Patient Assessment
The very first thing an AEMT should do when approaching a scene
What is scene size up?
This is another name for Standing Orders.
What are protocols?
Term to describe abnormally slow breathing
What is bradypnea?
The acronym BLS stands for..
What is basic life support?
The is the name of the position when the stretcher's head is angled between 30 and 45 degrees.
What is semi-fowlers?
Acronym used to determine a patient's responsiveness.
What is AVPU?
This means to support or promote the needs and rights of patients.
What is patient advocacy?
The large, dome-shaped muscle that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity; primary muscle for respiration
What is the diaphragm?
Medical term used to describe a heart rate that exceeds a normal resting rate.
What is tachycardia?
This is one of the most important characteristics for a clinical provider.
What is empathy?
After determining a patient's responsiveness, this is the first thing that you should check.
What is an airway?
Who is Dr. Nancy Caroline?
Bluish-gray color indicative of poor circulatory perfusion
What is cyanosis?
A law that provides basic legal protection for those who assist a person who is injured or in danger.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
This is what the "P" stands for in the SOAP format of charting.
What is plan?
Three things that should be checked before and after splinting and/or back boarding
What is CMS/PMS?
This governmental administration oversees EMS.
What is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?
May be used when an oropharyngeal airway causes a gag reflex
What is a nasopharyngeal airway?
The stiffening of muscles following death.
What is Rigor Mortis?
Four things you need to establish to sue for negligence.
This is how often an unstable and stable patient should be reassessed (after completing your secondary assessment).
What is every 5 minutes (unstable) and every 15 minutes (stable)?
The occurs during or immediately after exposure to a stressful incident.
What is an acute stress reaction?
You and your partner Gene respond to a report of a car vs. pedestrian. An elderly man has been struck by a car and is now on the sidewalk lying supine. Gene takes C-spine and you begin an initial assessment noticing that the man's breathing is fast and very shallow. He does not respond to you and also has some liquid or vomit running from his mouth. Which intervention should be done first?
A. Put a C-collar on him and assist ventilations with a BVM and high flow O2
B. Measure and insert an oropharyngeal airway
C. Suction his mouth
D. Do a head tilt chin lift to open his airway
What is C?
Term to describe a... -seizure that lasts more than ten minutes -3 or more seizures in an hour -seizure (or series of seizures) w/o period of full orientation
What is Status Epilepticus?
These are two types of medical direction
What is off-line (prospective), on-line (direct), and CQI (retrospective)?