Chapter 1
Pain medication that can depress and even stop breathing when taken in overdose.
What is an Opioid?
Your first 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 dominant pacemaker of the heart is...
What is SA Node.
What is an acute illness.
is an illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time.
A chaotic, quivering heart rhythm that prevents the normal contraction of the heart and the ability to pump blood.
What is Ventricular Fibrillation?
To observe standard precautions means?
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.
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
What number do you call in the case of an emergency?
911
A small, 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.
A 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.
The passageway between the mouth and lungs that allows life-sustaining oxygen into the body?
What is the Airway.
What are some symptoms of respiratory distress
A person who is experiencing respiratory distress is,
understandably, often very frightened. The person may
feel like he or she cannot get enough air and may gasp
for breath. Because the person is struggling to breathe,
speaking in complete sentences may be difficult.
A simple way to quickly identify if resuscitation is required. This is the same for all ages and performed quickly.
What is an BLS assessment.?
Which of the following statments about DNR orders are false. A. A DNR order requires a signature from a physician.
B. You do not actually have to see the order, verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient.
C. Mentally competent patients may refuse care.
What is Answer B. You do not actually have to see the order, verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient.
A 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.
What is asthma
asthma, a chronic illness in
which certain substances or conditions, called
triggers, cause inflammation and narrowing of
the airways, making breathing difficult.
A medication that can temporarily reverse life threatening effects of opioids.
What is Naloxone?
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent, and limits of the EMT's job
What is Scope of Practice.
A 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.