Through The Years
This act charged the U.S. Department of Transportation with developing EMS standards in 1966.
What is the National Highway Safety Act?
Standard Precautions designed to protect against these.
What are Transmitted diseases?
You should consider this about an object before lifting a patient.
What is The weight of the object?
A collective set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the extent and limits of an EMT’s job.
What is Scope of Practice?
The root 'cardi' refer to
What is Heart?
This organization was founded in 1970 to establish professional standards for EMTs.
What is the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians?
Bloodborne pathogens can be contracted by this.
What is Exposure to the patient's blood and other body fluids?
Proper position for your feet when lifting a patient.
What is Shoulder-width apart on a firm, level surface?
The care that would be expected to be provided by an EMT with similar training when caring for a patient in a similar situation.
What is Standard of Care?
Dyspnea
What is Difficult breathing?
Helped established the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
OSHA
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
You should avoid doing this while lifting a patient?
What is Twisting or turning?
A process involving mutual critique to improve skills, communication, and patient outcomes in emergency care.
What is Quality Improvement?
Medical term for inflammation of the liver.
What is Hepatitis?
What is The National Emergency Medical Services Systems Act?
Gloves should be changed between patients for this reason.
What is To prevent cross-contamination?
This is used for carrying a patient on stairs.
Type of consent must be obtained from a conscious, mentally competent adult before providing care.
What is Expressed consent?
Root word meaning air or lungs
What is Pneumo?
Each EMS system have to ensure accountability for EMS personnel activities?
What is A Medical Director?
The primary reason for wearing personal protective equipment (PPE).
What is To prevent exposure to contagious diseases?
This is preferred when pushing or pulling a weight.
What is Push?
Consent assumed for an unconscious or incapacitated patient in need of emergency care .
What is implied consent?
The study of body structure
What is Anatomy?