Vocabulary
A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certain situations.
What is Standing Orders
A Puncture wound to the chest with air movement coming out?
What is an OPEN CHEST WOUND
The elbow is located ______ to the wrist.
What is PROXIMAL
Leaving a patient before turning him or her over to someone of the same or higher level of care.
What is Abandonment?
A hormone that helps lower blood sugar levels.
What is INSULIN
A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious.
What is Standard Precautions
A lower leg fracture with two bones protruding.
What is a COMPOUND TIBIA & FIBULA FRACTURE
Name the five divisions of the spine.
What is CERVICAL, THORACIC, LUMBAR, SACRAL AND COCCYX
Simple form of sugar that is the body's main source of energy.
What is Glucose?
Facial droop, speech impairments and arm drift.
What are the assessment test for the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent and limits, of the EMT's job.
What is Scope of Practice
Ribs that move opposite of the chest wall.
What is a FLAIL SEGMENT
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is Right Atrium, Right Ventricle, Left Atrium and Left Ventricle
Stroke like event that will always resolve with 24 hours.
What is Transient Ischemic Attack?
Swollen vein apparent on the lateral aspect of the neck of the patient
What is JVD
The consent it is presumed a patient or patients parent would give if they could such as for an unconscious patient or a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed.
What is implied consent
Dark rings around the eyes or periorbital ecchymosis is a sign of basal skull fracture.
What is RACOON EYE'S
The system responsible for taking oxygen to the body tissues.
What is the Circulatory System
When administering a medication what 5 Rights will you be checking?
What is right patient, the right drug, the right dose, the right route, and the right time
DCAP-BTLS
What is Deformities, Contusions, Abrasions, Punctures/Penetrations, Burns, Tenderness, Lacerations, Swelling?
A federal law protecting the privacy of the patients specific health care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed.
What is HIPPA
That sound of broken bones rubbing together.
What is CREPITUS
The organ that can be injured from a sharp blow to the back.
What is the Kidney?
What does Aspiring do to the blood?
What is causes the blood to be more "slippery".
Reduces the work load of the heart & reduces clotting
The central nervous system is composed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.