EMS Ops
Best way to prevent disease transmission
What hand washing?
Two man CPR compression/ventilation ratio
What is 15/2?
Percentage of water in body composition in ol’;deer adults
What is 45%?
Vitamin that aids in absorption of calcium in the intestines
What is vitamin D?
Used to evaluate a trauma patient in a tactical setting
What is MARCH?
Unaccompanied children treated by EMS using this type of consent
What is implied?
Route of medication administration if not enteral
What is parenteral?
Osmotic state of noraml saline
What is isotonic?
Storage location for the body’s magnesium supply
What are the bones?
Can mute the immune system if consistently high
What is cortisol?
Number one leading cause of death for persons age 1-44
What is unintentional injuries/accidents?
term in Latin for “in place of the parent”
What is in loco parentis?
Term used for a negatively charged ion
What is anion?
Most rapid mechanism compensatory mechanism for pH imbalance
What is respiratory?
medical term used for someone has allergic tendencies
What is atopic?
Procedure used to reduce infection in patients and health care personnel
Who are standard precautions?
Characterized by wheezing and widespread vasodilation
What is anaphylactic shock?
Major intracellular cation
What is a potassuim?
Can induce cellular hypoxia by blocking oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria preventing oxygen metabolism in the cell
What is cyanide?
term used to refer to the damage or suffering caused by the disease either in an individual or in the population as a whole
What is morbidity?
Term for person invaded by pathogen
What is host?
Respiration greater than 20
What is tachypenic?
Medical term for abnormal accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity
What is ascities?
Inactiive enzyme of the pancreas
What is kallikrein?
Most common immunoglobulin
What is IgG?