Medicolegal
The level of help expected by an EMT with similar training and circumstances
What is the Standard of Care?
The anatomic plane that divides a body into left and right halves.
What is the midsagittal plane?
The three types of muscles.
What are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles?
It’s located behind the Angle of Louis.
What is the carina?
These monitor changes in carbon dioxide and the pH of the CSF
What are chemoreceptors (specifically the Central Chemoreceptors)
A list of rules for ideal conduct.
What is a Code of Ethics?
The anatomic plane where you will hear the tricuspid heart sound.
What is the left midclavicular line?
These types are involuntary muscles.
What are smooth and cardiac muscles?
About 64% of blood is found in these.
What is the veins or venous system?
(13% arterial, 9% lungs, 7% capillaries, 7% heart)
Systemic vascular resistance can be decreased by this EMT-level medication.
What is nitroglycerin?
f/u question
More than just DNR/DNI, this provides specific treatments the patient wants to receive.
What is POLST or MOLST
Physician’s orders for life-sustaining treatment
The nerve which arises from the cervical spine and enervates the diaphragm.
What is the phrenic nerve?
It’s the only cardiac valve with only 2 leaflets.
What is the bicuspid or mitral valve?
It’s when glucose and oxygen are used to fuel the Kreb’s cycle to form cellular energy.
What is aerobic metabolism?
The dorsal respiratory group, the ventral respiratory group, the apneustic center and the pneumotaxic center are all located here.
What is the brain stem?
A wrongful act, injury, or damage.
What is a tort?
The pineal, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal glands and the ovaries, testes, and pancreas are all part of this.
What is the endocrine system?
Juices from this aid in the digestion of fats, starches, and proteins.
What is the pancreas?
Preload is the pressure generated in the left ventricle at the end of this phase of the cardiac cycle.
What is diastole? (resting)
The V/Q ratio describes this dynamic relationship.
What is the amount of air received by the alveoli and the amount of perfusion circulating in the capillaries around the alveoli?
At the scene of a Code 200, you notice a heart on the victim’s driver’s license.
What is an Organ Donor?
f/u question
70% of carbon dioxide, in the form of bicarbonate, is transported to the lungs is dissolved in this portion of the blood.
What is plasma?
(23% attached to hemoglobin, 7% as CO2 dissolved in plasma)
The wrist is an example of this type of joint.
What is a condyloid joint? (up/down, left/right, but limited rotation)
It includes the sternocleidomastoid, scalene, and pectoralis minor muscles
What are the accessory muscles of inhalation?
Either of these two influences from the autonomic nervous system will decrease the heart rate.
What are decreased sympathetic and increased parasympathetic stimulations?