EMS Systems
Legally obligates EMT to protect patient‘s privacy
What is HIPAA?
Created by pressure waves through arteries caused by cardiac contractions
What is pulse?
Best method to prevent spread of infectious disease
What is Hand washing?
Ability of patient to ask for transportation but not treatment
What is consent?
Type of question that allows for most detailed response
What is open ended?
The year the EMS White Paper was published.
What is 1966?
First actions taken with a bleeding patient
What is direct pressure and elevation?
Term for giving care without legal permission from a conscious adult.
What is battery?
Consent for an injured child with no parents present
What is implied consent?
How EMT should conduct radio transmissions?
What is brief and easily understood?
The national organization that provides the EMT Scope of Practice.
What is the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)?
Used to open the airway of a patient with trauma
What is jaw-thrust maneuver?
Action taken when power lines are lying across vehicle involved in MVC
What is mark off the danger zone?
Allowed only when the patient is a threat to self or others
What is forcible restraint?
This type of radio allows simultaneous two-way communication.
What is a duplex system?
The first priority of an EMT at the scene of an emergency.
What is scene safety?
The concern the patient called 911 about
What is the chief complaint?
Transmission of disease by animals or insects
What is a vector borne?
What must the EMT do when a DNR is in place per the caregiver but can’t be produced
What is treat?
Best protection for the EMT when completing the. PCR
What is document fully and accurately?
Provides a national standard for EMS testing
What is NREMT?
Helps the EMT predict the severity of the patient’s traumatic injuries
What is the MOI?
Action taken by the EMT when TB is suspected with the patient
What is mask patient and apply N95 mask to self?
Requirements for negligence?
What are duty to act, breach of duty, injury/damages, and causation?
When the patient refuses transport after being fully briefed by the EMT on the consequences
What is an informed refusal?