Human Body
The word part meaning "within" or "inside"
What is "endo"?
The process of accessing a patient without the need for special tools or training.
What is simple extrication?
The first source of information obtained by emergency medical technicians.
What is dispatch?
A patient access method used when they have a life-threatening condition occurring.
What is an urgent move?
The primary function of the respiratory system.
What is the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen between the blood and the environment?
Clinical term describing inflammation of the liver.
What is hepatitis?
The most common place for collisions involving emergency vehicles.
What are intersections?
Very useful tool in modern EMS, but may not be reliable when satellitles/networks are crowded.
What are cell phones?
The appropriate way to hold an object you are lifting from a squatting position.
What is the power grip?
The type of cellular metabolism that produces lactic acid as a byproduct.
What is anaerobic?
What is the urethra?
Must be obtained prior to proceeding through a stoplight while running lights and sirens.
An interviewing method to obtain information quickly that does not allow for much elaboration.
What is a closed-ended question?
The minimum number of people that should be used to safely operate a stair chair.
What is 3 people?
The fluid in which all formed components of the blood are carried.
What is plasma?
The name of the driving stimulus to breathe in patients without a respiratory disease.
What is carbonic drive?
The appropriate direction to approach a helicopter from.
What is the front?
The amount of time you should pause when keying up your radio to speak into it.
What is one second?
Placing a patient in the prone position looks like this.
What is on their belly/face down?
Aerobic metabolism produces this number of ATP molecules.
What is 36 - 38 molecules?
The amount of air that moves into and out of the lungs with each respiration.
What is tidal volume?
Action that takes twice the distance to do when roadways are wet vs. when they are dry.
What is stopping?
The regulating body for all radio transmissions
What is the FCC?
This type of clothing cannot be used to perform a shirt drag urgent move.
What is a t-shirt?
What is the brain?