Vocabulary
A protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and PARAMEDICS to perform particular skills in specific situations.
What are Standing Orders?
Your first responsibility at any scene.
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.
The five divisions of the spine.
What is servical thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.
The dominant pacemaker of the heart.
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?
The four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)
What is first responder, EMT basic, EMT intermediate, and EMT paramedic.
A type of consent that is presumed a patient or 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.
These are the 4 chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
3 types of patient moves utilized for extrication.
What is emergancy moves, urgent moves, and non-urgent moves
A set of procedures, actions, and responsibilities that define the role of an EMT based on their training, qualifications, and education.
What is Scope of Practice?
When a medical director has issued standing orders that allow EMT's to give medical treatment in specific circumstances without speaking directly to the medical director.
What is offline medical direction.
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.
The organs that are located in the upper left quadrant.
What is liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney, and colon.
The typical amount of blood a Soaked Pad can hold.
What is 300ml(cc)
These are located in the RLQ
What are the Appendix, Large Intestine, Small Intestine
TRUE OR FALSE
Regarding a DNR, You do not actually have to see the order, verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient.
FALSE
The outer most part of the skin.
What is epidermis.
30:2
What is the compressions to breaths ratio in 2 person CPR?
These are located in the Female Pelvic Region.
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.
These 2 comprise the central nervous system.
What is brain and spinal cord.