Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is BSI.
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.
The dominant pacemaker of the heart is...
What is SA Node.
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, Advanced EMT, and Paramedic.
The consent it is presumed a patient or patients parent would give if they could such as for an unconscious 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.
List the 3 types of moves.
What is emergancy moves, urgent moves, and non-urgent moves
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?
Allows EMT's to give medication in certain circumstances without speaking directly to the medical director. This is known as..
What is a standing order .
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation in 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.
To prevent injury when lifting a patient, lift with your...
What is legs
A method of lifting and carrying a patient during which one rescuer slips hand under the patient's armpits and grasps the wrists, while another rescuer grasps the patients knees.
What is Extremity Lift?
Which of the following statements 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.
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.
List the organs located in the right upper quadrant.
What is liver, right kidney, colon, pancreas, and gall bladder.
The outer most part of the skin is called.....
What is epidermis.
Form the structure of the cheeks.
What is Zygomatic Arches?
What are the five rights?
What is Right Dose, Right PT, Right Route, Right Time, Right Medication.
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.
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
The central nervous system is composed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.