Vocabulary
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Medical/Legal
Human Body
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A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certian situations.
What is Standing Orders?
100
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is Personal Safety.
100
leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
What is Abandonment.
100
Name the five divisions of the spine.
What is servical thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.
100

The wrist is _______ to the elbow?

Distal

100

impaled nail in the hand.  Best treatment to do

Stabilize nail with bulky dressing and transport

100

type of radiation that requires the LEAST amount of shielding to protect the responders

Alpha

200
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?
200

There are four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)

What is EMR, EMT , EMT advanced, and EMT paramedic.

200
The consent it is presumed a patient or patients parent would give if they could such as for an unconscioius patient or a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed.
What is implied consent.
200
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
200
List the 3 types of moves.
What is emergancy moves, urgent moves, and non-urgent moves
200

Normal type of metabolism when a balance of adequate oxygen and glucoses?

Aerobic metabolism

200

The wrist is _______ to the elbow

Distal

300
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?
300
Medical director issues a standing order that allows EMT's to give medication in certian circumstances without speaking directly to the medical director. This is known as..
What is offline medical direction.
300
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation i which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is Negligence.
300
List the organs in the upper left quadrant
What is liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney, and colon.
300
to prevent ingury when lifting a patient. two methods commonly used are...
What is power lift, and power grip.
300

What occurs as a negative pressure process

Inhalation

300

what occurs during negative pressure process?

Inhalation

400
A method of lifting and carrying a patient during which one rescuer slips hand under the patient's armpits and grasps the wrists, while another rescuer grasps the patients knees.
What is Extremity Lift?
400
Which of the following statments about DNR orders are false. A. A DNR order requires a signature from a physician. B. You do not actually have to see the order verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient. C. Mentally competent patients may refuse care.
What is Answer B. You do not actually have to see the order verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient.
400
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent, and lmits of the EMT's job
What is scope of practice.
400

Fontanel on 8 month old with meningitis bulges. Why?

ICP has increased

400
The outer most part of the skin is called.....
What is epidermis.
400

what gas in the blood increases during respiratory failure?

carbon dioxide

400

 color of tag on Pt with respirations of 28 HR of 112 Semiconscious.

Red

500
Form the structure of the cheeks.
What is Zygomatic Arches?
500

The first to arrive at a car crash... Where do you park?

upstream of the crash at an angle to the flow of traffic

500
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.
500
List in order the number of vertebrae in order of the spinal column.
What is cervical 7 thoracic 12 lumbar 5 sacral 5 coccyx 4
500
The central nervous system is compposed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.
500

How often to squeeze a BVM when ventilating an adult PT

every six seconds and enough to see the chest rise.

500

what do you suspect on a PT that fell and hit head, was unresponsive prior to your arrival and can't remember what happen.  Then goes unresponsive again.

epidural bleed

600
PT experiencing aphasia, blurred vision and headache may have?

Stroke

600

What do you do when Pt has feet presentation during child birth?

support and assist with delivery.

600

pt with audible and visual hallucinations you should tell the PT? 

That you can not see or hear them.

600

proper airway position for an infant

put padding under shoulders

600

PT appears to start breathing during chest comparison. what is your next step?

check a pulse

600

productive cough, white sputum, excessive mucus thickening of walls of bronichioles ?

chronic bronchitis

600

gunshot wound to the neck. life threatening bleeding from the wound.  after you apply direct pressure you should follow with????

Occlusive dressing

700

What is Epistaxis? and How to treat it

Nose bleed.  Pinch nose together and lean forward

700

PG Pt having contractions, and bleeding, large pool of blood noted.  what do you suspect is happening?

Placenta previa

700

Pt with decubitus Ulcers that is bed ridden and relies on a care giver. bed wet with urine. what neglect /abuse is happening?

Physical abuse

700

edema in legs and abdomen, jaundiced, history of alcohol abuse. what is affected

Liver

700
what does insulin do?

Moves glucose into cells

700

skin pale and moist, confused, passed out responds to painful stimuli only

hypoglyycemia

700

your first on scene of mass causality incident.  You should first do what?  

establish command

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