Vocabulary
Primary Survey
Secondary Survey
Vital Signs
Scene Size-Up
100
Mnemonic used to remember physical findings identified during the head-to-toe survey
What is DCAP BTLS?
100
How skin should present in a normal, healthy patient
What is pink, warm and dry
100
Term referring to whether anything makes the patients pain better or worse
What is provocation?
100
Normal pulse rate for an adult?
What is 60-100 beats per minute?
100
Manner in which an injury was incurred
What is mechanism of injury?
200
Membrane that lines the interior surface of the eyelids and covers the anterior surface of the sclera of the eye
What is conjunctiva?
200
Mnemonic used to assess patients level of consciousness
What is AVPU?
200
Asking the patient to rate their pain on a scale of 1-10
What is severity?
200
Mnemonic used for assessing the patients eyes
What is PEARL?
200

Happens before patient contact. 5 questions & what you wear.

What is scene size-up?

300
In assessment of the patient's chief complaint, the spread of pain from one area of the body to another
What is radiation?
300

Thing these patients have in common - Chest pain, shock, respiratory failure, severe bleeding

What are priority patients?

300
Mnemonic positioned in the lower left hand side of the assessment sheet
What are SAMPLE and OPQRST?
300
Age a child needs to be in order to take their blood pressure
What is 3?
300
Protective gear worn by an EMT
What is body substance isolation?
400

Artery passing just behind the ankle bone, where it is palpable between the medial malleolus and the Achilles tendon.

What is the posterior tibial?

400
This is the step that follows the "level of consciousness" during the primary survey
What is Chief Complaint?
400
When and how a patient's complaint first ocurred.
What is onset?
400
locates and treats imminent life threats

What is a primary assessment?

400
You arrive at the scene of a HAZMAT incident. You should observe from a distance, ________ and ___________
What is uphill and upwind?
500
The lining of the mouth
What is oral mucosa?
500

yellowed tint to the skin indicating liver failure

What is jaundice?

500
Medical term used to describe high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
500
This can be found in the groove between the trachea and neck muscle
What is carotid pulse?
500
The greatest and most common hazard encountered by EMT's
What is traffic surrounding MVC's?
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