Termonology
Ambulance
Functions
Inside the Ambulance/ Helicopter
Workers
100
What does ER stand for?
What is Emergency Room.
100

What is the traditional color of an ambulance?

What is white?

100

What forms of transportation do EMT's use?

What is a helicopter and an ambulance.

100
Where do the EMT's keep their supplies?
What is in the cabinets inside the ambulance or the helicopter.
100
Who works in an ambulance?
What is paramedics and Emergency Medical Technicians.
200
What does EMT stand for?
What is Emergency Medical Transport or Emergency Medical Technicians.
200

When are ambulances allowed to exceed the posted speed limit?

What is only when the situation is critical.

200

Evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide sage and ethical care. 

Certification

200
What do EMT's and paramedics sit on in an ambulance or helicopter?
What is a bench.
200

Can perform supraglottic airway, suctioning and subcutaneous injections

Advanced EMT

300

What is a patient carried out on?

What is a cot or stretcher?

300

What type of vehicle can an ambulance not pass when transporting a patient?

What is a school bus when the school bus' lights are flashing when dropping off kids or picking them up.

300

When is being airlifted required?

What is when far from a hospital or patient condition warrants.

300
What is a gurney used for in an ambulance or helicopter?
What is to lay the patient down while transporting him/ her.
300

What 2 medication routes are EMT basic allowed to perform?

What is oral and sublingual

400
What does it mean to be airlifted?
What is when a helicopter takes you to a hospital.
400

When does an EMT consider padding shoulders?

What is when a child is on a spine board.

400

List 5 attributes of the EMT

Integrity, empathy, self motivation, hygiene, self confidence, time management, communication, teamwork, respect, patient advocacy, careful delivery of care

400
What is the mission of EMT's while in the ambulance or helicopter?
What is to strive to provide the highest quality care they can.
400
What law are the workers protected by?
What is The Good Samaritan Law.
500

The forward facing part of the hand in the anatomic position

palmar

500

When is CISD performed?

What is within 72 hours.

500
What is the primary purpose of an EMT?
What is to transport a person who has become suddenly ill to an emergency room.
500
What is the most important "medicine" an EMT can administer?
What is oxygen.
500

5 stages of decision making during a call

Gather data, interpret data, develop a plan, communicate the plan, evaluate the plan

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