History and Licensures
What exam do you need to pass to become an EMT?
Bonus 50 points if you type it out.
NREMT (National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians
As an EMT, the very first safety you check for is ______
Yourself
Good Samaritan Law
The amount of vertebrae in a cervical spine
7
The type of consent of when a patient is advised on the risk of receiving treatment
Informed Consent
The year when dot published EMT training and curriculum
1970, the NREMT was established
2 types of stress. Bonus 50 on explaining what they are.
Eustress (positive response)
Distress (negative response).
Year HIPAA was established
1996
This structure is commonly called the “voice box” and connects the pharynx to the trachea.
What is the larynx?
Group of people that cannot give consent.
Bonus 50: if you can give an example of an exception.
Minors. If they are emancipated, pregnant, drugs or STIs
The amount of hours needed to be a paramedic.
1200-1800+ hours
EMTs should avoid this substance close to bedtime to improve sleep quality
What is caffeine?
People that must abide to HIPAA
Medical providers and Insurance companies
These small airway passages lack cartilage and end at the alveoli.
What are bronchioles?
The type of consent given when a person is unconscious
Implied consent
In which war did they have field medics and helicopter evacuations for the injured.
Korean War
5 common PPE that are needed 100 for each right answer
Gloves, Masks, Eye Protection, Gowns, and Face shield
The place to locate an organ donor card and what do when seen
Driver's license or medical ID bracelets. keep them alive til hospital if possible
Gas exchange occurs in these tiny sac-like structures at the end of the airway.
What are the alveoli?
Qualities of patient to procede with an involuntary consent
Mentally ill or behavioral crisis
The 4 levels of EMS providers.
Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) for basic first response, Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) for basic life support and transport, Advanced EMT (AEMT) and Paramedics.
After several difficult pediatric calls, an EMT feels emotionally numb and detached from patients. This wellness issue is likely developing.
What is compassion fatigue?
A hospitalized patient has a valid Do Not Resuscitate order on file. When the patient becomes pulseless, this action is not performed, but comfort care continues.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
A patient with airway swelling is at high risk of obstruction because this rigid structure cannot expand.
What is the trachea?
What should be given if patient poses imminent danger?
Forcible restraint