Airway,Respiration & Ventilation
Cardiac & ROSC
Trauma
Medical/OB/GYN
Operations
Vocabulary
Acronyms
100

What is reduced when patients respirations are shallow?

What is Tidal volume

100

What should you do to someone who is found to be unresponsive, pulseless, and apneic

What is start CPR, or similar.

100

What is the treatment for a patient with an arterial bleed on the upper leg?

What is direct pressure

100

What body system is being assessed during pulse, motor, sensation, and pupillary response

What is the neurologic system?

100

What does a positive TB skin test indicate?

What is something similar to exposure to TB

100

What is the leaf-shaped flap of cartilage that prevents food and liquid from entering the trachea?

What is the epiglottis?

100

What is E in SAMPLE

What is Events Leading up to?

200

How does CPAP improve oxygenation and ventilation?

What is forcing the alveoli open or something similar

200

Average adult heart rate range?

What is 60 - 100

200

An elderly patient has fallen and hit her head., what should you focus your attention on?

What is the ABC's or something similar

200

What separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity? 

What is the diaphragm?

200

The process performed to artificially maximize the target population's exposure to a biologic agent, thereby exposing the greatest number of people and achieving the desired effect, is called

What is weaponization

200

The process of exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between the alveoli and the

blood of the capillaries is called:

What is external respiration.

200

What does L stand for in DUMBELS & SLUDGEM

What is Lacrimation?

300

What respiratory muscles are not well developed in children?

What is intercostal muscles

300

After squeezing the end of a childs finger or toe for a few seconds, blood should return

to the area within:

What is two seconds?

300

How do you treat an evisiceration?

What is apply warm, wet sterile occlusive dressing or something similar

300

What is the premature separation of the placenta called?

What is placenta abruptio or abruptio placenta

300

The person who is responsible for authorizing EMTs to perform emergency medical care in the field is the: 


shift supervisor.

medical director.

EMS administrator.

field training officer.


Who is the Medical Director?

300

What connects bones to other bones?

What is Ligaments

300

What is R in OPQRST - II

What is radiation or something similar?
400

What is a pleural effusion?

What is fluid outside the lung?

400

Deoxygenated blood from the abdomen, pelvis, and lower extremities is returned to the right atrium via the

What is the inferior vena cava 

400

What do blood vessels do when damaged to prevent blood loss?

What is vasoconstriction or constrict or something similar

400

What are the three major parts of the brain?

What is Cerebrum, cerebellum and brain stem?

400

What is the primary route of exposure of vesicant agents?

What is the skin? or something similar 

400

The areas of the infant's skull that have not yet fused together are called

What is fontanels?

400

What is the second A in APGAR?

What is activity?

500

What happens to the diaphram during inhalation?

What contracting or moving downward

500

What is the ratio for two rescuer child CPR

What is 15:2

500

A buildup of blood beneath the skin that produces a

characteristic blue or black discoloration as the result of an injury.

What is ecchymosis?

500

What is the purpose of the PAT?

What is to rapidly form a general impression?

500

What immunizations and tests need to be completed on first responders at least every 10 years, according to the CDC?

What is tetanus/diptheria/pertussis booster

500

A rapid, chaotic rhythm that is completely disorganized is called

What is ventricular fibrillation?

500

What does BSI stand for?

What is Body Substance Isolation?
600

How much oxygen concentration can be delivered to a patient using a nasal cannula at 6 LPM?

Bonus, what does LPM stand for?

What is 44%


Liters per minute

600


Based on the American Heart Association's 2020 BLS Provider CPR, high-quality chest compressions should be performed at a rate of ______ for infant, child, and adult CPR.


What is 100-120 compression/minute or something similar

600

Bruising that is behind the ear that indicates a basilar skull fracture is called what.

What is Battle Sign?

600

Large amounts of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is generated when

What the cells function with adequate oxygen

600

What do EMT's and Paramedics continue their education or utilize "Continuing education (CE's)"

What is to maintain update and expand the first responders knowledge, or something like that.

600

What are small vessels that carry blood away from the heart called?

What is arterioles?

600

What is E in the DOPE pnuemonic?


Evisceration

Equipment Failure

Edema

Epligottitis

What is equipment failure?
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