Medical
Define Anterior, Posterior, Midline
Front side of body
Back of the body
Imaginary line drawn vertically from middle of the forehead through the umbilicus floor
True or false a medical provider can remove a nail from a patient's cheek?
True!
Off-line medical control
What is Standing Orders
Good Samaritan laws
help protect the off-duty EMT from lawsuits when stopping at the scene of a collision to offer assistance.
The scope of practice is?
Description of what assessment and treatment skills a provider may legally perform
signs of death (must name at least two)
Obvious mortal damage, dependent lividity, rigor mortis, putrefaction(decay).
Becomes unresponsive after a baseball hits their chest
Unconscious, unresponsive, patient with possible traumatic cardiac arrest
Obtaining a physical exam and full set of vitals prior to leaving the patient
RMA
Legal responsibility to provide care
Duty to Act
What is trending?
Taking vitals more than once to see how your pt is doing.
Normal reading is 35-45
What is ETCO2
You are called to a local nightclub for an injured patient. Upon arrival, you see a young man who is lying on the ground screaming in pain, bright red blood is spurting from an apparent stab wound to his groin area. Your first action should be to
Apply pressures, then dressing and tourniquet reassess
Burns
Oxygen, SPO2, Remove restricted items
dry dressing on burns less then 10%
wet dressing on burns more then 10%
Withholding resuscitative efforts because of the patient's wishes
What is a DNR
A patient with obvious spinal injuries is found on the floor of a burning building. The EMT rates the situation hazardous but not yet dire. Alone and without special equipment,
clothing drag
Beck triad
Low blood pressure, distension of the jugular veins, and muffled or diminished heart sounds (cardiac tamponade)
During a soccer game, a 20 year old man collided shoulder to shoulder with another player. He has pain and a noticeable anterior bulge to the left shoulder. What is the most effective method of immobilizing this injury?
Apply a shoulder sling do not re-set
Mention 3 cases where Altered Mental Status can arise
Live!!
Your responsibility to provide patient care is called:
Duty act
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA).
provide national leadership and coordination of comprehensive, data-driven, and evidence-based emergency medical services and 911 systems.
widened pulse pressure (increasing systolic, decreasing diastolic) bradycardia, and irregular respirations
Cushing's Triad
After a GSW The patient opens his eyes in response to pain, is speaking with incomprehensible words, and withdraws from pain by flexing his upper extremities. What is his GCS score?
7
Anaphylaxis
Albuterol, Epi, oxygen, reassess every 5 mins
(POLST) form
Physician order for life-sustaining treatment
Flow of the heart go!
Blood comes into the right atrium from the body, moves into the right ventricle and is pushed into the pulmonary arteries in the lungs. After picking up oxygen, the blood travels back to the heart through the pulmonary veins into the left atrium, to the left ventricle and out to the body's tissues through the aorta.