Vocabulary
Federal legislation passed in 1996. Its main effect in EMS is in limiting availability of patients' health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. (HIPAA)
A 30-year-old man has experienced severe injuries as a result of a motor vehicle crash. To which of the following specialty centers should the patient transported for definitive care?
A. Stroke Center
B. Rehabilitation Center
C. Poison Center
D. Trauma Center
What is D. Trauma Center.
The primary concern at the scene if this emergency.
What is personal safety?
Cardiac Chest Pain
What is Nitroglycerin and Aspirin
The passage of the Highway Safety Act of 1966 was the first national commitment to reducing the number of highway-related injuries and deaths.
What is True
The delivery of medication directly into a vein.
What is intravenous (IV) therapy?
States use the standards set by which of the following organizations to evaluate the effectiveness of their EMS system?
A. NHTSA
B. Federal Communications Commission
C. American College of Surgeons
D. American College of Emergency Physicians
What is A. NHTSA?
Before approaching the patient, you should.
a. Await the arrival of personnel with more advance medical training.
b. contact a physician for instructions about how to proceed.
C. put on PPE and size up the scene
d. determine the location of the nearest hospital.
What is C. put on PPE and size up the scene
Suspected Opioid Overdoes
What is Naloxone
A scene size-up is performed to sort patients by the seriousness of their injuries.
What is false.
A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured.
What is emergency medical services (EMS)?
You and your EMT partner respond to a motor vehicle crash in which two patients are found trapped inside a vehicle. The patients are assessed, and medical control is then contacted by telephone. This communication is an example of.
A. on-line medical control
B. off-line medical control
C. Prospective medical control
D. retrospective medical control.
What is A. on-line medical control
How the EMS system is usually activated.
What is the telephone?
Hypoglycemia
What is Oral Glucose
A(n) __________ _________ __________ system is a network of resources that provides emergency care and transportation to victims of sudden illness or injury
What is "Emergency Medical Systems"
The process whereby a state allows individuals to perform a regulated act.
What is a licensure?
A. Communication with a physician when providing emergency care to an ill or injured person.
B. your best guess as to the treatment to be provided to an ill or injured patient.
C. a list of steps to be followed when providing emergency care to an ill or injured patient
D. a set of guidelines developed by the DOT to be used when providing emergency care to an ill or injured patient.
What is C. a list of steps to be followed when providing emergency care to an ill or injured patient
The process by which a physician directs the emergency care provided by EMS personnel to an ill or injured patient.
What is medical oversight.
Anaphylaxis
What is Epinephrine
A(n) ___________ is an unexpected illness or injury that required immediate action to avoid risking the life or health of the person being treated.
What is "an Emergency"
A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers
What is National EMS Scope of Practice Model
Which of the following levels of prehospital professionals have the ability to assess patients, give intravenous medications, and perform advanced airway procedures?
A. Emergency Medical Responder and Emergency Medical Technician
B. Emergency Medical Technician and Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians
C. Emergency Medical Responder and Paramedic
D. Advanced Emergency Medical Technician and Paramedic
What is D. Advanced Emergency Medical Technician and Paramedic
While on the scene of a MVC you note that a patient has an open femur fracture. Your patient's blood pressure is dropping rapidly. ALS assistance is required and is 6 minutes out. The closest appropriate hospital is 15 minutes away. Do you
a. Explain that ALS is on the way and leave.
B. radio AlS and determine a location to meet them.
C. wait on scene for ALS to arrive.
D. radio ALS to have them meet you at the hospital.
What is B. radio AlS and determine a location to meet them.
Bronchospasms
What is Albuterol Sulfate
The patient, patient's family, or bystanders may view the attention you pay to your personal hygiene and appearance as a reflection of the care that you will provide.
What is True