Med Term
Describe 'word root'
Main part/stem of a word that conveys the essential mean and frequently indicates a body part
Who is responsible for authorizing EMTs to perform emergency medical care in the field?
Who is the medical director
Which type of medical direction do standing orders and protocols describe?
What is offline medical direction
Which equipment is appropriate to wear at an automobile collision?
Reflective gear, Turn out gear, Boots, tough gloves, helmet
Patient has fractured bones in their left leg. Which bones might be involved in this injury?
What is femur, tibia, and fibula
What bone describes the upper jaw
That is the maxilla
Patient has fallen and has pain in their hip. Patient is on their back with their left leg turned inward. Describe this position in medical terms.
What is supine with medial rotation of the left lower extremity.
Which structure or vessel carries oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium?
What is the superior and inferior vena cava
What is the term used for parts of the body that lie farther from the midline?
What is lateral
Name reasons why you would contact a medical director?
You have direct orders to administer certain treatments, patient restraint, medical clarification, death, etc.
The responsibility of an EMT to provide patient care is called...
Name the stages of grief?
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, & Depression
Involuntary or smooth muscle are found in the walls of which type of structures in the body?
What are blood vessels and intestines.
Describe agonal respirations
Irregular, occasional, gasping, inadequate for maintaining life
You are tranporting a female patient with terminal cancer. She is sad, tearful, and asks 'why me'. What stage of grieving is the patient experiencing?
What is depression
Terms: Occipital, Parietal, Frontal, and Temporal can refer collectively to which part of the body?
What is the cranium or skull
Your patient states they have a history of an AMI, what does "AMI" mean? Use medical terminology
What is an Acute Myocardial Infarction
Name the federal agency that develops, publishes, and enforces guidelines concerning safety in the workplace?
What is OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration
In which situation would treatment and transport of a minor without express consent of the parents be allowed?
What the minor has a life-threatening injury.
The most common causes of respiratory arrest in infants and children is likely to include...
For the 1st year of life, an infant has natural acquired passive immunities because of natural phenomonen...
What is receiving antibodies through breastfeeding/breastmilk
From the most superior to most inferior, describe composition of the spinal column?
What is cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx
You are transporting a stable patient, when you come across a major accident involving critical injuries. You should...
Continue transporting your patient and notify dispatch/county of the crash
What is the femoral artery
Define tidal volume
What is air moved into or out of the lungs during a single breath.
Even before you get to the scene of an emergency, what is the most important thing that you and your partners ensure is occurring?
Evaluating every scene, every dispatched area for danger before entering
Describe the type of developmental reasoning do school age use when they are seeking approval from their peers and society
What is conventional reasoning
What is the normal respiratory rate for an infant?
What is 25-50 breaths/minute
Compared to younger adults, older adults generally have a harder time breathing because this occurs within their lungs
What is the natural flexibility and elasticity of the lungs decrease over time allowing lungs to not function as well in younger years
The sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves arise from what large nervous system?
What is the autonomic nervous system
When encountering a pediatric patient with depressed fontanelles, you should the patient to be experiencing....
What is dehydration
Describe perfusion
What is the delivery of essential products and nutrients to the cells for their use
Patient has severe swelling to the leaf-shaped flap that helps to prevent food from entering the lower respiratory system while swallowing? Name this patient's condition in medical terminology?
What is epiglottitis
Describe the types of consent and provide an example of each?
What is implied consent, expressed consent, informed consent, involuntary consent
This occurs when a person comes in contact with blood, bodily fluids, tissues, or airborne particles in a manner that suggest disease transmission may occur?
The highest priority for the EMT working on a patient when approaching the scene of a crime is:
Ensuring personal safety first and foremost
The infant airway differs from the adult airway in what big way?
What is the infant's tongue takes up proportionately more space in the mouth
What is the primary role of baroreceptors in the body
What is monitor blood pressure
Describe the definition of puberty
What is the maturation of the sexual organs for both males and females
Oxygen and Carbon dioxide pass across the alveolar capillary membrane through a process called...
What is diffusion
Describe the anatomical position
What is standing with the arms down at their side and palms facing forward
Negligence is based the following 4 concepts...
Duty to act, Breach of duty, Causation, and Real/Perceived damages
The EMT practice of protecting oneself from disease transmission through exposure to blood and other body fluids is referred to as:
What are standard precautions.
What is adolescence
What respiratory action occurs when the diaphragm and intercostal muscles relax?
What is exhalation
A patient's sympathetic nervous system has been stimulated, what signs or symptoms would an EMT expect to find?
Why is it important to assess an infant patient for a potential head, neck, or spine injury?
Infants often land headfirst when they fall due to the weight of their head compared to the rest of the body
Freshly oxygenated blood is returned to the left atrium through the:
What is the pulmonary veins