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Minimum PPE to be worn during every patient encounter.
What are gloves?
Terminology for the concepts of "right and wrong".
What are morals?
A disease that can be spread from one person to another.
What is a communicable disease?
The practice of maintaining a patient's privacy, modesty, and private health information.
What is confidentiality?
Intramuscular, Sublingual, Oral, Inhalation, Intranasal.
What are routes of medication administration?
An individual required to notify authorities for any suspicion of abuse or neglect.
What is a mandated reporter?
Unauthorized confinement of a person.
What is false imprisonment?
Unusual irritability, distractedness, and social distancing.
What are signs of stress response/burnout?
What is while on duty?
Drug particles mixed in a suitable liquid that must be shaken well before administration.
What is a suspension?
Evidence like unresponsiveness, lack of a carotid pulse, and absence of breath sounds.
What are presumptive signs of death?
Determines whether an EMT provided and performed appropriate assessment and patient care.
What is standard of care?
Appropriate procedure immediately following a needle stick.
What is contact your supervisor?
Refusing to evaluate or treat a patient who has arrived at an ER to receive emergency medical care.
What is an EMTALA violation?
Most common uses of a drug in treating a specific condition.
What are indications?
U.S. DOT requirements for information that must be included in every patient run/care report.
What is the minimum data set?
Permission to treat a patient who is unconscious or otherwise unable to make informed decisions.
What is implied consent?
A type of program provided by the fire department to install car seats in vehicles free of charge to prevent pediatric injury in MVCs.
What is a public health/primary prevention program?
Unlawfully placing a person in fear of immediate bodily harm.
What is assault?
Device that creates a fine spray of drug particles of a specific size that is administered IN?
What is a mucosal atomizer device (MAD)?
What is discoloration caused by blood settling?
What is dependent lividity?
Actions and care that EMTs are legally allowed to perform by the state in which they work.
What is scope of practice?
A patient who is alert, oriented, and has a GCS of 15 does not want to be treated or transported. This patient has...
Breach of legal duty in which the patient suffered damages as a result of proximate cause.
What is negligence?
2-PAM and Atropine are used to treat this condition.
What is organophosphate poisoning?