Scope of Practice
A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that outlines the care that the EMT is able to provide for the patient.
What is Scope of Practice?
Rapid onset of pale and moist skin, rapid and weak pulse, irritability, confusion, sometimes seizures or coma.
What is Hypoglycemia?
An oxygen delivery device in which oxygen flows through tube-like prongs in nostrils, delivers 1-6 liters per minute.
What is Nasal Cannula?
Anti- inflammatory agent, anti- fever agent, and prevents platelets from clumping.
A scoring system for assessing the status of a newborn that assigns a number value to each of the five areas.
What is APGAR Score?
Limits availability of patient's health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy.
What is HIPAA?
Widespread urticaria (hives), itching/ burning, wheals (raised bumps), angioedema.
What is Anaphylaxis Reaction?
Airway adjunct inserted into mouth of an unresponsive patient to keep tongue from blocking upper airway.
What is Oropharyngeal airway (OPA)?
Reverses respiratory depression secondary to opioid overdose.
What is Narcan?
A collection of blood in the pleural cavity.
What is hemothorax?
Protective measures that have been developed by the CDC for use in dealing with objects, blood, body fluids, and other potential exposure risks of communicable disease.
What are Standard Precautions?
Facial drooping, sudden weakness, aphasia, slurred speech, confusion, dizziness, absent movement on one side of the body.
What is Stroke?
A device to splint the bony pelvis to reduce hemorrhage from bone ends, venous disruption, and pain.
What is a Pelvic Binder?
Stimulates nervous system, causing bronchodilation in case of anaphylaxis.
What is Epinephrine (EpiPen)?
Burns that affect all skin layers and may affect the subcutaneous layers, muscle, and bone, leaving the area dry, leathery, white, dark brown, or charred.
What is Full- thickness (third degree) burn?
What is Implied Consent?
Falling blood pressure (systolic under 90 mmHg), labored breathing, cyanotic, absent peripheral pulses, dilated pupils.
What is decompensated shock?
A method of pressure ventilation used primarily in the treatment of critically ill patients with respiratory distress.
What is CPAP?
Given to a hypoglycemic patient through the mouth.
What is oral glucose?
What is Basilar Skull Fracture?
Four factors of negligence.
What is duty, breach of duty, damages, and causation?
Dependent edema, cyanotic, sweaty, agitated, patient finds it easier to breath when sitting upright, distended neck veins, chest pain.
What is Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)?
The bleeding control method used when a wound continues to bleed despite the use of direct pressure; useful if a patient is bleeding severely from a partial or complete amputation.
What is tourniquet?
Dilates blood vessels when patient is experiencing chest pain.
What is Nitroglycerin?
Three clinical signs associated with pericardial tamponade; muffled heart sounds, narrow pulse pressure, and JVD.
What is Beck's Triad?