Medications
This over-the-counter medication is administered to patients with suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome.
What is Aspirin
Under the 2025 Multiple/Severe Trauma protocol, this is the first manual method clinicians must use to control life-threatening external hemorrhage.
What is direct pressure?
The 2025 protocol update incorporates these principles directly into the BLS Adult Cardiac Arrest Algorithm.
What is High Performance CPR (HPCPR)?
For pediatric medical cardiac arrest, this age is the cutoff for following pediatric-specific algorithms rather than adult ones.
What is 13?
This form must be completed whenever a patient who has the capacity to do so decides they do not want to be treated or transported.
What is a refusal?
For an adult patient experiencing a severe allergic reaction or anaphylaxis, this is the standard IM dose of Epinephrine
What is 0.5mg
This is the primary tool used by BLS clinicians to control life-threatening external extremity hemorrhage that cannot be controlled by direct pressure.
What is a Tourniquet?
This device should be attached to a pulseless and apneic patient as soon as it becomes available.
What is an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)?
This is the standard IM dose of Epinephrine (1 mg/mL) for a pediatric patient with anaphylaxis who is less than 5 years of age or older.
What is 0.15mg?
This acronym represents the medical order form that EMS clinicians follow regarding end-of-life care and DNR status.
What is MOLST
This medication can be administered by an EMT as an inhaler (2 puffs) or nebulized (2.5 mg) for a patient with wheezing or shortness of breath.
What is Albuterol
This specific method is used by EMS clinicians to estimate the size of a burn by using the patient’s own hand to represent approximately 1% of their body surface area.
What is the Palmar Method?
During a cardiac arrest, BLS clinicians should limit breaks in chest compressions to this many seconds or less.
What is 10?
This common pediatric respiratory condition is characterized by a "barky" cough.
What is Croup?
This triage system is used for adult patients at a Multiple Casualty Incident (MCI).
What is START?
An EMT may administer this medication to an unconscious patient ONLY if the patient's blood glucose is below 70 mg/dL.
What is Oral Glucose?
For an adult trauma patient with a suspected head injury, BLS clinicians should ventilate the patient at this rate.
What is 20 breaths per minute?
A patient with a functioning VAD who is experiencing hypoperfusion should have a Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) target of at least this many mmHg.
What is 60 mmHg?
In the JumpSTART triage system, this is the first thing a clinician should check if a pediatric patient is not breathing.
What is a Pulse?
If a patient is exhibiting behavior that is a danger to themselves or others, clinicians may use this procedure to prevent harm, ideally in a face-up position.
What are Physical Restraints?
This "Leave Behind" medication protocol was moved from an optional supplemental protocol to a standard EMS treatment protocol in the 2025 update.
What is Narcan?
According to the 2025 protocols, an EMT may NOT use this type of equipment as a spinal immobilization device for a pediatric patient.
What is an infant or child car seat?
BLS clinicians must perform a minimum of this many two-minute cycles of compressions on-scene before considering transport for a medical cardiac arrest.
What is 15 cycles (30 minutes)?
When using physical restraints on a pediatric patient less than 13 years of age, EMS clinicians are restricted to using this specific number of restraint points.
What are 3-point restraints?
This score is used by clinicians to assess the severity of a stroke and determine the appropriate destination facility.
What is the LAMS (Los Angeles Motor Scale) score?