Medical Direction
Well-Being of an EMT
Let's Move
Law
Medical Terminology
100
A physician who assumes the ultimate responsibility for medical direction

What is, Medical Director

100

PPE.  What does it stand for?

What is, Personal Protective Equipment

100

____ refers to proper use of your body to prevent injury and to facilitate lifting and moving

What is body mechanics

100

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

100

Diaphoretic

Sweaty without good reason (exertion) 

200

Standing orders that allow EMTs to give certain medications without contacting the Medical Director or another physician

What is off-line medical direction

200

At what point do we consider PPE in our PT Assessment?

What is, the Scene Size-Up

200

A device used to move a PT down a set of stairs

What is a stair chair

200

HIPPA, what does it stand for?

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

200

Dyspnea

Dys - difficulty/poor function

Pnea - breathing

Dyspnea - poor breathing

300

Lists of steps for assessment and interventions developed by Medical Direction

What are protocols

300

Another word describing the introduction of disease or infectious material

What is contamination

300

Another word for obese

What is bariatric

300
What comprises negligence (three things)?

1.) Duty to Act

2.) Failure to provide standard of care

3.) Damages where incurred, either physical or psychological (proximate causation)

300

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)

400

A policy or procedure issued that authorizes an EMT to perform particular skills in certain situations

What are standing orders

400

A type of response that occurs simultaneously to a critical incident or shortly after

What is Acute Stress Response

400

Lift used for a PT from the ground to a stretcher without a suspected spinal injury

What is, direct ground lift

400

Tort Law is what?

What is a civil offense, as opposed to a criminal offense resulting in arrest

400

RUQ, LUQ, RLQ, LLQ

What are the quadrants of the abdomen 

500
Something that can be requested at any time an EMT needs medical advice

What is on-line medical direction

500
CISM, what does it stand for?
What is, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
500

Weight rating of a bariatric gurney

What is 800 lbs or more

500

Res Ipsa Loquitur, the language and translation:

Latin for, "The thing speaks for itself"
500

Anatomical term for armpit

Axilla