Assessment
Gloves and eye protection are examples of this
What are standard precautions?
This was the decade when modern EMS began.
What were the 1960's
This disease is a disease of high blood sugar.
What is diabetes?
This is what caused the injury.
What is mechanism of injury?
Geriatrics
What are elderly people?
The goal of this, is to identify and treat life threatening injuries or illnesses.
What is the primary assessment?
The single best means of mitigating infection.
What is handwashing?
Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis fall under this much broader respiratory category.
What is COPD?
A critically injured patient should be transported to this type of facility.
What is a trauma center?
This population may do better when doing a physical exam starting at the feet and moving up the body.
What is pediatrics?
The "Q" in OPQRST
What is quality?
This device is used to transport patients up and down stairs.
What is a stair chair?
This condition can present with coffee ground emesis.
What is a GI bleed?
Shock caused by low volume.
What is hypovolemic shock?
Bariatrics
What is obese people?
The "P" in DCAP-BTLS
What are punctures/penetrations?
This principal is assuming that all patients have an infectious disease.
What are Universal Precautions?
A disease with malformed red blood cells primarily affecting people of African descent.
What is sickle cell anemia?
This is the treatment for a closed midshaft femur fracture.
What is a traction splint?
40 weeks
What is the length of a pregnancy?
This is a list of possible diagnoses that a patient could have.
What is a differential diagnosis?
This federal agency is charged with overseeing EMS at the national level.
What is the Department of Transportation?
NY 9.41 Law
What is an involuntary mental health transport?
What swelling around an injury causes a block of circulation.
What is compartment syndrome?
Cephalic delivery
What is a headfirst delivery?