Medical Legal
Terminology
Cardiac Emergencies
Anatomy and Physiology
Pharmacology
200

All the things you are allowed to do at her certification level. 

What is scop of practice? 

200
Lying flat on your back.

What is supine? 

200

Tachycardia

What is a fast heart rate?

200

The grape like structure where gas exchange happens int he lungs.

What are alveoli? 

200

This medication may be used by someone experiencing hypoglycemia.

What is oral glucose?

400

This is the principal that similarly trained EMT will do the same thing under similar circumstances. 

What is standard of care? 

400

This term is used to describe something closer to the torso.

What is proximal? 

400

smoking, hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia are all risk factors for this cardiac condition. 

What is coronary artery disease? 

400

These vessels carry blood away from the heart. 

What are arteries? 

400

Also known are Proventil, this medication is used to treat broncho constriction.

What is Albuterol? 

600

leaving the patient without turning care over to an equal or higher level of care. 

What is abandonment? 

600

A blue color to the skin

What is cyanosis? 

600

When the heart stops pumping blood

What is cardiac arrest? 
600

The windpipe

What is the trachea? 

600

These are conditions under which we can't give a medication.

What are contraindications? 

800

assuming if the patient were competent, they would give expressed consent  

What is implied consent? 

800

A yellow color to the skin 

What is jaundice? 

800

When heart muscle begins to die as a result of lack of oxygen.

What is a myocardial infarction?

800

This organ stores bile. 

What is the gall bladder?

800

This is the dose of nitroglycerine.

What is 0.4 mg

1000

In gross negligence, the plaintiff must prove this concept that the breach of duty caused the damages. 

What is proximal causation? 

1000

Cholecystitis

What is inflammation of the gallbladder?

1000

AAA

What is an abdominal aortic aneurism? 

1000

Insulin in produce from this organ.

What is the pancreas?  

1000

acetylsalicylic acid

What is aspirin? 

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