You Can't Do That
An EMS System's appointed Physician, authorizing EMS Personnel to provide medical care in the field.
Who is the Medical Director?
Contact, Airborne, Foodborne, Vector-borne.
What are routes of Transmission, or exposure?
Simplest, Most Effective way of controlling disease transmission.
What is Handwashing?
During Patient Assessment, a ___________ is something the provider sees.
What is a sign?
Body System that Provides Structure.
What is the Skeletal System
You may be certified as an EMT, but you need a _______________ to practice.
What is Licensure?
Exhaustion of physical and emotional strength. Unrelieved stress.
What is Burnout?
Pocket Mask & BVM
What are Barrier Devices?
Blue color of the skin.
What is cyanosis?
Ribs and the Scapula are examples of what type of bone?
What are flat bones?
Failure to provide the same care that a person with similar training would provide.
What is Negligence?
Gradual lessoning of compassion over time.
What is Compassion Fatigue?
Level of Mask protection used with airborne transmission threats such as Tuberculosis.
What is a HEPA Respirator?
Color of skin associated with Liver Failure.
What is Jaundice?
Leaf Shaped Valve Located at the Top of Glottic Opening.
What is the Epiglottis?
Termination of Emergency Medical Care without the patient's consent.
What is Abandonment?
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression & Acceptance.
What are the stages of Grief?
Medical condition caused by the growth and spread of small harmful organisms within the body.
What is Infectious Disease?
The point at which the lungs branch into left and right Bronchi.
What is the Carina?
Small Air Sacs where the exchange of gas takes place.
What are the Alveoli?
When a Patient is unresponsive, or unable to make informed decisions on their medical care and EMS personnel assume __________ __________ to treat.
What is Implied Consent?
Dependent Lividity, Rigor Mortis
What are obvious signs of death?
A disease that is spread from one person or species to another.
What is Communicable Disease?
The part of the Brain that is divided into 4 Lobes.
What is the Cerebrum?
The Nervous System entailing "Fight or Flight."
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?