Medical Terminology
Movement of a limb away from the body?
What is Abduction?
A set of values in society that differentiates right from wrong.
What is Ethics?
A type of protocol that is a written document signed by the EMS system's medical director that outlines specific directions, permissions, and sometimes prohibitions regarding patient care that is rendered prior to contacting medical control
What is a standing order?
People who are 1 month to 1 year of age
What are infants?
People who are 18 to 40 years of age
What are early adults?
An imaginary plane that cuts the body into front and back portions
What is the coronal Plane?
What a state permits a paramedic practicing under a license
what is scope of practice?
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system
What is continuous quality improvement or CQI?
DAILY DOUBLE!
An infant reflex that occurs when something touches an infant's cheek, and the infant instinctively turns his or her head toward the touch
What is the rooting reflex?
How a person feels about himself or herself, and how a person feels about how he or she fits in with peers
What is self-esteem?
The name of a disease, device, procedure, or drug that is based on the person who invented, discovered, or first described it.
What is an Eponym?
A type of informed consent that occurs when the patient does something, either through word or by taking some sort of action, that demonstrates permission to provide care.
What is expressed consent?
A type of research in which a single case is investigated and documented over a period of time
What is a case study?
Trauma resulting from increased pressure ; for example to much pressure in the lungs
What is barotrauma?
A type of reasoning in which a child looks for approval from peers and society
What is Conventional Reasoning?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Also used to describe the anterior surface of the body
What is Ventral?
1. Obvious or suspected homicide.
2. obvious or suspected suicide.
3. Any other violent or sudden, unexpected death.
4. Death of a prison inmate.
What are types of coroner of medical examiner cases?
Medical direction given through a set of protocols, policies, and/or standards
What is off-line medical control?
An infant's initial response to a situational crisis; characterized by loud crying
What is the protest phase?
A disorder in which cholesterol and calcium build up inside the walls of the blood vessels, forming plaque, which eventually leads to partial or complete blockage of blood flow
What is atherosclerosis?
An imaginary line that runs through the middle of the forehead, through the nose and umbilicus to the floor
What is the midsagittal plane?
Developed in 1986 to combat the practice of "patient dumping" and pays particular attention to the practice of sending women in labor to distant hospitals.
What is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act or EMTALA
The method of not giving the specifics of a project to the people participating in a research or study
What is blinding?
Areas where the infant's skull has not fused together; usually disappear at approximately 18 months of age; also called soft spots
What are fontanelles?
The basic filtering units in the kidneys
What are Nephrons?