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A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certian situations.
What is Standing Orders?
100
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is Personal Safety.
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
The dominant pacemaker of the heart is...
What is SA Node.
200
A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious.
What is Standard Precautions?
200

Unstable/uncontrolled airway, extremis or CPR, and uncontrolled hemorrhage. 

What are the reasons to divert to the nearest emergency room? 

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

O2, Vagal maneuver, Establish IV, 6mg Adenosine rapid IV push, 12 mg Adenosine rapid IV push. 

What is treatment plan for stable SVT? 

300
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent and limits, of the EMT's job.
What is Scope of Practice?
300
Medical director issues a standing order that allows EMT's to give medication in certian circumstances without speaking directly to the medical director. This is known as..
What is offline medical direction.
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
to prevent ingury when lifting a patient. two methods commonly used are...
What is power lift, and power grip.
400
A condition is a condition characterized by an unequal size of the eyes pupils. 

What is Anisocoria?

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Which of the following statments about DNR orders are false. A. A DNR order requires a signature from a physician. B. You do not actually have to see the order verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient. C. Mentally competent patients may refuse care.
What is Answer B. You do not actually have to see the order verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient.
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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

Blistering, redness, and pain. 

What is a partial thickness thermal burn?

500

Curved bony ridge that forms the top of the hip bone, or ilium and is a key part of the pelvis.

What is iliac crest?

500

Unable to follow commands, respiratory rate <10 or >29, respiratory distress, HR>SBP. 

What are physiological trauma triage criteria (American Collage of Surgeons)? 

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
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The central nervous system is compposed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.