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A device that can specializes in moving a patient up or down stairs
What is a stair chair?
The number one way that EMTs are injured in the field
What is improper lifting?
An example of a patient-carrying device
Longboards, stretchers, stair-chairs, scoop stretchers. Anything that involves carrying the patient a longer amount of time.
The term Bariatrics
Is a term used for obese patients.
These are the four lobes of the brain.
Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, Occipital
This long piece of plastic is used to transport a patient with a spine injury.
What is a backboard?
This move should be done only when there is a very limited amount of time
What is the emergency move?
Proper use of the body to perform physical tasks safely
Body Mechanics
This is what the "c" in c-collar stands for.
Cervical
This is what the Glasgow Coma Scale measures.
What is Level of Consciousness?
This device works to keep a patients neck from bending or twisting.
What is a c-collar?
The most appropriate time or circumstance to use a long backboard on a patient.
What is a head, neck, or spine emergency where the patient requires cervical stabilization?
Helps an unconscious patient maintain an open airway.
What is the recovery postion.
The two divisions of the nervous system
What is the CNS (central nervous system) and the PNS (peripheral nervous system)?
The three main parts of the brain.
Cerebrum, Cerebellum, Brain Stem
This device works together with the head immobilizer and holds the patient's entire body firmly to the backboard.
What are the spider straps?
A lift technique that uses the legs to generate most of the strength needed for a lift.
What is the "Power lift technique"
What is the two-person extremity carry.
Unable to produce or understand speech
What is Aphasia?
Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) has the same characteristics as this other conditions but a TIA is only temporary.
What is a stroke?
This device can lift patients with minimal movement, it breaks apart and is reassembled around the patient.
What is a Scoop Stretcher?
How should the rescuer stand when performing the two-person seat carry technique?
Used to move a patient onto a long backboard.
What is log roll.
A generalized (tonic-clonic) seizure is characterized by these features.
Severe twitching of all the body's muscles
The difference between an ischemic stroke and a hemorrhagic stroke.
Ischemic strokes are blockages and hemorrhagic is a bleed or bursting of a vessel.