a patient's pupils an EMT is assessing for.
What are size, equality, and reactivity?
Your are dispatched to a fall from a roof. On arrival you find a 300lb patient has fallen 25 feet onto the cement below, striking a tree limb on the way down. Which of the information is of least importance.
What is the patients weight?
Action taken to manage or correct a patient's problem.
What is an intervention?
The mechanism of injury in which an object pierces the body.
What is penetrating trauma?
Normal pupil response to bright light.
What is constrict?
When the left ventricle contracts and forces blood into the arteries.
What is systolic blood pressure?
You are paged to a child you has fallen from a treehouse. On arrival, you find child in the house lying on the couch. Initial assessment shows child's skin cool and pale with blotchy, dark spots of cyanosis. How is this finding described during report.
What is mottling?
Area around accidents where special safety precautions should be taken.
What is the danger zone?
A blow that causes injury but does not penetrate the skin or body tissue.
What is blunt force trauma?
Another name for increased work of breathing.
What is labored breathing?
The artery where your 6 month old patient's pulse is assessed initially.
What is the brachial artery?
You are dispatched to a patient with an altered mental status. When you arrive you notice abdominal distension, leg edema, and warm, dry, yellow skin. During patient report to the hospital, you report this skin condition.
What is jaundice?
Collision with the greatest potential for injury to all parts of the body.
What is a head-on collision?
Resource the EMT consults to determine placard codes at potential hazardous spills.
What is the Emergency Response Guidebook?
The reason why the patient is calling for EMS.
What is the chief complaint?
Infant's and children's formula for determining normal systolic blood pressure.
What is 90 + (2 x age in years)?
You are on the scene of a rock concert where a female has lost consciousness. You are going to attempt to obtain a blood pressure but knowing that the scene is very noisy, you determine this is the best way.
What is obtain by palpation?
You have been called to the local hockey rink and find a 16 year old male lying on the ground unresponsive and skin color is blue. His attempts to move air are not adequate so is your first action to correct the issue.
What is open the patient's airway using a manual maneuver?