EMS: How We Got Here
This level of EMS provider is trained to provide basic emergency medical care and transportation
What is an EMT?
Gloves, gowns, masks, and eye protection are collectively called this.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
This device is the primary piece of equipment used to move a patient to the ambulance.
What is an ambulance stretcher/cot?
Permission given by a competent adult before assessment or treatment is called this.
What is expressed consent?
This anatomical term means toward the head.
What is superior?
This physician provides medical oversight and establishes the clinical standards under which EMTs operate.
Who is the EMS medical director?
This practice assumes that blood and certain body fluids may be infectious.
What are standard precautions?
When lifting, EMTs should primarily use the muscles of these body parts rather than the back.
What are the legs?
An unconscious adult with a life-threatening emergency is generally treated under this form of consent.
What is implied consent?
This term means closer to the midline of the body.
What is medial?
Permission from a physician or authorized provider obtained by radio or telephone is this type of medical direction.
What is online medical direction?
Washing your hands after patient contact is one of the most effective ways of preventing this.
What is the transmission of infection?
This emergency move is commonly used to rapidly drag a patient from immediate danger while supporting the head and neck as much as possible.
What is the clothes drag?
Providing care below the accepted standard, resulting in patient harm, may constitute this.
What is negligence?
A patient lying flat on their back is in this position.
What is supine?
Standing orders and protocols that allow EMTs to provide care without contacting a physician for each intervention are this type of medical direction.
What is offline medical direction?
After a needlestick exposure, the EMT's first priorities include washing the area and doing this according to agency procedure.
What is immediately reporting/documenting the exposure?
A patient with no suspected spinal injury who is found sitting in a confined space may be moved using this device.
What is a stair chair?
An alert adult refuses transport after being informed of the potential risks. The EMT should assess decision-making capacity, explain the risks, involve appropriate medical direction, and obtain this.
hat is a documented informed refusal?
The wrist is described this way relative to the elbow.
What is distal?
An EMT reviews cardiac-arrest cases and discovers that compressions are frequently interrupted for more than 20 seconds. Using this process, the agency identifies the problem and changes training to improve patient care.
What is continuous quality improvement (CQI)?
Irritability, difficulty sleeping, emotional exhaustion, and loss of interest following repeated exposure to stressful EMS calls may indicate this occupational problem.
What is burnout or cumulative stress?
You find an unconscious patient inside a vehicle that has begun filling with smoke. Before completing a full assessment, you should perform this type of move.
What is an emergency move?
You begin caring for a patient but leave before an equally or more qualified provider assumes care. This may constitute this legal violation.
What is abandonment?
A stab wound located on the front of the right lower chest can be described using this directional term.
What is anterior?