The person who is responsible for autorizing EMT's to preform medical in the feild is the __________.
What is MEDICAL DIRECTOR
100
The term Pharmacology is most accurately defined as?
What is The study of the drugs and their actions.
100
used to establish a line of questioning in medical patients
What is Onset, Provokes, Quality, Radiation, Severity, & Time.(OPQRST)
100
The goal of the primary assesment is to ________________.
What is, Identify and rapidly treat, Life threating conditions.
100
When preforming a secondary assement on a conscious patient with non- trumatic abdominal pain and stable vital signs you should ___________________.
What is focus on chief complaint.
200
What type of concent is involved when a thirty-nine year old, mentally competent patient with a severe headache asks you to take them to the hospital.
What is Expressed
200
Aspirin is beneficial to patients suspected of having a heart attack because it ___________________.
What is reducing the clotting ability of blood?
200
An Adjunct that will keep the tongue forward in an unresponsive patient without the presence of this________
What is Oral pharyngeal Airway(OPA) and gag reflex?
200
The normal respiratry rate for an adult should range from___________________?
What is 12 to 20 per minute.
200
At the onset of an acute asthma attack, patient commonly experience what breathing difficulty_________________.
What is Expiratory wheezing.
300
Equipment that protects the EMT from infection and/or exposures?
What is PPE or BSI.
300
a drug the helps dilate the coronary vessels that supply the heart muscle with blood.
What is Nitroglycerin?
300
Used to obtain a complete assessment in every patient.
What is SAMPLE?
300
The chief complaint is defined as the_____________.
What is, Most serious thing the patient is concerned about.
300
Harsh, high pitched inspiratory sounds are characteristic of _______________________.
What is Stridor.
400
This move is done when the scene is hazardous with life threatening conditions require repositioning or you must reach another patient.
What is emergency moves.
400
The medical term for an extremely Low blood Glucose level is ____________.
What is: Hypoglycemia
400
There are four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)
What is EMR,EMT, AeMT,Paramedic.
400
The pressure exerted against the walls of the artery when the left ventricle contracts is called the ____________________.
What is, Systolic pressure.
400
Insulin functions in the body by ________________.
What is enabling the glucouse to enter the cells.
500
You and your patner responed to the secene of a patient that appears to weigh in excess of 350 pounds. Your FIRST action should be?
What is Scene Safe?
500
Route of administration and drug used in anaphylaxis
What is epinephrine(epi-pen) and IM(intramuscular)
500
Each cell of the body combines nutrients and oxygen and produces and energy and waste product through a process called___________________.
What is Metabolism
500
What part of the patient assement process focuses on obtaining additional information about the patients chief complaint and any other medical problems they may have.