Vocabulary
Medical interventions pre-approved by Medical Direction that EMTs can perform without needing direct permission from a physician for every call.
What are Standing Orders?
Your first responsibility at any scene is...
What is Scene Safety?
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before being 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.
The length of time New York City advertised as their response time by an Ambulance Surgeon in 1868.
30-seconds
This technique is used to open the airway of unresponsive patients with a suspected spinal injury.
What is the Jaw Thrust Maneuver?
This type of consent would be used for an unresponsive patient.
What is implied consent.
This is the primary process that facilitates movement of Oxygen from the alveoli into the blood.
What is diffusion?
The forbidden phrase said halfway through a shift with no calls (that results in back to back calls for the rest of the night).
What is a "quiet" shift?
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act and harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is Negligence.
The pacemaker of the heart.
What is the SA Node?
Legally addictive stimulant is considered the first-line treatment for early morning shifts, night shifts, and paperwork overload.
What is caffine?
This term refers to the process of listening to internal body sounds, typically with a stethoscope.
What is auscultation?
Two things that are required for a patient to refuse care.
What are decision making capacity and informed consent.
This part of the brain stem along with the pons, regulates involuntary respiratory rhythm and rate
What is the medulla oblongata?
The average number of times a heart beats in a lifetime.
What is 3 billion?
A type of brain injury that occurs when the brain impacts the inside of the skull both at the point of impact and on the opposite side.
Coup-Contrecoup injury
When a pediatric patient under the age of 6 months is bradycardic (<60 bpm) with signs of poor perfusion this must be initiated...
What are chest compressions?
A federal law protecting the privacy of the patients specific health care information and it is used and distributed
What is HIPPA?
The most common broken bone in the human body.
What is the Clavicle (collarbone)?
This body part gets its name from the Latin word for little mouse because Ancient Romans thought it looked like a tiny mouse scurrying under the skin when flexed.
What is a muscle?