Emergency Medical Technician
This term refers to a pulse that feels weak and thin.
What is a thready pulse?
This is a way in which neurons communicate.
What is Action Potential?
This is an example of trace evidence.
What type of evidence are fibers or debris from clothing?
This is the medical term for swelling caused by fluid buildup after an injury.
What is edema?
This medical term means inflammation of the tonsils.
What is tonsillitis?
This term describes the technique for determining a blood pressure without using a stethoscope or blood pressure monitor.
What is palpation?
These systems constitute the PNS.
What is the somantic and sensory systems?
This classified as an elliptical bloodstain.
Blood drops that strike a target at an angle less than 90o will create what type of bloodstain?
This condition happens when the body loses more fluids than it takes in and can lead to fatigue, dizziness, and poor performance.
What is dehydration?
This describes the surgical removal of the bladder.
What is cholecystectomy?
This is the EMT's next step when assessing a 42-year old male victim and the victim’s face turns blue, the victim is not breathing, and no pulse is felt.
When to begin CPR until AED arrives?
These are the three types of neurons.
What do sensory, motor, and somantic refer to?
This is needed in an STR analysis to confirm the identity of a victim.
Why is DNA from any relative useful in DNA analysis?
This is the cause of an injury or disease.
What is etiology?
What prefix is used to refer to the kidney?
This is the pulse an EMT should check when assessing the pulse of a 10-year-old responsive patient with dyspnea.
What is the carotid pulse?
Adrenal and Thyroid glands.
What are examples of endocrine glands?
This term refers to the rules promulgated in England in 1843 in relation to a cognitive test of insanity.
What are the McNaughten rules?
This type of injury develops over time from repeated stress rather than a single traumatic event.
What is a chronic injury?
This term means abnormally low levels of potassium in the blood.
What is hypokalemia?
This is the most likely cause for the following event: while walking on a treadmill at the health club, a 40-year-old woman becomes light-headed and complains of nausea and pain in the jaw, neck, and arm.
What is a heart attack?
Acetylcholine and Noradrenaline.
What are examples of neurotransmitters?
Examples of this are: angle is greater than 90°, sacrum tilted back, and ilia spread wide.
What are defining features of the female pelvis?
This on-the-field assessment focuses first on airway, breathing, circulation, and severe bleeding before any other injuries are evaluated.
What is primary survey?
This describes painful swallowing often seen in throat infections.