Vocabulary
Instructions pre-approved by the medical director directing EMS crews to perform specific life support measures before contacting a medical control physician.
What are Standing Orders?
Based on individual and community conduct, standards imposed by force of law, and professional or institutional standards
What is standard of conduct?
The back surface of the body.
What is posterior.
The bluish, gray skin coloring resulting from asphyxia.
What is cyanosis?
Leaving a patient before turning him or her over to someone of the same or higher level of care.
What is abandonment?
The tenth to fourteenth pairs of ribs.
What are the ones most commonly broken or "floating ribs"?
What the patient tells you he or she is feeling
What is a symptom?
To prevent injury when lifting a patient, two methods commonly used are...
What is power lift, and power grip.
HIPAA stands for...
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
The clavicles, scapula and sternum.
What are parts of the thorax (thoracic cavity)?
12 to 20 times per minute.
What is the average adult respiratory rate?
The central nervous system is composed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.
A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious.
What is Standard Precautions, BSI or Universal Precautions?
There was a duty to act, you acted above your standard of care, and the patient suffered further injury.
What is gross negligence?
The topographical term meaning towards the feet.
What is inferior?
Blood pressure, pulse, respirations, skin temperature.
What are vital signs?
Allows you to treat an unconscious patient.
What is implied consent?
The system responsible for taking oxygen to the body tissues.
What is the circulatory system?
60 to 80 times per minute.
What is the average adult pulse rate?