What is, Medical Director
PPE. What does it stand for?
What is, Personal Protective Equipment
____ refers to proper use of your body to prevent injury and to facilitate lifting and moving
What is body mechanics
What are a set of laws developed in all states to provide immunity for those trying to help in an emergency
What are the Good Samaritan Laws
Diaphoretic
Sweaty without good reason (exertion)
Standing orders that allow EMTs to give certain medications without contacting the Medical Director or another physician
What is off-line medical direction
At what point do we consider PPE in our PT Assessment?
What is, the Scene Size-Up
A device used to move a PT down a set of stairs
What is a stair chair
HIPPA, what does it stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Dyspnea
Dys - difficulty/poor function
Pnea - breathing
Dyspnea - poor breathing
Lists of steps for assessment and interventions developed by Medical Direction
What are protocols
Another word describing the introduction of disease or infectious material
What is contamination
Another word for obese
What is bariatric
1.) Duty to Act
2.) Failure to provide standard of care
3.) Damages where incurred, either physical or psychological (proximate causation)
Sitting position, with head slightly raised, legs flat or bent. Common position for transport on a gurney
Fowler's position (sitting upright) Semi-Fowler's position (semi-upright, or laid back slightly)
A policy or procedure issued that authorizes an EMT to perform particular skills in certain situations
What are standing orders
A type of response that occurs simultaneously to a critical incident or shortly after
What is Acute Stress Response
Lift used for a PT from the ground to a stretcher without a suspected spinal injury
What is, direct ground lift
Tort Law is what?
What is a civil offense, as opposed to a criminal offense resulting in arrest
RUQ, LUQ, RLQ, LLQ
What are the quadrants of the abdomen
What is on-line medical direction
Weight rating of a bariatric gurney
What is 800 lbs or more
Res Ipsa Loquitur, the language and translation:
Anatomical term for armpit
Axilla