Vocabulary
Introduction
Medical/Legal
Human Body
Random
100
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/Scene 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

You would transport this wrapped in gauze in a plastic bag on ice

An amputated body part

200

A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious.

What are  Standard Precautions (BSI, PPE)

200

The minimum level of certification required to properly staff an ambulance.

EMT

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 emergency moves, urgent moves, and non-urgent moves

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

When flaps of skin or tissue are torn loose or completely pulled off

Avulsion

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

What is the organization that is responsible for overseeing EMS at the federal level?

The National Highway Safety and Traffic Administration

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

The 3 layers of the skin from outside to inside

What are epidermis, dermis, and Subcutaneous

400
The outer most part of the skin is called.....
What is epidermis.
500

This is injury to the skin is sometimes called “road rash” or “rug burn”

What is an abrasion

500

The name of a program or process that is used for evaluating and improving the effectiveness of an EMS system.

Quality Improvement

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.
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