The hip bone is connected to...
What divides the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity?
What is the Diaphragm
Where does blood flow after being pumped through the aorta?
What is the Arteries?
Match the prefix/suffix with its meaning.
Brady
What is slow?
“Can you describe the pain to me?” is an example of what type of question?
What is an open-ended question
You are called to the scene of a 3-year-old boy who fell on the playground and struck his head. He is now sleepy, lethargic and has vomited once. Parents cannot be located. Under what consent are you transporting the child?
What is Implied consent.?
If you drew a line through the nose, the sternum, and the umbilicus, what line would it describe?
Midline
The muscular layer of the heart is called this
What is the Myocardium
Match the prefix/suffix with its meaning
itis
What is inflammation
During your assessment you find the patient has expiratory wheezes. You choose to administer an albuterol and ipratropium bromide nebulizer. What form of medical control are you following?
What is offline medical direction?
This radio is typically mounted in a fire truck or ambulance that allows radio communications to dispatch, the hospital, and other agencies to take place from within the vehicle.
What is a Mobile radio?
This section of the spine has 5 components
Lumbar
This is a one-way heart valve located between the left atrium and the left ventricle.
What is the Mitral valve?
Match the prefix/suffix with its meaning.
rrhea
What is flowing
You are dispatched to a person with leg trauma. When you first make visual contact with the patient, you make a quick determination that the person appears to be a male, in his 20’s, conscious, sitting upright and holding his leg. What is this called?
What is the general impression?
This best describes a paramedic’s scope of practice.
What they are licensed, authorized, and trained to do.
What is the name of the firm, opaque, white outer layer of the eye?
Sclera
This finding is most suggestive of right-sided heart failure?
What is extremity edema.
Match the root word with its meaning.
Arthr/o
What is Joint?
4 criteria that need to be met in order for negligence to be proven.
What are: Duty to act, Breach of duty, Damages, and Causation?
This is a legal document that can be subpoenaed.
What is a patient care report?
Where is the Vastus lateralis muscle located?
Outer thigh
Papillary muscles connect to which structures to help valve function?
What is Chordae tendineae?
Match the root word with its meaning.
Encephal/o
What is the brain
You are dispatched to a nursing home. Staff reports that the patient is actively coughing up blood. What PPE should be considered for you to wear?
What are eye protection, mask, gloves.
What is the most important impact of understanding and using quality, evidenced based research to the future of pre-hospital emergency medical services?
What is improve overall patient outcome?