Medication Administration
This medication route involves swallowing a medication
What is Oral (PO)?
This life-threatening condition occurs when the circulatory system cannot deliver enough oxygen and nutrients to the body's tissues
What is Shock
This term describes whether a patient's airway is open and unobstructed
What is airway patency
This muscle contracts during inhalation, allowing air to enter the lungs
What is diaphragm
This is the first step in patient asessment
What is scene size up
These three medication routes deliver medication under the tongue, into a muscle, and into the nose
What is Sublingual (SL), Intramuscular (IM), and Intranasal (IN).
These three are components of the Perfusion Triangle
What is the pump (heart), container (blood vessels), and fluid (blood volume).
These four structures make up the upper airway
What is nose, mouth, pharynx, and larynx
This is where gas exchange occur in the lungs
What are alveoli
These are the normal adult pulse range, respiratory rate, and approximate blood pressure
What is pulse of 60–100 beats per minute, respiratory rate of 12–20 breaths per minute, and blood pressure around 120/80 mmHg.
These are the key five rights in medication administration
What is right patient, right medication, right dose, right route, and right time.
These are two types of shock are caused by blood or fluid loss and the heart's inability to pump effectively
What is hypovolemic shock and cardiogenic shock.
These four structures are part of the lower respiratory tract
What is trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, and alveoli.
These are four oxygen-delivery devices
What is nasal cannula, simple face mask, nonrebreather mask, and bag-valve mask (BVM).
These three acronyms are commonly used for patient history and secondary assessments
What is SAMPLE, OPQRST, and DCAP-BTLS.
The seven medications EMTs commonly administer or assist with
What is oxygen, oral glucose, aspirin, nitroglycerin, albuterol, epinephrine, and naloxone.
This category of shock includes septic, neurogenic, and anaphylactic shock?
What is distributive shock.
The airway adjunct abbreviations OPA and NPA stand for
What is oropharyngeal airway and nasopharyngeal airway.
These are five abnormal lung sound findings should EMTs recognize
What is stridor, wheezes, crackles (rales), rhonchi, and absent breath sounds.
This is how often should stable and unstable patients be reassessed
What is every 15 minutes for stable patients and every 5 minutes for unstable patients.
These are six important pieces of information should EMTs know about each medication
What are/is idications, contraindications, dose, route, adverse effects, and action on the patients body
These are the four major categories of shock and the three stages of shock progression
What is hypovolemic, cardiogenic, distributive, and obstructive shock.
What is compensated, decompensated, and irreversible.
These are four possible causes of airway obstruction and three ways to assess airway patency
What is the tongue, foreign bodies, swelling, secretions, blood, vomit, and trauma (any four).
What is checking the ability to speak, observing chest rise, and listening for airflow.
These are seven abnormal breathing patterns
What is tachypnea, bradypnea, apnea, Kussmaul respirations, Cheyne-Stokes respirations, Biot's respirations, and ataxic respirations.
These factors determine a patient's transport priority in the field
What is patient stability, immediate life threats, time-sensitive conditions such as stroke, and the EMS system's ability to provide definitive care.