Failure of the emergency medical responder to continue emergency medical treatment until relieved by someone with the same or a higher level of training.
What is: Abandoment
A powerful 2-way radio that is permanently mounted in a communications center.
What is: Base Station
The transmission of information to another person.
What is: Communication.
The term means the front of the human body.
What is: Anterior
This contains 33 bones that are divided into 5 regions on the posterior portion of the body.
What is: The Spinal Column
A legal document that indicates what a person wants done if he or she cannot make his or own medical decisions.
What is: Advance Directive
The act of recording a potion of the emergency medical responder's patient interaction, either written or electronic.
What is: Documentation
Communications systems used to send voice or text messages over a radio system to specially designed radio receivers.
What is: Paging Systems
This term means close to the body in reference to the heart.
What is: Proximal.
This is the large bone that lives in the upper arm of humans.
What is: The Humerus
A person who is able to make rational decisions about personal well-being.
What is: Competent
A radio system that automatically retransmits a radio signal on a different frequency.
What is: A Repeater
A computer-controlled radio system that allows the sharing of a few radio frequencies among a large group of users.
What is: Trunked Communications Systems
This term means closer to the head.
What is Superior or Cephalad.
These 11th and 12th ribs are not attached to the sternum and are known as?
What are: Floating Ribs.
An emergency medical responder's legal responsibility to respond quickly to an emergency scene and provide medical care within the limits of training and available equipment.
What is: Duty to Act
A process in which electronic signals are transmitted and received by radio or telephone; commonly used for sending electrocardiogram tracings.
What is: Telemetry
An assigned frequency or frequencies that are used to carry voice and/or data communications.
What is: Channel
This is a muscle of respiration that is dome shaped.
What is: The Diaphragm.
The brain, spinal cord and individual nerves make up this?
What is: The Nervous System
Permission for treatment given by a competent patient after the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained.
What is: Informed Consent
A two-way radio that is permanently mounted in an emergency vehicle that draws electricity from the electrical system of the vehicle.
What is Mobile Radio
A device used to send or receive printed text documents or images over a telephone or radio communications system.
What is: Fax Machine
These are responsible for helping the blood to clot?
What are: Platelets
The heart and blood vessels, which together are responsible for the continuous flow of blood throughout the body, is known as?
What is: The Circulatory System.