Medical, Legal & Ethical
The collective set of regulations governing the EMT
What is Scope of Practice?
If a patient is lying on their side, the patient is said to be in the ______ position?
What is recovery (lateral recumbent) position?
Name of the upper jaw bone
What is maxillae?
The patient's stroke volume (SV) depends on (3)
What is afterload, pre-load, and contractility?
A reflex in which stroking a hungry infant's lips causes the infant to start sucking
What is sucking reflex?
You will be inserting an OPA in your patient. First you will need to measure the correct size. An OPA of proper size extends from
What is the corner of the patient's mouth to the tip of the earlobe?
Your patient is a child who is approximately 4 years old and is in respiratory distress, which may be leading to respiratory failure. Inadequate breathing in a child this age is defined as
1. fewer than 12 breaths per minute
2. more than 36 breaths per minute
3. cyanosis of the lips and earlobes
What is any of these?
When the EMT advocates for the physical/emotional needs of the patient
What is ethical responsibility?
When a patient who has been having difficulty breathing is placed in a sitting up position on a stretcher, this position is called?
What is fowler position?
The spinal column includes the _____ vertebrae
What is thoracic and coccyx?
Energy for the cell is largely produced by _____, which are responsible for conversion of glucose and nutrients into _____.
What is mitochondria: ATP
The infant's reaction to the infant's environment
What is temperament?
What is the patient's ear to the level of the suprasternal notch?
A difference between respiratory distress and failure?
What is respiratory failure has cyanotic or gray skin color?
When informing the adult patient of a procedure you are about to perform and its associated risks, is called?
What is expressed consent?
A patient lying flat on his back would be in which position?
What is supine position?
The bones in the upper extremities include
What is humerus and radius?
What is medulla oblongata?
You are deciding which airway adjunct to use to assist in keeping open the airway of a 30 y/o F, who you suspect has sustained a basilar skull fracture. You note clear fluid running out of her ears. It is best to choose:
What is an OPA if she has no gag reflex?
The inadequacy of breathing with insufficient oxygen intake
What is respiratory failure?
You are assessing a 28-year-old male patient who was found unconscious a the bottom of a stairwell. Consent that is based on the assumption that this patient would approve of your life-saving care is called?
The reference position of the body used when discussing human anatomy
What is anatomic position?
The types of muscle tissue include (3)
What is voluntary, cardiac, and involuntary?
An example of a patient whose minute volume is likely to have diminished considerably:
1. a 35 y/o F, experiencing an asthma attack
2. a 22 y/o M, who has overdosed on a narcotic
3. a 16 y/o who just broke multiple ribs
What is all of these
Stage of life from 12-36 months
What is toddler?
Your patient has sustained a high-energy impact to the head and neck. To open the airway of a patient suspected head, neck, or spine injury, the EMT should use
What is jaw-thrust maneuver
A fully pressurized portable oxygen tank should have approximately _______ psi
What is 2,000?
What is informing the patient of the risks and consequences of refusal, documenting the steps you took, and obtaining a release form with the patient's witnessed signature
What is physiology?
A patient who is walking is using what muscle
What is voluntary muscle?
When the legs are crushed under a slab of concrete, the blood supply is diminished to the cells in the lungs and can cause
What is production of lactic acid?
A response to being startled in which the infant throws out both arms, spreads the fingers, then grabs with the fingers and arms
What is moro reflex?
One indication that a child is experiencing labored breathing
What is has nasal flaring when she breaths?
If an adult has a tidal volume (TV) of 500 mL and is breathing 12 times per minute, what would their alveolar ventilation volume be per minute?
What is 4,200?
It is clear that your 24-year-old competent male patient does not want to go to the hospital. Forcing him to go to the hospital against his will may result in _______ charges against the EMT.
What is assault?
An imaginary line drawn down the center of the body, dividing it into right and left halves
What is midline?
Involuntary muscle is found in
What is blood vessels?
The cell structure that contains the DNA
What is the nucleus
Stage of life from 41 to 60 years
What is middle adulthood?
When inserting an OPA into a pediatric patient
1. insert it straight in
2. do not rotate of flip over the tongue
3. consider using a tongue depressor
What is all of the above?
When the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place between the cells and circulating blood, this accomplishes
Another name for a DNR
What is advance directive?
A line drawn vertically from the middle of the armpit to the ankle
What is midaxillary line?
What is larynx?
What is anaerobic metabolism
What is infancy?
The hypopharynx is also called
What is laryngopharynx?
The normal, or adequate, breathing rate for a 50-year-old adult should be
What is 12-20 breaths per minute?
If an EMT with a duty to act fails to provide the standard of care and if this failure causes harm or injury to the patient, the EMT may be accused of?
What is negligence?
On both sides
What is bilateral?
A leaf-shaped valve that prevents food and foreign objects from entering the trachea during swallowing
What is epiglottis?
The inability of the body to adequately circulate blood to the body's cells to supply them with oxygen and nutrients
What is hypoperfusion
When an infant develops anxiety and insecurity, this if often due to the psychosocial characteristic of?
What is trust versus mistrust?
The contraction of smooth muscle that lines the bronchial passages that result in a decreased internal diameter of the airway and increased resistance to flow
What is bronchoconstriction?
A face mask and reservoir bag device that delivers high concentrations of oxygen. The patient's exhaled air escapes through ta valve and is not rebreathed.
What is nonrebreather mask?
Leaving your 82-year-old male patient on a hallway stretcher in a busy ED and leaving without giving a report to a health care professional is called?
What is abandonment?
A flat surface formed when slicing through a solid object
What is plane?
The vessel that carries oxygen-poor blood from the portions of the body below the heart and back to the right atrium
What is inferior vena cava?
Chemical sensors in the brain and blood vessels that identify changing levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide
What is chemoreceptors?
The leading cause of death in the early adulthood age group
What is accidents?
The space between the vocal cords that defines the boundary between the upper and lower airways
What is glottic opening?
An insufficiency of oxygen in the body's tissues
What is hypoxia?
The extent of limits of an EMT's occupation is referred to as?
What is Scope of Practice?
Referring to the back of the body or the back of the hand or foot
What is dorsal?
What are leukocytes?
The pressure in the peripheral blood vessels that the heart must overcome to pump blood in the system
What is systemic vascular resistance (SVR)?
Concept developed from an orderly, predictable environment versus a disorderly, irregular environment
What is trust versus mistrust?
Vomiting or retching that results when something is placed in the back of the pharynx. This is tied to the swallow reflex.
What is gag reflex?
A process by which molecules move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration
What is diffusion?
The federal law designed to protect the patient's private medical information
What is HIPAA?
What is plantar?
A hollow organ containing acidic gastric juices that begin the breakdown of food into components that the body will be able to convert to energy
What is stomach?
A substance that, when dissolved in water, separates into charged particles
What is electrolyte?
Stage of life from 6 to 12 years
What is school age?
Compared to an adult's airway physiology, the pediatric airway includes
1. More dependency on the diaphragm for breathing
2. A chest wall that is softer than adults
3. A tongue that takes up proportionately more space in the mouth
What is all the above?
The amount of air that reaches the alveoli during an inhalation
What is alveolar ventilation?