EMS Protocols
Glucose <60 mg/dl with associated altered mental status
What is a hypoglycemic emergency?
This is the "rapid" search of an area to find viable victims during an emergency scene.
What is a Primary Search?
Receives newly oxygenated blood from your lungs
What is the left atrium?
Inflammation of the broncules
What is Bronchitis?
The medical term for reduction in the amount of hemoglobin in the red blood cells.
What is Anemia?
Administer 15 – 30 gram commercially prepared glucose gel or equivalent to the patient.
What is a hypoglycemic patient alert enough to swallow and has a protected airway?
Normal concentration of oxygen in ambient air?
What is 21%?
Carry blood away from the heart to capillaries within the tissues.
What are the arteries?
When medication is taken as needed
What does "prn" mean?
The medical term for blood pressure that is above normal (greater that 140/90).
What is Hypertension?
Patient's temperature is 40o C (>104o F) or has an altered mental status is present
what is considered hypothermic?
Oxygen, Heat, Fuel, and Chemical Reaction
What are the four elements in the fire tetrahedron?
Distributes oxygenated blood to all parts of the body through the systemic circulation
What is the aorta?
The appliance used to to bring two hoses into one common hose.
What is Siamese?
Condition of narrowing of the arteries that supply the heart. (CAD)
What is Coronary artery disease?
Unresponsiveness. Apnea. Absence of palpable pulses at carotid, radial, and femoral sites. Unresponsive pupils. Absence of heart sounds
What are the five signs of Death? (All five signs of death must be present)
This task that should be conducted by the first arriving unit to any scene.
What is scene size-up?
Carries blood to the heart from the capillaries
This tool combined with the halligan and axe is used to as forcible entry tool to remove a cylinder lock
What is the K-Tool?
Laws that protect healthcare professional for being sued for providing emergency care
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
During a Mass/Multiple Casualty situation, utilize a triage system such as “SALT”
What is Sort, Assess, Lifesaving Interventions, Treatment/ Transport?
The Knights of St. John
Where does the Maltese Cross symbol come from?
Multiple electrical impulses occur within the atria causing this chaotic electrical activity
What is atrial fibrillation?
An extremely, sturdy, and therefore safe, fixed loop. Used by emergency personnel to loop around a victim's body, under their armpits, for rescue operations.
What is The Bowline Knot?
These are the 3 types of muscle
What is skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle?