BLS Basics & Vital Signs
For a general medical or trauma patient, an EMT should administer oxygen to maintain an SpO2 saturation at or above this percentage.
What is 94%?
For a patient with chest pain, an EMT is authorized to facilitate the administration of the patient's own prescription of this sublingual medication.
What is Nitroglycerin?
This is the CPR ratio of compressions to ventilations for a newborn requiring resuscitation.
What is 3:1?
CPAP application by an EMT is contraindicated if a patient's systolic blood pressure falls below this threshold.
What is 100 mmHg?
After an EMT administers Naloxone via an IM auto-injector, the device must be properly disposed of in this container.
What is a sharps container?
During high-quality CPR, EMTs should maintain a chest compression rate between these two numbers.
What is 100 to 120 compressions per minute?
For a conscious, alert adult with hypoglycemia, an EMT may administer up to this many tubes of commercially prepared oral glucose.
What are 2 tubes?
This pain scale is appropriate for an EMT to use when assessing a child between the ages of 4 and 12.
What is the Wong-Baker "faces" scale?
Chemical irritants to the eye must be flushed with copious amounts of water or 0.9% NaCl for a minimum of this duration.
What is 20 minutes?
During post-resuscitative care of an adult who achieves return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), an EMT should provide an initial ventilation rate of this many breaths per minute.
What is 10 to 12 BPM?
This acronym is used by EMTs to perform a stroke assessment.
What is B.E. F.A.S.T.?
To treat adult anaphylaxis, EMTs use an epinephrine auto-injector to deliver this specific dose.
What is 0.3 mg?
During routine newborn care, an EMT records the APGAR score at these two specific time intervals.
What are 1 minute and 5 minutes?
To stabilize a suspected pelvic fracture, an EMT should use a commercial binder device or an improvised binder using this common item.
What is a bed sheet?
All incidents where an EMT administers Naloxone must be reported to the New Jersey OEMS within this time frame via the web-based reporting form.
What is 24 hours?
This calculation tool is used by EMTs to determine the extent of a patient's burn surface area.
What is the Rule of Nines?
For a suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) patient, an EMT will administer this total dose of chewable aspirin.
What is 324 mg?
To relieve a severe foreign body airway obstruction in an infant, an EMT delivers this combination of maneuvers.
What are 5 back blows followed by 5 chest thrusts?
Dental avulsions should be preserved by placing them in an obviously labeled container with cell-culture medium, saline-soaked dressing, or this everyday liquid.
What is milk?
If a patient with an insulin pump is hypoglycemic and has a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) less than 15, an EMT should instruct a family member or bystander to do this.
What is stop the insulin pump?
When treating a patient with COPD, the baseline target $SpO_{2}$ is lowered to this percentage.
What is 90%?
If approved by the Medical Director, an EMT may administer 2.5 mg of nebulized albuterol up to this maximum number of doses.
What are 3 doses?
An EMT performs this manual intervention to the mother's lower abdomen to help reduce postpartum hemorrhage.
What is firm continuous fundal (or uterine) massage?
An EMT should cover an abdominal evisceration using this two-step dressing method.
What is a saline-soaked sterile dressing covered with an occlusive dressing?
This 800-number should be contacted as soon as practical for consultation regarding poisonings or nerve agent exposures.
What is (800) 222-1222?
What is Poison Control?