Vocabulary
What level of life support is an EMT responsible for?
What is Basic Life Support (BLS)?
Your first responsibility at any scene is ...
What is Scene Safety?
Term defined as leaving a patient after medical care has been established without transferring care to an equal or higher trained professional
What is Abandonment?
Name the five divisions of the spine
What is cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx?
List the four chambers of the heart?
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle?
A form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all body fluids are infectious regardless of the patient
What is Standard Precautions?
True or False
The EMT's scope of practice is the same in every state.
What is False?
Type of consent when life threatening conditions are present without a parent or legal guardian being present
What is implied consent?
Form the structure of the cheeks
What is zygomatic arches?
True or False
One of the challenges with conducting an accurate pain assessment is that this measure is based upon subjective information, including the past experiences and emotional status of the patient
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent/limits of an EMT's job
What is Scope of Practice?
An incident where the emergency response systems are overwhelmed
What is a MCI?
The failure to act with the level of care that a reasonable person would have under the same circumstances resulting in harm
What is Negligence?
This is the normal respiratory rate on a neonate
Whats is 30-60 breaths per minute?
The dominant pacemaker of the heart is...
What is the SA node?
The term means a written protocol where the medical director determines in advance the criteria that must be met before conducting interventions
What is Standing Orders?
There are four general levels of EMS training and certification (list from lowest to highest).
What is Certified First Responder (CFR), EMT-B, Advanced EMT Intermediate/Critical Care, Paramedic?
A federal law protecting the privacy of health care information and providing the patient control over how this information is used and distributed
What is HIPAA?
Bright red blood spurting from a wound that coincides with the patient's pulse usually indicates this type of bleeding
What is arterial?
This law was created to protect people who provide emergency care and private individuals from legal action
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
What does AVPU stand for and what does it measure?
What is Alert, Verbal, Pain, Unresponsive and measures responsiveness?
The medical director issues standing orders that are followed without speaking directly to the medical director. This is know as ....
What is offline medical direction?
Which of the following is FALSE regarding DNRs?
a. A DNR requires a signature from a physician
b. You do not need to see the DNR, verbal confirmation from the family is sufficient
c. Mentally competent patients may redact a DNR
What is b. You do not need to see the DNR, verbal confirmation from the family is sufficient?
These three things create the most efficient compressions during CPR
What is appropriate depth, allow for recoil, and appropriate rate?
This position is a visual cue that an individual is suffering from a respiratory emergency
What is the tripod position?