Airway & Breathing
The structure where the trachea bifurcates into the right and left main bronchi.
What is the carina?
The outermost layer of human skin
What is the epidermis?
Episodes of stroke-like symptoms that completely resolve and come and go.
What are Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIAs)
The medical abbreviation for "Do Not Resuscitate"
The topographical term used to describe a location towards the feet
What is inferior?
The average volume of an adult bag-valve mask (BVM) reservoir
What is 1500 ml
A condition that causes JVD (jugular venous distension) and tracheal deviation.
What is a tension pneumothorax?
The 5 stages of death and dying as defined by the Kübler-Ross model
What are Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance?
The recommended safe number of personnel needed to successfully control a given commander or operational area.
What is span of control? (Usually 3 to 7 individuals)
The standard position of reference in which a patient stands facing forward, with arms at their sides and palms forward.
What is the anatomical position?
This upper airway device is absolutely contraindicated in patients with a basilar skull fracture or severe mid facial trauma.
What is a Naso-pharyngeal Airway (NPA)
The type of trauma involving two or more adjacent ribs fractured in at least two places.
What is a flail chest?
A medication in the EMT scope of practice administered as a suspension to absorb certain ingested poisons.
What is activated charcoal?
Legally, the person to whom a patient is not legally bound, but who is granted adult autonomy via court ruling, allowing them to refuse care as a minor
What is an emancipated minor?
A medical prefix that means "slow".
What is brady-?
The approximate amount of "dead space" air in an average adult's lungs.
What is 150 ml
The 5 types of shock: Septic, Neurogenic, Anaphylactic, Hypovolemic, and Cardiogenic.
What are the forms of distributive, obstructive, and hemorrhagic shock
The 5 D's of large vessel occlusion (LVO) strokes.
What are Dizziness, Diplopia, Dysarthria, Dysphagia, and Dysmetria (or Ataxia)
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that strictly define the limits of an EMT's job.
What is scope of practice?
The prefix for "liver"
What is hepat-?
The two things an EMT actively assesses when evaluating patient breathing.
What are rate and depth?
The estimated amount of blood loss that generally leads to irreversible shock in an average adult.
What is 2000 ml (2 liters)
This life-saving intervention is performed only when direct pressure fails to stop life-threatening, arterial bleeding on an extremity.
What is a tourniquet?
What allows mentally competent adults the legal right to decline EMS transport?
What is refusal of care?
The medical suffix that denotes inflammation
What is -itis?