Vocabulary
A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certain situations.
What is Standing Orders?
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
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.
Name the five divisions of the spine.
What is cervical, 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/EMR, EMT basic, Advanced EMT, and EMT paramedic.
The legal assumption that a patient or their parent would consent to necessary medical care if they were able to consent directly, for example, in an emergency situation where the patient is unconscious or the parent cannot be reached.
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?
Medical director issues a standing order that allows EMT's to give medication in certain circumstances without speaking directly to the medical director. This is known as..
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.
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. Two methods commonly used are...
What is power lift, and power grip.
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 confirmation 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?
An EMT or other person authorized by a Medical Director to give medications and provide emergency care
What is Designated Agent
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.