Introduction
The 4 nationally recognized certification levels in EMS.
What is Emergency Medical Responder / Emergency Medical Technician / Advanced Emergency Medical Technician / Paramedic
the act of discontinuing emergency care without ensuring that another health care professional with equivalent or better training will take over
What is abandonment?
The main priority while doing anything
What is safety?
The biggest bone in the body
What is the Femur
The CPR compression to ventilation ratio for a adult
What is 30 : 2
Abbreviation: NHTSA
What is National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?
An obligation to provide care to a patient
What is Duty to Act?
Minimum standard precautions (BSI/ PPE)
what are gloves?
4 chambers of the heart
What is Right Atrium, Left Atrium, Right Ventricle, Left Ventricle
The compression to ventilation ratio for 2 rescuer CPR on an infant
15 : 2
Receiving medical orders by pre-written means such as protocols or standing orders
What is Offline Medical Direction?
Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that patient should would want treatment.
What is Implied Consent
Scene becomes unsafe
What is
*Leave*
Extra 100 points for
Call for backup
Take patient if safe to do so
The biggest organ
What is Skin
The first step in using an AED
What is turn it on?
The Medical Director issues a policy or protocol that authorizes EMTs and others to perform particular skills in certain situations
What are Standing Orders
Statutory provisions enacted by many states to protect citizens from liability for errors and omissions in giving good faith emergency medical care, unless there is wanton, gross, or willful negligence.
What is Good Samaritan Laws
Abbreviation: EMD
What is Emergency Medical Dispatcher?
The study of function. How it works
What is Physiology
Abbreviation: AED
Automated External Defibrillator
Founding year of the National Registry of EMTs (NREMT)
What is 1970
Failure to meet the standard of care a reasonable and prudent EMS provider would exercise in similar circumstances, resulting in harm to a patient
What is Negligence ?
Number of Steps in Scene Size up
What is 5 OR 6?
lower jaw, moves freely on hinge (chewing)
What is mandible
The majority of pediatric cardiac arrests are found to be
What is Respiratory based?