The exchange of gasses between an organism and it's environment.
What is Respiration?
100
We are responsible for this first and foremost on any scene.
What is Personal Safety?
100
The act of terminating patient care without making sure that care will continue at the same level or higher.
What is Abandonment?
100
These five regions make up the spine.
What is Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacrum, Coccyx?
100
This is the primary pacemaker in the heart.
What is the Sinoatrial (SA) node?
200
Medical term describing excessive or increased thirst.
What is Polydipsia?
200
The first 60 minutes after the occurrence of major trauma; the period in which the patient should receive definitive care in the O.R.
What is the Golden Hour?
200
Consent assumed from a patient requiring emergency care who is mentally, physically or emotionally unable to provide expressed consent.
What is Implied Consent?
200
The four chambers of the heart.
What is Right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle?
200
Condition where a normally implanted placenta separates from the wall of the uterus prematurely.
What is Abruptio Placentae?
300
The uppermost part of the breastbone. It connects with the clavicle and the first rib.
What is Manubrium?
300
Medical supervision of EMS personnel through the use of policies, protocols, standing orders, education and Q.I.
What is Off-Line Medical Direction?
300
The act of deviating from an accepted standard of care through carelessness, inattention, disregard, inadvertence, or oversight which results in further injury to the patient.
What is negligence?
300
Cellular metabolism that does not require the presence of oxygen.
What is Anaerobic Metabolism?
300
Movement of the chest wall in the opposite direction of breathing. A sign of a flail segment.
What is Paradoxical Movement?
400
A position in which the patient is lying on the back with the upper body elevated at a 45 to 60 degree angle.
What is Fowler Position?
400
State laws that detail the medical procedures and functions that can be legally performed by a licensed or certified healthcare professional.
What is Scope of Practice?
400
A legal document that details a persons healthcare wishes if the person becomes unable to make decisions.
What is an Advance Directive?
400
The part of the skeleton that includes the skull, spinal column, sternum and ribs.
What is Axial skeleton?
400
A respiratory disease that causes destruction of the alveolar walls; damage to the adjacent capillary walls, and permanent loss of elasticity of the lungs.
What is Emphysema?
500
The science of analyzing the mechanism of injury and predicting injury patterns.
What is Kinematics?
500
The minimum level of care expected of similarly trained healthcare professionals
What is Standard of Care?
500
The law passed in 1996 which covers patient privacy, release of information, and billing practices in healthcare.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
500
This muscle is found in only one place in the body. It is an involuntary muscle.
What is Cardiac muscle?
500
A mini-neurological exam used to establish a baseline level of responsiveness and note any obvious CNS problems.