Ambulance Alphabet Soup
This agency is commonly associated with national EMS education standards and EMS system development.
What is NHTSA?
This is permission from a competent patient before care is provided.
What is consent?
These are gloves, eye protection, masks, gowns, or other barriers used to reduce exposure risk.
What is personal protective equipment?
This body system controls breathing, movement, sensation, and consciousness.
What is the nervous system?
A responsive patient is coughing forcefully and can speak. This is the best immediate action.
What is encourage the patient to keep coughing?
This level of EMS provider is trained to provide immediate care before EMTs or paramedics arrive.
What is an Emergency Medical Responder?
This occurs when a competent adult refuses treatment after being informed of possible risks.
What is refusal of care?
This process is used to remove or reduce harmful substances from equipment, clothing, or skin.
What is decontamination?
This body system brings oxygen into the body and removes carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
A patient has noisy, gurgling respirations. This is the airway problem most likely present.
What are fluids or secretions in the airway?
This type of medical direction includes standing orders and written protocols.
What is offline medical direction?
This term means protecting private patient information from unnecessary disclosure.
What is confidentiality?
This type of stress response may occur after exposure to a traumatic event.
What is critical incident stress?
This body system protects organs, supports the body, and helps produce blood cells.
What is the skeletal system?
A patient has inadequate breathing and needs positive-pressure ventilation. This device is commonly used.
What is a bag-valve-mask?
This type of medical direction involves direct contact with a physician or authorized provider during patient care.
What is online medical direction?
This legal duty requires an EMR who begins care to continue until properly relieved or unable to continue safely.
What is duty to act?
This safety step should happen before entering a scene with traffic, violence, fire, hazardous materials, or unstable surroundings.
What is size up the scene?
This term describes the body’s ability to maintain a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
A trauma patient needs airway opening while spinal motion is minimized. This maneuver should be used.
What is the jaw-thrust maneuver?
This improvement process reviews EMS care to identify strengths, errors, trends, and opportunities for better patient outcomes.
What is quality improvement?
This occurs when a responder leaves a patient after beginning care without ensuring equal or higher-level care continues.
What is abandonment?
This principle means responders should not become additional patients while trying to help others.
What is responder safety first?
This condition occurs when the body’s cells do not receive enough oxygen to function properly.
What is hypoxia?
A breathing patient has signs of poor oxygenation, altered mental status, and cyanosis. This therapy should be considered according to local protocol.
What is high-concentration oxygen?