Medical Terminology
The unauthorized confinement of a person is called?
False Imprisonment
Which of the following are found in the retroperitoneal space?
Kidneys
When communicating with an older patient, you should?
Approach the patient slowly and calmly
A communicable disease
How many bones are located in the human body?
206
An Advance directive is?
A written document that specifies the care you should provide if the patient is unable to make decisions.
A person with bilateral femur fractures has?
fractured both of his or her femurs
when caring for a 5 year boy with respiratory distress you should?
allow a parent or caregiver to hold the child if the situation allows.
While caring for a Trauma patient, the EMT has blood splashed into their eyes. This is an example of what?
Exposure
Quality control in an EMS system is the ultimate responsibility of the?
Medical Director
The EMT has a legal duty to act if he or she is?
A volunteer, is on duty and is dispatched to a call
Insulin is produced by?
Pancreas
A device that receives a low frequency signal and then transmits it at a relatively higher frequency is called a?
Repeater
Protective measure that prevent health care workers from coming into contact with germs are referred to as what?
Standard Precautions
Emergency patient care occurs in progressive phases. What occurs first?
Incident recognition
An EMT would most likely be held liable for abandonment if he or she?
Did not make provisions for continued care of an injured patient.
_______ connects muscles to bones?
Tendons
When treating a potentially hositle patient, you should try to diffuse the situation by?
Speaking calmly, confidently, and slowly.
What is the second stage of response in the stress response known as the general adatptation syndrome?
React and Resistance
What animal has a sense of hearing about four times as sensitive as humans?
A dog
An 8-year-old boy was struck by a car, is unconscious, and is bleeding from the mouth. A police officer tells you that he is unable to contact the child’s parents. You should
Continue to treat the child and transport as soon as possible.
The left atrium of the heart receives ______ blood from the ______.
Oxygenated; lungs
After reciving an order from medical control over the radio, the EMT should?
repeat the order to the physician word for word.
The most effective way to preserve your own body heat when functioning in cold, wet, weather is to?
Wear at leasts 3 layers of clothing.
A patient who requires cardiac monitoring in the field would require, at a minimum, which level of EMS provider?
Paramedic