Vocabulary
A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certain situations.
What are Standing Orders?
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.
What is Abandonment.
Name the five divisions of the spine.
What is servical thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.
What is the only vein that carries oxygenated blood in the body's circulatory system?
What is the pulmonary vein?
A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious.
What is Standard/Universal Precautions?
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 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.
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
In medical terminology the suffix "itis" means
What is the inflammation of?
This condition is a state in which fluid loss is greater than fluid intake
What is Dehydration?
Medical director issues a standing order that allows EMT's to give medication in certain circumstances without speaking directly to the medical director. This is known as..
What is offline medical direction.
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.
What is the largest organ of the human body?
What is the skin
to prevent injury when lifting a patient. two methods commonly used are...
What is power lift, and power grip.
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?
This long tape is graduated in colors identifying specific information, Intervention, and dosages for a demographic range of a human child
What is is a length based assessment tape?
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 human skeletal system is made up of _________ bones
What is 206
The outer most part of the skin is called.....
What is the epidermis.
This condition is marked by unprovoked bleeding from the nose
What is Spontaneous Epistaxis?
A disc shaped tool used by EMS having a sliding window with information pertaining to age, weight, and drug dosages for children
What is a Pedi Wheel
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.(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)
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
The central nervous system is composed of what two parts
What is the brain and spinal cord.