Shock
Pale, cool, clammy skin, Rapid, weak pulse
Rapid breathing (tachypnea)
Low blood pressure (late sign)
What are the signs and symptoms of shock?
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is Personal Safety.
leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training. Other than intimate danger to EMS personal.
What is Abandonment.
Name the five divisions of the spine.
What is cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.
The dominant pacemaker of the heart is...
What is SA Node.
The last vital sign to change in response to shock.
What is blood pressure?
There are four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)
What is first responder, EMT basic, EMT intermediate, and EMT paramedic.
The consent that 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.
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
The normal adult pulse rate range.
What is 60-100bpm
Shock caused by an allergic reaction.
What is anaphylactic shock?
Protects the emergency care provider from civil law suits
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
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.
The body system responsible for control and communication through electrical signals.
What is the nervous system?
How to open a patient's airway with a suspected C spine injury
Modified jaw thrust
The type of shock caused by loss of blood volume.
What is hemorrhagic shock?
BSI
What is body substance isolation?
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.
The large artery that carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the body.
What is the aorta?
The medical term for difficulty breathing.
What is dyspnea
Shock caused by a systemic infection.
What septic shock?
The document used by EMTs to record patient care, assessments, and treatments.
What is a PCR (Patient Care Report)?
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 HIPAA.
The body system responsible for pumping blood throughout the body.
What is the cardiovascular system?
The central nervous system is composed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.