A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certian situations.
What is Standing Orders?
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is Personal Safety.
leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
What is Abandonment.
Name the five divisions of the spine.
What is servical thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.
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What is aspirin
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?
There are four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)
What is first responder, EMT basic, EMT intermediate, and EMT paramedic.
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
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What is oral glucose
Medical director issues a standing order that allows EMT's to give medication in certian circumstances without speaking directly to the medical director. This is known as..
What is offline medical direction.
List the organs in the upper left quadrant
What is liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney, and colon.
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What is albuterol
Which of the following statments about DNR orders are false. A. A DNR order requires a signature from a physician. B. You do not actually have to see the order verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient. C. Mentally competent patients may refuse care.
What is Answer B. You do not actually have to see the order verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient.
List the organs located in the right upper quadrant.
What is liver, right kidney, colon, pancreas, and gall bladder.
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What is nitro
An emt or other person authorized by a Medical Director to give medications and provide emergency care
What is Designated Agent
List in order the number of vertebrae in order of the spinal column.
What is cervical 7 thoracic 12 lumbar 5 sacral 5 coccyx 4
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What is narcan