EMS Systems
This is your responsibility every two years once you obtain your EMT certification
What is completion of my education requirements?
This system is the scaffolding of the body giving it it's shape and the ability to move
What is the musculoskeletal system?
Anatomical term meaning front of
What is Anterior>
During your primary assessment you should focus on
What are life threats?
This is the care you are legally allowed to give as an EMT in Massachusetts
What is Scope of Practice
You will perform your duties as an EMT under this persons license and you will receive online and offline direction from them
Who is medical control or medical director?
Inhalation requires muscle use to occur which makes it a/an ____________ process?
What is active?
Anatomical term meaning back of
What is Posterior?
The primary assessment helps to determine
What is patient severity and/or priority for care and transport?
These orders do not generally require you to consult medical direction prior to being carried out
What are Standing Orders
In the year 1970 this department came up with the first official EMS Curriculum
Who is the Department of Transportation (DOT)?
During exhalation the diaphragm and intercostal muscles relax causing a/an ___________ pressure in the chest cavity
What is increased?
Anatomical term meaning closer to the body
What is proximal?
This is when we first lay eyes on the patient and their environment
What is general impression?
This type of consent is obtained from an unresponsive patient on the basis that if responsive a reasonable person would want treatment
What is implied consent
These are the four levels of EMS provider that are typically recognized at the National level
What are EMR, EMT, AEMT and Paramedic?
This section of the heart is responsible for pumping blood out to the body
What is the left ventricle?
Anatomical term meaning further from the body
What is distal?
Once we have formed our general impression and assessed our patients mental status these are the three vital things we assess next
What are Airway, Breathing and Circulation
These are documents that allow you to legally withhold resuscitation from a patient from a patient in cardiac arrest
What is DNR or MOLST
This document published in the 1990's came up with a plan to standardize the levels of EMS education and providers
What is the EMS Agenda for the Future?
During normal cellular metabolism there is a high concentration of oxygen in the blood and a high concentration of ____________ in the cells
What is carbon dioxide?
Line drawn down the center of the patients body creating left and right halves respectively
What is midline?
A significant problem with your patient's mental status, airway, breathing or circulation has been identified during your primary assessment. Your next course of action is
What is fix the problem?
You must transfer your patient to this level of care before leaving them or you are guilty of abandonment
What is a higher level of care