Hodge Podge
EMT in the Field
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Assessment
Terminology
100

Represented by the top number of the blood pressure

What is ventricular contraction?

100

Most common result of poorly planned patient move

What is injury?

100

Refusals for care must take this form

What is informed?

100

Common sign of respiratory distress in pediatrics?

What are see saw respirations?

100

Chrondo

What is cartilage?

200

System that releases hormones

What is the endocrine system?

200

term used for when the EMT thoroughly cleans equipment 

What is decontaminate?

200

transfer of care is official at this point

When the EMT gives the oral report?

200

A patient who can be properly assessed while still in the vehicle should not be removed by this method

What is rapid extrication?

200

Closer to the midline of the body

What is medial?

300

Waste product of aerobic metabolism 

What are carbon dioxide and water?

300

Knowing this helps the EMT estimate the severity of injuries in a trauma patient 

What is MOI?

300

Emt must do this when suspicious circumstances exist

What is document?

300

Should be done when unconscious patients are found and natural gas smell is discovered

What is rapidly remove the patients and the rescuers?

300

Bones of the forearm

What is ulna and radius?

400

term used to describe decomposition of body tissue

What is putrefaction?

400

When the EMT is on the phone or radio contact with the medical director

What is online medical control?

400

This is the reason that EMTs should not cut holes in clothing caused by weapons

What is preservation of evidence?

400

This portion of the infant’s head is larger than in the adult

What is occiput?

400

Inferior cartilaginous tip of the sternum

What is the xiphoid process?

500

Transmission of disease by animal or insect

What is vector borne?

500

in a MCI, treatment and transport should begin at this point

What is after all the patients are triaged?

500

Action that an EMT would need special permission to do

What is insert an IV?

500

Decline in cardiac function in late life is usually due to this

What is atheroscerosis?

500

Skull, face, thorax, vertebral column

What is the axial skeleton?