Consists of the nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx, and larynx.
What is the upper airway?
-itis
What is inflammation?
The best place to park the ambulance
What is uphill and upwind?
Any information about health status, provision of healthcare, or payment for health care the can be linked to an individual.
What is Protected Health Information?
The most important section of the Patient Care Report (PCR).
What is a narrative?
Is the process of gas exchange in the lungs.
What is respiration?
Prefix that means difficult, painful, abnormal.
What is Dys-?
This phase of the ambulance call is where you check your rig, equipment, and supplies.
An individual's responsibility to provide patient care.
What is Duty to Act?
May develop after a person has experienced a psychologically distressing event.
What is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
The superior edge of this forms a landmark called the sternal notch.
What is the manubrium?
PEEP
What is positive end expiratory pressure?
This phase of the ambulance call where you provide a bedside report to the receiving ER Physician or RN taking over care for the patient.
What is the delivery phase?
A common law principle that when you reasonably help another person, you should not be liable for errors and omission that are in giving good-faith emergency care.
What is the Good Samaritan law?
What is the Star of Life?
The name of the gland that secretes both insulin and glucagon.
The Islet of Langerhans
-phasia
What is pertaining to speech?
During the 1700s, Napoleon Bonaparte commissioned the development of these to remove injured personnel from the battlefield.
What are horse-drawn ambulances/carts?
What is Negligence?
Entity that has been collecting prehospital care information for research purposes since the early 1970's.
What is NEMSIS?
The part of the nervous system that regulates or controls our voluntary activities.
What is the somatic (voluntary) nervous system?
The root "Leuko"
What is the color white?
Document that describes ambulances which are authorized to display the "Star of Life" symbol.
What is the KKK-A-1822 F SPECS?
Is a written document that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient, should he or she become unable to make decisions.
What is an advanced directive?
Is a way for team members to work together with the team leader to develop and maintain a shared understanding of the emergency situation.
What is Crew Resource Management (CRM)?