Vocabulary
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 Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.
This is when you begin your scene size-up.
What is as you approach in your ambulance?
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 EMR, EMT, AEMT and Paramedic?
The consent it is presumed a patient or patients parent would give if they could such as for an unconscioius patient or a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed.
What is implied consent.
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
An injury caused by an object that passes through the skin or other body tissue is known as.
What is Penetrating trauma?
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent and limits, of the EMT's job.
What is Scope of Practice?
Medical director issues a standing order that allows EMT's to give medication in certain circumstances without speaking directly to the medical director. This is known as..
What is offline medical direction.
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is Negligence.
List the organs in the upper left quadrant
What is liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney, and colon.
A fall is considered severe anytime an adult patient has fallen more than ________ feet.
What is 20 feet?
What BEST defines the immediate sense of the patient's degree of distress, formulated from the patient's immediate environment, appearance, and chief complaint.
What is a General impression?
The individual who assumes the ultimate responsibility for patient care rendered by the EMT.
Who is the Medical Director?
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent, and lmits of the EMT's job
What is scope of practice.
This is the medical condition of shock.
What is inadequate tissue perfusion?
This is something that describes blunt-force trauma.
What is an object strikes the body, but it does not penetrate the body tissues?
Who is credited with developing the earliest documented emergency medical service.
Who are the French?
The National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) was founded to establish this.
National standards for emergency medical services personnel?
A federal law protecting the privacy of the patients specific health care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed
What is HIPPA.
This blood component is needed to form clots
What are platelets?
This is having a keen awareness that there may be injuries based on your scene size-up.
What is an index of suspicion?