Vocabulary
Introduction
Pathophysiology
Human Body
Random
100
A term for weakness on one side of the body.
What hemiparesis?
100
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is Personal Safety.
100
What is the most common type of Stroke?
Ischemic stroke
100
Name the three major parts of the brain?
What is cerebellum, cerebrum, brain stem.
100
The dominant pacemaker of the heart is...
What is SA Node?
200
The inability to understand and/or produce speech.
What is aphasia?
200
There are four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)
What is first responder, EMT basic, EMT intermediate, and EMT paramedic.
200
A disorder in which calcium and cholesterol build up, forming plaque inside the walls of a blood vessel.
What is Atherosclerosis
200
This part of the brain controls anatomic nervous system such as swallowing, blood pressure, breathing, pupil contrictions?
What is the brain stem.
200
List the 3 types of patient moves.
What is emergancy moves, urgent moves, and non-urgent moves
300
A swelling or enlargement of the wall of a blood vessel that results from weakening of a vessel wall.
What is aneurysm?
300
The acronym used To assess the patient's level of consciousness
What is A V P U scale?
300
Where the blood clot forms in a remote area (such as a diseased heart) and then travels to a site of the blockage.
What is a embolus
300
The front part of this section of the brain controls emotion and thought?
What is cerebrum. (frontal cortex)
300
What is the name of the condition when the patient forgets about the injured side after a stroke.
What is NEGLECT?
400
Medical term for Slurred Speech.
What is dysarthia?
400
The acronym used when taking a Patient History from the patient.
S A M P L E
400
a reduction in blood supply that results in inadequate oxygen being supplied to the brain cells.
What is ischemia.
400
What does the back part of the cerebrum process?
The Occipital Lobe of the cerebrum process light.
400
The outer most part of the skin is called.....
What is epidermis?
500
A seizure characterized by severe twitching of all the body's muscle that last several minutes or more.
What is generalizied (tonic-clonic) seizure?
500
An emt or other person authorized by a Medical Director to give medications and provide emergency care
What is Designated Agent
500
An interruption of blood flow to an area within the brain that results in the loss of brain function?
What is a stroke or Cerebrovascular Accident CVA
500
How Many Crainial Nerve's that run directly from the brain to various parts of the head and spinal cord?
12
500
The central nervous system is composed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.