Vocabulary
Introduction
Medical/Legal
Human Body
Random
100

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?

100
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is Personal Safety.
100
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.
100

discoloration of the skin caused by damage to underlying blood vessels.

Bruise

100

 used to estimate extent of burn injury. Each body part is assigned a percentage.

Rule of Nines

200
Breathing in foreign matter such as food, mucus or vomit into the lungs and airway.

Aspiration

200
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.
200
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.
200

abnormal electrical activity in the brain

Seizure

200
List the 3 types of moves.
What is emergancy moves, urgent moves, and non-urgent moves
300

 The sound or sensation of bone ends rubbing together.

Crepitus

300

chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, explosive or unconventional weapons that have the potential to injure or kill a large number of people

weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

300
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation i which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is Negligence.
300

Liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney, and colon are located.

What are the organs of the upper left quadrant.

300

a fluid-filled membrane in the uterus which contains the fetus.

amniotic sac

400
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?
400

the safe area at a hazardous materials incident.

cold zone

400
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.
400

bruising behind the ears indicating possible basal skull fracture.

Battle Signs

400

The outer most part of the skin is called.....

What is epidermis.

500

A condition in which layers of the aorta weaken. This causes blood to leak between the layers of the artery. Causing it to bulge and often rupture.

AAA Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm 

500

Continuous review and auditing of all aspects of EMS system to identify areas of improvement.

Quality improvement (QI)

500
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.
500

a high-pitched sound in the upper airway indicating partial airway obstruction

Stridor

500
The central nervous system is compposed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.
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