Med Admin
The route of administration that has the slowest rate of absorption.
What is Topical?
A substance used to treat an illness or condition.
What is medication?
The study of the structure of an organism and its parts.
What is anatomy?
A statute providing limited immunity from liability to people responding voluntarily and in good faith to the aid of an injured person outside the hospital.
What is the Good Samaritan law?
The position of reference, in which the patient stands facing you, arms at the side , with the palms of the hands facing forward.
What is the Anatomic Position?
A method of cleansing used to prevent contamination of a site from pathogens prior to performing an invasive procedure.
What is Aseptic Technique?
The specific amount of a medication to be given at specific intervals.
What is the dosing?
A solution containing an equal concentration of solutes and water on either side of a semipermeable membrane.
What is isotonic solution?
Termination of medical care for the patient without giving the patient sufficient opportunity to find another qualified healthcare professional to take over medical treatment.
What is abandonment?
On the opposite side of the body.
What is contralateral?
The critical step when obtaining IV access after obtaining blood flash.
What is dropping the approach angle to approximately 15* and advancing the catheter slightly forward?
Any conditions, especially any diseases, that render some particular line of treatment improper or undesirable.
What is contraindications?
The principal artery leaving the left side of the heart and carrying freshly oxygenated blood to the body; the largest artery in the body.
What is the aorta?
Assumption on behalf of a person unable to give consent that the person would have done so.
What is implied consent?
The forward-facing part of the hand in the anatomic position.
What is the palmar?
The amount of time that an IO can remain in place.
What is 24 hours?
The time needed for the concentration of the medication at the target tissue to reach the minimum effective level.
What is onset?
The molecules that can give up a hydrogen ion, and therefore increase the concentration of hydrogen ions in a water solution.
What is acids?
Describes what a reasonable paramedic with training would do in the same or a similar situation.
What is Standard of Care?
The name of a disease, device, procedure, or drug that is based on the person who invented, discovered, or first described it.
What is eponym?
The maximum volume that may be administered to an adult patient via IM injection.
What is 5 mL?
A circumstance that points to or shows cause, pathology, treatment, or issue of an attack of disease; that points out; that which serves as a guide or warning.
What is an indication?
The passive part of the breathing process in which the diaphragm and the intercostal muscles relax.
What is exhalation?
The four elements of negligence include Duty, Breach of Duty, Proximate Cause and:
What is harm?
An imaginary vertical line drawn from the middle of the forehead through the nose and the umbilicus (naval) to the floor.
What is the midsagittal plane?