Vocabulary
Pain medication that can depress and even stop breathing when taken in overdose.
What is Opioid?
Your Main responsibility at any scene
What is Personal Safety.
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
What is Abandonment.
The main pacemaker of the heart is...
What is SA Node.
The loss of measurable signs of life as the result of a blocked airway or loss of breathing?
What is Secondary Cardiac Arrest.
A chaotic, quivering heart rhythm that prevents the normal contraction of the heart and the ability to pump blood.
What is Ventricular Fibrillation?
What does it mean to see precautions?
To follow a set of infection control practices used whether or not an infection is suspected.
A legal concept referring to the assumption that an unresponsive person would give permission to be helped if responsive.
What is implied consent.
Name the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
What is the recommended technique to open and maintain the airway of an unresponsive person. It pulls the jaw forward and lifts the tongue away from the back of the throat?
What is Head Tilt-Chin Lift
Least portable computerized device that allows a minimally trained bystander to provide defibrillation much faster than EMS.
What is an AED?
High - performance CPR includes?
High quality CPR skills and an efficient team approach.
Wait, so, what is the finding of failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is Negligence.
What is the passageway between the mouth and lungs?
What is the Airway.
Infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans. These pathogens include hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
What is Bloodborne Pathogens.
What is the simplest way to quickly identify if resuscitation is required. This is the same for all ages and performed quickly.
What is an BLS assessment.?
How do you know if it's primary cardiac arrest?
a sudden, unexpected, witnessed (seen or heard) collapse in an individual who is not responsive.
What is the law enacted to legally protect trained providers who voluntarily stop to help, act prudently, do not provide care beyond training, and are not completely careless in delivering emergency care.
What is Good Samaritan law.
Heartbeat pulsations of the femoral arteries that can be felt just below the middle of the crease where the leg and torso meet.
What is femoral pulse.
A basic CPR skill that creates increased pressure in the chest cavity and direct compression of the heart. This forces blood to move from the chest to the lungs, brain, and rest of the body?
What is Chest Compressions.
The medication that can temporarily reverse life threatening effects of opioids.
What is Naloxone?
The set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent, and limits of the EMT's job
What is Scope of Practice.
What is the federal law protecting the privacy of the patients specific health care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed
What is HIPAA.
A life-threatening BLS emergency in which breathing is absent or not normal and the heart is still beating?
What is Respiratory Arrest.
The abrupt loss of the heart's ability to contract and push blood forward through the circulatory system. Typically caused by a sudden disruption of the heart's electrical system?
What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest.