Neurologic
The three major parts of the brain are the:
Cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem
What does EMS stand for?
What is Emergency Medical Services
Written guidelines that direct the care EMS personnel provider for patients.
What is Protocols
The medical director's specific instructions for specific medical conditions of injuries
What is Standing Orders
The supervision related to patient care provided for an EMS system or one of its components by a licensed physician.
What is Medical Oversight
The left cerebral hemisphere controls what side of the body?
The right side of the body
A member of the EMS system who provides prearrival instructions to callers, thereby helping to initiate lifesaving care before EMS personnel arrives....
What is EMD
These are the stages of grief.
What is Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance.
Disposable gloves, barrier devices, gowns, and protective eye wear are examples of what?
What is Personal Protective Equipment
A member of the EMS system whose training includes advanced life support care, such as inserting advanced airways and starting IV lines.
What is Paramedic
A patient who is experiencing aphasia is unable to produce or understand what?
They are unable to produce or understand speech
What does AEMT stand for?
What is Advanced Emergency Medical Technician
What does EMD stand for?
What is Emergency Medical Dispatcher
EMS research, legislation and regulation, medical direction, public education, and clinical care are all examples of what?
What is key attributes of an integrated EMS system.
In order, what are the four levels of EMS education?
What is EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic
Status epilepticus is characterized by what?
Prolonged seizures without a return of consciousness.
A hospital that is capable of providing specialized services such as trauma care, pediatric care, cardiac care, stroke care, or burn care.
What is Specialty Hospital
Orders to perform a skill or administer care from the on-duty physician, given to the rescuer in person by radio or phone.
What is On-Line Medical Direction
A physician who assumes the ultimate responsibility for medical oversight of the patient care aspects of the EMS system.
What is Medical Director
What does EMR stand for?
What is Emergency Medical Responder
During the primary assessment of a semiconscious 70-year-old female, you should first do what?
Ensure the patient has a patent airway and support ventilation as needed.
The chain of human resources and services linked together to provide continuous emergency care at the scene and during transport to a medical facility.
What is EMS system
A member of the EMS system who has been trained to render first-aid care for a patient and to assist higher-level providers at the emergency scene.
What is Emergency Medical Responder
A member of the EMS system whose training includes basic-level EMT training plus responsibility for a minimal level of advanced life support.
What is AEMT
Firefighters, police Officers and other rescuers who aid n patient care are called?
What is First Responder