Terminology 1
Patient Position
Medical/Legal
Human Body
Signs
100

In the presence of oxygen

What is Aerobic?

100

Supine position with head elevated 45 or greater.

What is Fowlers position?

100
leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
What is Abandonment.
100
Name the five divisions of the spine.
What is servical thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.
100

A sound often produced by the tongue partially obstructing the upper airway.

                   

What is snoring?

200

Standing erect, facing examiner, arms at side, palms forward

What is the anatomic position?

200

Lying flat on their backs?

What is Supine?

200
The consent it is presumed a patient or patients parent would give if they could such as for an unconscioius patient or a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed.
What is implied consent.
200
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
200

A high‑pitched sound heard on inhalation produced by obstruction of upper airway, similar to crowing.

What is stridor?

300

Protective protein substance formed in the body as a result of contact with an antigen

What is an anitibody?

300

The voluntary or involuntary contraction of abdominal muscles in response to pain or irritation.


What is Guarding?

300
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation i which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is Negligence.
300
List the organs in the upper left quadrant
What is liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney, and colon.
300

High‑pitched whistling sound caused by air moving through a narrowed airway; generally occurs in a small, lower airway.


What is Wheezing?

400

Passive movement of molecules (solutes) from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration, so as to equally distribute the solutes throughout an available space.


What is diffusion?

400

Positioning the patient on the left side to avoid aspiration.

What is left lateral recumbent or the recovery position?

400
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent, and lmits of the EMT's job
What is scope of practice.
400
List the organs located in the right upper quadrant.
What is liver, right kidney, colon, pancreas, and gall bladder.
400

Lung sound, harsher than rales, which originates from fluid collected in the larger airways, or from a partially obstructing object in the bronchus.

What is Rhonchi?

500

Difficult or labored breathing.

What is Dyspnea?

500

Position of being supine with head elevated less than 45.

What is Semi Fowlers?

500
A federal law protecting the privacy of the patients specific health care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed
What is HIPPA.
500
List in order the number of vertebrae in order of the spinal column.
What is cervical 7 thoracic 12 lumbar 5 sacral 5 coccyx 4
500

Assessment of oxygen saturation level measured by non-invasive sensor placed over capillary blood vessel.


What is Pulse Oximetry?