Cut it Out...
Describe tidal volume?
What is the movement of air in and out of the lungs in a single breath.
Under which type of medical direction does standing orders and protocols fall under?
What is offline medical direction
Name Medications that can be given for difficulty breathing?
What is albuterol, Atrovent, epi, and oxygen
Describe 4 routes by which poison can enter the body?
What is ingestion, inhalation, injection, and absoprtion
What term describes parts of the body that lay farther from the midline?
What is lateral?
A patient has been given a red triage tag... this means??
What is a serious injury that requires fast treatment and transport to the hospital.
What kind of seizure occurs in children that is caused by a high fever?
What is a febrile seizure?
Septic shock is typically caused by what...
What is an infection.
What is Alert, Verbal Stimuli, Painful Stimuli, and Unresponsive.
What route of administration involves placing a medication underneath a patient's tongue?
What is sublingual.
What is epiglottitis.
Describe the different types of consent?
What is informed, implied, and expressed consent
A patient has been given a yellow triage tag... what does this mean?
What is a medium priority patient. Not immediate transport but not delayed.
Where on a pediatrics body should we place a towel/blankets to help improve alignment with airway managment?
What is padding underneath the shoulders.
Describe a hemorrhagic stroke?
What is a blood vessel rupturing and bleeding within the brain.
What federal act passed in 1996 limits the availability of patient's health information?
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Most important concept to know when giving Aspirin to a patient with chest pain?
What is ensuring the patient can follow directions and has an intact gag reflex.
What is Neurogenic Shock, Obstructive Shock, Obstructive, Cardiogenic, Subsets: Septic, Anaphylactic, and Hypovolemic
Breakdown the mnemonic OPQRST?
What is onset, provoke, quality, radiation, scale/severity, time.
What is the most important concept to remember during a MCI event?
What is personal safety?
Depressed fontanelles are often indicative of what kind of pediatric illness?
What is dehydration.
Diaphragm and intercostal muscles relaxing is describing what phase of the respiratory cycle?
What is the exhalation phase.
Describe the legal term that states EMTs have the responsibility to provide care another person?
What is the duty to act.
The dosage of an adult and pediatric auto-injector EPI?
What is adult 0.3mg and peds 0.15mg.
During anaphylaxis what vital sign decreases significantly but most likely not during a local allergic reaction? (Hint) this occurs if no medical intervention occurs
What is the blood pressure (Hypotension).
Occipital, Parietal, and Frontal are referred to which part of the body?
What is the cranium
What is 3 or more patients.
Describe the Pediatric Assessment Triangle? What makes this type of assessment unique?
What is Work of breathing, Circulation, and Appearance. It's unique in the fact that you haven't touched the patient yet.
Describe perfusion?
What is the delivery of essential products and nutrients to the cell for use in the body.
Under what conditions can EMS transport a minor patient without the express consent of the parent or guardian?
What is a life-threatening injury or illness.
Describe a side effect - how does this impact the patient?
What is a reaction or anticipated reaction the patient demonstrates following a medication administration.
Atropine is classified as what kind of toxidrome?
What is anticholinergic.
Describe the anatomical position?
What is standing upright with the hands by patient's side, with their palms facing forward
Describe primary benefit of triage?
What is determining the order in which patients will receive medical care and transport.
6 Month old with congenital heart defect, airway patent, but apneic and heart rate of 24 beats/min...what do you do next?
What is start CPR and ventilations.
Injury to the diaphragm means - what in regard to respiratory emergencies?
What is losing the major portion of the patient's ability to breathe.
Negligence is proven through what 4 concepts?
What is duty to act, breach of duty, causation, and real/perceived damages.
How does nitroglycerin relieve the squeezing or crushing pain of angina?
What is Nitroglycerin dilating the arteries to increase the oxygen supply to the heart muscle.
Name signs and symptoms that you'd likely see with a patient that took a stimulant.
What is tachycardia, hypertension, anxiety, sweating, dilated pupils.
The sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves arise from what part of the nervous system?
What is the autonomic nervous system.
Who determines the order in which patients are transported to various hospitals during an MCI?
What is the transport unit supervisor.
Describe the difference between croup and epiglottitis?
Croup: Virus, seal-bark, stridor, no drool Epiglottitis: Bacteria, drooling, stridor
Your patient has fallen down the stairs with gurgling respirations, you have already have a partner maintaining c-spine restrictions; what is your next step?
What is suctioning out and clearing their airway.
Under what conditions can a minor (Under 18) refuse transport?
What is emancipated minor, military member, or pregnant (has a child)
Describe what an antagonist medication does?
What is blocking receptor sites and prevents other chemicals from attaching to them
Name signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose?
What is respiratory depression, pinpoint pupils, unconscious, depressed level of LOC
From most superior to inferior, describe the sections of the spinal column
What is cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.
Name the Triage System that is adopted by the National Standard for MCI Triage?
What is SALT? Sort, Assess, Life-Saving Interventions, Treatment/Transport
Compared to an adult airway, what structure takes up proportionately more space in the mouth of a pediatric patient?
What is the tongue.
Describe an epidural hematoma?
What is a pocket of arterial blood collected between the skull and the dura mater.
Considerations of restraining a combative pateint?
What is a min of 5 EMS personnel, one are up, one arm down, never place patient prone, constant airway management, consider ALS
What are the 9 Rights of medication Administration
What is Right: Patient, Route, Dose, Indication/Medication, Education, Response, Documentation, Time, Right to Refuse
Name the different types of toxidromes?
What are stimulants, cholinergic, anticholinergic, opioids, sedative/hypnotics
Involuntary and smooth muscle are found in the walls of what structures?
What are blood vessels and intestines.
Give the name of the primary pacemaker in the hear?
What is the sinoatrial node? (SA Node)
Describe JumpStart. How does this differ from SALT
What is methodical way to sort pediatric patients on a MCI scene. JumpStart adds additional steps for peds patient's that aren't breathing but have a pulse.