EMS Systems
A system of health care professionals who are responsible to provide emergency care to the sick and injured in their community.
What is Emergency Medical Services?
P.P.E. for short.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
The care you are legally able to provide for the patient.
What is scope of practice?
Facial Expression, Body Language, and Eye Contact are all examples of this type of Communication.
What is Non-Verbal Communication?
This word root means "heart."
What is cardio?
This term is used to refer to individuals aged from 1 to 3 years.
What is toddler?
Emergency Medical Responder, Emergency Medical Technician, Advanced Emergency Medical Technician, and Paramedic.
What are the 4 level of certification or licensure recognized in most States for EMS personnel?
One way to manage this is to expand your social support system beyond your co-workers.
What is stress?
The amount of information you are allowed to share with bystanders about your patient's condition.
What is nothing?
"Are you having chest pains?" is an example of this type of question.
What is a closed-ended question?
The part of the word that is before the root.
What is the prefix?
This normal reaction is found in older infants and peaks at 10 to 18 months of age; it involves clingy behavior and fear of unfamiliar people and places.
What is separation anxiety?
The level of licensure required to perform Basic Life Support care on an ambulance.
What is EMT (Emergency Medical Technician)?
A man who consumes 5 or more alcoholic drinks in a single occasion is considered to be doing this.
What is binge drinking?
The type of consent you will rely on to provide care to a seriously injured patient who is unresponsive.
What is implied consent?
This is personal distance spacing.
What is 18 inches to 4 feet?
It means farthest from the point of attachment.
What is distal?
The range of normal pulse rates found in infants.
What is 100 to 160 beats per minute?
This organization provides cognitive and psychomotor testing to determine the competency of emergency medical services personnel.
What is the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT's)?
The spread of infection by animals or insects.
What is vector-borne transmission?
Duty, Breach of Duty, Damages, and Causation.
What are the elements of negligence?
Being attentive to a patient's feelings and thoughts
What is empathy?
The reason you would place a patient in the Fowler position.
What is to help make it easier for them to breathe and to control their airway?
Cardiovascular health issues often first arise for adults in this age group.
What is middle-aged adults (ages 41-60)?
Detection, Reporting, Response, On-scene Care, Care in Transit, and Transfer to Definitive Care.
What do the bars of the Star of Life represent?
This organization is responsible for the development of Standard Precautions for Health Care Workers.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
P.O.L.S.T. for short.
What are Physician's Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment?
The elements of SOAP.
What are Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Patient Care?
AAA for short.
What is Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm?
A condition often found in older adults, in which plaque forms in the arteries due to the build up of cholesterol and calcium.
What is atheroclerosis?