EMS SYSTEMS
& Your Role
& Your Role
The level of EMS provider trained to provide initial emergency care until higher-level EMS arrives
What is an Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)?
This type of consent assumed for an unresponsive, critically ill adult.
What is Implied Consent?
The anatomical term for the front of the body.
What is anterior?
The airway maneuver used for patients with NO suspected spinal injury
What is Head-tilt Chin-lift?
The MIN level of PPE that should be donned before ANY patient contact.
What are Gloves?
The term for the physician who provides medical oversight and authorization for an EMS agency
Who is the Medical Director?
A legal document that indicates a patient's wishes NOT to receive resuscitation efforts.
What is a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order?
The organ system responsible for gas exchange - bringing O2 into the body and expelling CO2
What is the respiratory system?
The correct way to size and OPA
What is Measuring from the corner of the mouth to the earlobe?
The patient move used when there is and immediate life threat and spinal precautions CANNOT be maintained
What is an Emergency Move / Emergency Drag?
This component of the EMS system is responsible for receiving 911 calls and dispatching appropriate resources
What is the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)/Dispatch?
You share a patients medical information with someone not involved in their care without consent. What legal violation have you committed.
What is HIPPA violation / Breach of patient confidentiality?
In anatomical position, these two terms describe a body part as either closer to or farther from an attachment point
What is Proximal, and Distal?
A non-rebreather mask at 15 LPM delivers approx. this percentage of oxygen.
What is 60-90%?
the most common injury is EMS
What is Back Injury?
You arrive on scene before ALS. This legal principle obligates you to begin and maintain care one patient contact is made.
What is Duty to Act?
A conscious, oriented patient refuses care. Before leaving the scene, you must complete these TWO things to protect yourself legally.
Ensure the patient signs an informed refusal AND have them acknowledge understanding of the risks
A patient complains of pain in the RUQ. Name TWO organs located in this quadrant that could be the source
What are, Liver, Gallbladder, Right Kidney, Colon
Your OPA-intolerant patient with a head injury needs airway support. Name the adjunct that IS appropriate and the contraindication for using it.
What is NPA? Contraindication: suspected basilar skull fracture / severe facial trauma
The THREE things assessed during scene size-up before making patient contact.
To establish negligence, four elements must be proven. Name them.
What are Duty, Breach of duty, Causation, and Damages?
This legal protection allows off-duty EMS providers to assist at emergencies without fear of liability, provided they act in good faith and do not accept payment.
What is Good Samaritan Law?
Name one of the THREE layers of meninges covering the brain and spinal cord
What is dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater?
A patient's respiratory rate is 10 and their tidal volume appears very shallow. explain what oxygen delivery device would be used and why.
What is BVM? Very shallow breathing at 10 per min is Inadequate Volume.
The best courses of action when preparing to move a patient down the stairs.
What is Ensure adequate help, Proper Equipment (Stair Chair)?