Code 3 Brain Freeze
This system links people, dispatch, responders, transport, and hospitals to provide emergency care.
What is the EMS system?
This is the EMR’s first priority before approaching any patient.
What is scene safety?
This lifting principle means keeping the patient or object close to your body.
What is proper body mechanics?
This manual maneuver opens the airway of a patient without suspected spinal injury.
What is the head-tilt, chin-lift?
This abbreviation stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
What is CPR?
This physician is ultimately responsible for EMR medical direction, protocols, and quality of patient care.
Who is the medical director?
These precautions reduce exposure to blood and body fluids during emergency care.
What are standard precautions?
This move is used when a patient must be moved quickly because the scene is unsafe.
What is an emergency move?
This airway maneuver is preferred when spinal injury is suspected.
What is the jaw-thrust maneuver?
This device analyzes heart rhythm and may deliver a shock during sudden cardiac arrest.
What is an AED?
This term describes the care an EMR is legally allowed and expected to provide.
What is scope of practice?
This body system includes the heart, blood, and blood vessels.
What is the cardiovascular system?
This communication method repeats key information back to confirm it was heard correctly.
What is closed-loop communication?
This device helps deliver ventilations to a patient who is not breathing adequately.
What is a bag-valve-mask device?
This is the first action after confirming an adult patient is unresponsive and not breathing normally.
What is activate emergency response and begin CPR?
This type of consent is assumed when a patient is unconscious or unable to make decisions during a true emergency.
What is implied consent?
This term means the study of how disease or injury changes normal body function.
What is pathophysiology?
This report gives incoming EMS providers a quick summary of the patient’s condition and care already provided.
What is a handoff report?
This oxygen delivery device provides high-concentration oxygen to a breathing patient.
What is a nonrebreather mask?
These compressions should be hard, fast, and allow full chest recoil.
What are high-quality chest compressions?
This legal concept means failing to provide the expected standard of care, resulting in harm to the patient.
What is negligence?
This position is often used for a patient who is unresponsive but breathing and has no suspected spinal injury.
What is the recovery position?
This documentation principle means recording only what you saw, heard, assessed, and did—not personal opinions.
What is objective documentation?
This sign may indicate inadequate oxygenation and appears as bluish discoloration of the skin, lips, or nail beds.
What is cyanosis?
This concept describes the sequence of actions that improves survival from sudden cardiac arrest.
What is the chain of survival?