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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

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

The biggest bone in the human body 

What is the femur?

100

The dominant pacemaker of the heart

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

The four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)

What is first responder, EMT, AEMT, and Paramedic?

200

The consent that is presumed a patient or patients' parent would give if they could such as for an unconscious patient or a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed.

What is implied consent?

200

The four chambers of the heart.

What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.

200

The clinical name for nosebleed 

What is epistaxis?

300

A medical emergency characterized by prolonged seizures or repeated seizures without recovery, requiring immediate medical intervention.

What is status epilepticus?

300

A 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

Failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.

What is Negligence?

300

Organs in the upper left quadrant

What is liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney, and colon.

300

to prevent injury when lifting a patient. two methods commonly used are...

What is power lift, and power grip.

400
A method of lifting and carrying a patient during which one rescuer slips hand under the patient's armpits and grasps the wrists, while another rescuer grasps the patients knees.
What is Extremity Lift?
400
The governing EMS agency

What is the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration? 

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

Organs located in the right upper quadrant.

What is liver, right kidney, colon, pancreas, and gall bladder.

400

Highlighted major issues in pre-hospital treatment with patients with serious injuries

What is The White Papers?

500

Forms the structure of the cheeks.

What is Zygomatic Arches?

500

The first EMS service founded in 1967 in Pittsburgh and was predominantly staffed by Black paramedics

What is Freedom House?

500
Legal obligation to respond to emergencies and provide care

What is duty to act?

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

A common medical problem in sedentary patients and patients who recently had surgery

What is Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)?