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

Bonus:


Evan's Golden Rule of EMS

You and Your Partner go home at the End of the shift

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

Transport Priority conditions can be described as what?

2 Answers.

Load and Go

Stay and Play

300

What is SAMPLE Used for and list each criteria

Medical HX.

Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past medical HX, Last Oral Intake, Events

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

True or False: You can only get even numbers on a AUSCULTATED Blood pressure

True

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

Besides OPA/NPA, What is the BLS airway that we use in class?

King Tube

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

Bonus:

What rhythms do AED's defibrilate

V-Fib,

Pulseless V-Tach

500
Medical term used to describe high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
500

Pulse that 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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