Introduction to EMS
Med/Legal
Medical Terminology
A&P
Hard to say
100
List of steps, such as assessments and interventions, to be taken in different situations, and are developed by the EMS system.
What are protocols?
100
Care that would be expected to be provided by an EMT with similar training when caring for a patient in a similar situation.
What is standard of care?
100
They carry oxygen to, and carbon dioxide away from the cells.
What is Red blood cell, erythrocytes?
100
Skeletal Cardiac Smooth
What are the 3 types of muscle?
100
The area directly posterior to the nose.
What is the nasopharynx?
200
A process of continuous self-review with the purpose of identifying and correcting aspects of the system that require improvement.
What is Quality improvement?
200
leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or higher medical training.
What is Abandonment?
200
the supply of oxygen to, and removal of wastes from, the cells and tissues of the body as a result of the flow of blood through the capillaries.
What is perfusion?
200
Inferior portion of the sternum.
What is the xiphoid process?
200
Most common rhythm a cardiac arrest patient will be found in, IF assessed within 5 minutes.
What is Ventricular Fibrillation (VF)
300

EMR EMT AEMT Paramedic

What the NREMT levels of EMS training.

300
Duty Breech of Duty Damages Proximate Cause
What are the 4 things needed to prove negligence?
300
Place in which a pulse is assessed in an infant.
What is the brachial artery?
300

What is the number of vertebre in each of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spinal divisions?

What is 7, 12, 5

300
the smallest kind of vein.
What is a venule?
400
A policy or protocol issued by the Medical Director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certain situations.
What are standing orders?
400
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the extent and limitations of the EMT's job.
What is Scope of practice?
400
Position in which patient is supine with legs elevated.
What is Trendelenburg?
400
Two lower chambers of the heart.
What is the ventricles?
400

What are respiratory rates that would require positive pressure ventilation?

<8 or >30 breaths per minute. 

500

Who authorizes the EMT's in the service to provide medical care in the field 

Medical director

500
Instructions written in advance that have specific details about the care to be/not to be performed in a life and death situation.
What are Advance Directives?
500
Medical term used to describe a blood pressure cuff.
What is sphygmomanometer?
500

Lies on the top of the foot, lateral to the large tendon of the big toe.

What is pedal pulse?

500

This airway adjunct is inserted into the mouth and sits on top of the epiglottis. 

Supraglottic airway

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