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What are the guidelines that you are working under as an EMT?
What is the standard of care
To make sure that we are safe and to have the big picture before going in to help
Why do we do a scene size up?
This document records the assessment, treatment, and transport of an EMS patient.
What is the Patient Care Report (PCR)?
The average systolic blood pressure for an adult?
What is 120?
A good listener, caring, well trained, able to make good decisions, ability to communicate and work with others.
What are traits of a good EMT?
If I stop to assist a patient and then leave because I have an appointment and before help arrives, what is it called?
What is abandonment.
Weapons, downed power lines, traffic, blood, broken glass, chemicals.
What are some examples of some scene safety concerns?
Patient statements such as “My chest feels like someone is sitting on it” should generally be documented using these.
What are quotation marks/direct quotes?
6 to 12 years
What are school-age children?
What is ALS and what is BLS?
What is Basic Life support and Advanced Life Support.
Laws that protect citizens who are willing to help others.
What are the Good Samaritan Laws.
Examples of PPE?
What are gloves, gowns, glasses, face shields, masks.
If an error is made on a handwritten patient care report, this is the appropriate way to correct it.
What is drawing a single line through the error?
Behavior that is motivated by the approval of peers, community, or society.
What is conventional reasoning?
DAILY DOUBLE
This type of medical direction occurs when an EMT communicates directly with a physician or other authorized medical provider for instructions.
DAILY DOUBLE
What do I need before providing care to a conscious and alert patient?
This technique reduces the chance of back injury when lifting a patient or stretcher.
What is proper body mechanics?
The format for writing a narrative
What is ICHEATED
Adults are anyone 18 years of age or older. These are the three categories and ages they are separated into.
What is; Early adult (18 - 40); Middle adult (40 - 65); Older Adult (65 and older)
To begin providing care on site rather than waiting until patients are in the hospital. To expedite transportation to the next level of care.
Why do we have EMS?
A patient tells you to leave them alone and that they won't go to the hospital after you offer to call them an ambulance.
What is refusal of care.
A patient begins coughing heavily while the EMT is performing an airway assessment. In addition to gloves, this type of PPE may be appropriate depending on the exposure risk.
What is respiratory and eye protection?
An assigned frequency used to carry voice or data communications.
What is a channel?
This age group commonly experiences stranger anxiety and may become distressed when separated from a parent or caregiver.
Who are toddlers?
Earliest ambulances that are recorded in history
What are artillery carts used in war by Napoleon's armies in the 1700's.