The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
This is what you need to engage to provide water to the attack crew before you are hooked to a hydrant, Frank.
What is tank to pump?
This is the most important medication that prehospital providers can give to an ACS patient.
What is Aspirin?
The pt/caller's name DOES NOT go in this spot of the report.
What is the location tab?
This is the maximum amount of time that compressions should be interrupted.
What is 10 seconds?
This is the long thin blue rod that medics use to help facilitate intubation.
What is a Bougie?
This type of construction is reinforced concrete, protected steel (steel coated in fire-resistant material) and designed to withstand high heat for hours, preventing collapse; challenging for ventilation due to tough windows/roofs.
What is Type I:Fire resistive
Hospitals, High-rise buildings, and modern commercial buildings are examples of Type I construction.
This medication, given in conjunction with albuterol, is an anticholinergic drug used in the control of symptoms related to bronchospasm in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
What is Ipratropium/Atrovent?
You get this from the hospital and it is required for every transport.
What is a face sheet?
The name of the straight intubation blade is this.
What is the Miller blade?
This is what we call the various wood or synthetic material used to stabilize vehicles.
What is cribbing?
This is a long narrow ventilation hole that acts as a fire break on the roof of a structure that is being attacked by fire.
What is a trench cut?
Step 1 - 10'x10' ventilation hole needs to be cut over the fire to ventilate heat and smoke.Step
2 - Chose a spot around 20' away from the vent hole to start the trench cut.
Step -3 Starting from the upwind side, with the crews located between the trench and the means of egress, make two straight cuts approximately three feet wide, from one wall completely to the opposite wall of the building. Make the relief cuts at approximately every five feet down the length of the trench cut. When ready, the roof team shall open up the trench, and punch out the ceiling below the cut area, and exit the roof right after.
This is the maximum dosage of Fentanyl for a pt. over 65 years of age.
What is 100 mcg?
25 mcg-50 mcg every 15 minutes.
Even if responding/transporting no lights and sirens, this is what the response/transport mode should be marked in the report.
What is emergent?
This is what is used to determine the correct size AirQ3.
What is ideal body weight?
This is the part of your airway where the right and left main bronchus split.
What is the Carina?
This is a vertical wall that varies in height between 2-4 feet and is used to support the rafters on the roof. This wall assists in creating a more occupiable space within the half story (typically attic space). This effectively creates a void space, often used as storage, between the inside of it and the eaves of the rafters.
What is a knee wall?
The large void space that the knee wall creates allows for a horizontal spread of flames and super-heated smoke.
Hydrocodone, Hydromorphone, Buprenorphine, and Thebaine all belong to this class.
What are Opioids?
These also include Fentanyl, Oxycodone, Morphine, Opium, Heroin, and Codeine, but that would have been too easy.
This is the most important part of the report.
What is the narrative?
What is the first thing that should be put on the pt in cardiac arrest?
What are fast patches?
This is the chemical decomposition of organic material caused by heat, leading to flammable gases.
This type of roof is most easily recognized by the characteristic round "half-circle" or arched shape that it gives the roof of a structure. It is also responsible for multiple Firefighter deaths and injuries.
What is the Bowstring Truss Roof?
The void space created by a bowstring truss can allow heat, smoke and fire conditions to go undetected causing a false sense of security for firefighters operating beneath it. Because more surface area is exposed to flames than with standard construction, collapse can take place in a much shorter time frame.
Constrictive Pericarditis, Pericardial Tamponade, Restrictive cardiomyopathy, severe anemia, and shock are all contraindications for this medication.
What is Nitro?
This section of the signatures tab is used if the pt. can't sign the report for themselves. (The number)
What is Section III?
We do not put AED patches on a conscious person because the AED can advise you to shock this rhythm.
What is Ventricular Tachycardia with a pulse.
This is the flowing of tears.
What is Lacrimation?
SLUDGEM is a medical mnemonic for symptoms of nerve agent or organophosphate poisoning, standing for Salivation, Lacrimation (tearing), Urination, Defecation, Gastrointestinal upset (cramps/diarrhea), Emesis (vomiting), and Miosis (pupil constriction)