foundations of emr
What is medical direction?
The formal relation between EMS and a physician who is responsible for out of hospital care
What are you assessing in scene assessment?
Scene safety, the number of patients, the pt demographics, and putting on PPE.
What is the normal resperation rate for infants?
40 to 60 times per minute. This may slow to 30 to 40 times per minute when the baby is sleeping.
How can you differentiate between a partial and a complete obstruction?>
Partial obstructions may come with stridor, and the patient can still cough, where as non of this is possible with complete obstructions.
What is a popular acronym used in reference to stroke?
FAST
Face
Arms
speech
Time
What does duty to act mean?
what is a legal requirement to provide care while on duty.
what is proximal mean?
Closer attachment to the body
What is the AVPU scale used to determine
Level of conciousness.
A diabetic patient is conscious and confused, pale, and diaphoretic, what you suspect?
what is Hypoglycemia
What is paradoxical chest movement indicitive of?
Flail chest
what term describes leaving a patient after starting care without transferring to a provider of equal or higher level of training
what is abandonment
What is blueish skin color due to lack of oxygen?
What is cyanosis called.
What airway adjunct is best suited for an unconscious patient without a gag reflex
what is An OPA
How do you remove a stinger
By removing with a credit card and scraping in the same direction of entry of the stinger.
Explain a status seizure, or status epilepticus
Any seizure activity that lasts more than 5 minuets or multiple seizures that do not enter a poststictal phase and stay there for 5 minuets.
What should you do if a conscious adult refuses care but appears seriously ill?
What is:Allow the refusal, contact medical control and document everything carefully
what is the definition of the main function of the
respiratory system?
what is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide
what is the preferred airway maneuver for opening the airway of an unconscious trauma patient?
What is a jaw-thrust
What is hepatitis?
5 different types of viral infections of the liver.
What is pulmonary edema?
Explain GCS
measurement of neurological function, recording body movement and function, speech and function/cognitive ability, and eye opening or rousability. Scored out of 15 with a minimum score of 3.
What is the primary function of the red bloods cells>
What is to carry oxygen
you are called to a daycare for a 2 y/o in respiratory distress's has stridor , sitting upright, and drooling. what is the most likely cause?
What is Epiglottitis
you have a patient with rapid breathing, wheezing, hives and anxiety after a bee sting. What is your most immediate concern?
What is airway management
What burn depth is characterized by dry. leathery skin and absence of pain?
what is 3rd degree or full thickness burn