Key Terms
Define Jump Kit
A bag or box containing equipment used by the emergency medical responder when responding to a medical emergency; includes items such as resuscitation masks and airway adjuncts, disposable latex-free gloves, blood pressure cuffs and bandages.
What is Phase 1 called
preparation for an emergency call
What’s the best transportation to a medical facility for a critical patient?
Helicopter
Describe safety issues during response
All personnel must be property seated and buckled when driving to an emergency. All equipment in the ambulance must be secured as well so that it doesn't go flying around the ambulance that could cause injured.
What’s the term when EMS driver feels sleepy especially on long transports?
Fatigue
A term from military jargon used to describe any area where an aircraft, such as an air medical helicopter, can land safely.
Landing Zone
What is Phase 2: dispatch do?
obtaining the caller’s location and information critical to dispatching the appropriate personnel and equipment
When’s a good time to request an air medical transportation?
If the ambulance takes more than 30 mins
Define equipment preparedness
Your PPE must be in full working condition for you to do your job effectively. This means that you must have gloves, helmet, steel-tipped boots protective clothing, eyep protection, hearing protection, portable radio and body armor if necessary.
Say one of the 360-degree assessment terms
Downed electrical lines
leaking fuel or fluids
smoke or fire
broken glass
trapped or elected patients
MOI/nature of illness
patient care in ambulance
securing equipment
What’s an example of audible warning devices
sirens and air horns.
No, it’s “arrival at the receiving facility”
Systolic blood pressure of less than 90 mmHg.
All penetrating injuries to the head, neck and torso.
Crushed or mangled extremities.
Paralysis
Chest wall instability.
Glasgow Coma Scale less than 13.
Ejection from a motor vehicle.
Car vs. pedestrian, thrown or run over.
Motorcycle crash over 20 mph.
Two or more proximal long-bone fractures.
Do EMS drivers obey all traffic laws?
yes, they should
Say one of the high risk situations
Intersections
highway access
speed considerations
inclement weather
aggressive drivers
unpaved roads
fatigue
What’s a telecommunicator who has received special training for triaging a request for medical service and allocating appropriate resources to the scene of an incident, and for providing pre arrival medical instructions to patients or bystanders before more advanced medical personnel arrive called
Emergency medical dispatcher
Describe what you would be doing during phase 5
Transferring the patient to the ambulance
Define space and load
The amount to space in a helicopter depends on the type of helicopter as well as its take off and landing. Responders must take into account how many patients need transport, how many responders need to accompany the patient, essential life saving equipment, fuel and load.
What’s the purpose of audible warning devices
prepared for an emergency means that you can depend on your equipment
what’s the first ting you do when you approach a dangerous scene?
Scan the area for potential dangers
Define Trauma alert criteria
An assessment system used by emergency medical services (EMS) providers to rapidly identifying those patients determined to have sustained severe injuries that warrant immediate evacuation for specialized medical treatment; based on several factors including status of airway, breathing and circulation , as well as Glasgow Coma Scale score, certain types of injuries present and patients age; separate criteria for pediatrics and adult patients.
What is phase 8 and 9 called
Clear Medical Facility and Available for Next Emergency Call
What’s another term for helicopter
Rotorcraft
What’s the term for ”being prepared for an emergency means that you can depend on your equipment”
Apparatus preparedness
Describe MOI/nature or illness
As your approaching the patient consider the MOI. Look around the scene for clues as to what might have happened. Consider the force of the injury so that you can think about the possible injuries. If a patient is unconscious considering the MOI may be the only way to determine what happened.