Vocabulary
Introduction
Medical/Legal
Human Body
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A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certain situations.

What are Standing Orders?

100

Your first responsibility at any scene is ...

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

The spinal column is broken up into these 5 divisions.

What are the Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral, and Coccyx.

100

The dominant pacemaker of the heart.

What is the SA Node.

200

A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious.

What is Body Substance Isolation?

200

The four levels of EMS training and certification.

What is EMR, EMT-B, EMT-A, and EMT-P?

200

A type of permission that is presumed when 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

These are the names of the four chambers of the heart.

What are the Right Atrium, Right Ventricle, Left Atrium, and Left Ventricle.

200

3 types of patient extrication

What is Emergency moves, Urgent moves, and Non-urgent moves

300

A set of regulations and protocols that define the extent of an EMT's job.

What is Scope of Practice?

300
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.
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
List the organs in the upper left quadrant
What is liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney, and colon.
300
to prevent ingury when lifting a patient. two methods commonly used are...
What is power lift, and power grip.
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
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.
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
List the organs located in the right upper quadrant.
What is liver, right kidney, colon, pancreas, and gall bladder.
400
The outer most part of the skin is called.....
What is epidermis.
500
Form the structure of the cheeks.
What is Zygomatic Arches?
500
An emt or other person authorized by a Medical Director to give medications and provide emergency care
What is Designated Agent
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
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
500
The central nervous system is compposed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.
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