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
What does CCR stand for?
Cardiocerebral Resuscitation
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
What does "A" stand for in SAMPLE?
Allergies
100
Myocardium is muscle of what organ?
Heart
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
What is the protocol for airway and O2 during CCR
insert oral airway, apply O2 NRB at 15 lpm
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
What does "U" stand for in AVPU?
Unresponsive
200
List the 3 types of moves.
What is emergancy 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
Compressions during CCR should be at a rate of?
100 compressions per minute.
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
What is the lowest score your patient can receive using the GCS scale?
3.
300
to prevent ingury when lifting a patient. two methods commonly used are...
What is power lift, and power grip.
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
EMS Providers should provide aggressive resuscitation on scene for at least _____
minutes prior to consideration of transport or termination.
20 minutes
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
What does the "R" stand for in OPQRST?
radiate
400
The outer most part of the skin is called.....
What is epidermis.
500
Form the structure of the cheeks.
What is Zygomatic Arches?
500
The (Cardiocerebral Resuscitation) CCR protocol is designed for cardiac arrest in which type of patients?
patients 8 and older
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
What does PMS stand for when assessing your patient's neurologic status?