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Level/flat and 150 feet from the incident?
What are the ideal conditions for a landing zone.
The most inferior section of the spine.
What is the coccyx?
Dilation of the pupils is indicative of activation of this component of the nervous system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system (SNS)?
The top number when documenting a blood pressure.
What is the systolic BP?
The unit of measurement used for BGL.
What is mg/dL?
Extrication/patient access requiring no special tools/skills.
What is simple extrication?
This type of muscles are found in the walls of blood vessels, bronchi, and the intestines.
What are smooth muscles?
This portion of the nervous system is activated to address immediate danger.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Vital signs must be obtained at least this often for unstable patients.
What is every five minutes?
Term that describes skin condition, heart rate, pupillary response along with others.
What are vital signs?
The posts that the front doors of a vehicle close against.
What are the B posts?
An appropriate way to assess for hypovolemia in dark-complected patients.
What is to check the oral mucosa or conjunctiva?
A common coping mechanism used to blunt SNS reaction in patients with PTSD.
What is substance abuse?
Appropriate positioning for an alert patient with shortness of breath.
What is Fowler's position?
One reason elderly patients are more susceptible to lower respiratory infections than younger patients.
What is diminished cough reflex?
When approaching an intersection, this principle means you must wait for all traffic to stop before proceeding though.
What is due regard?
A baroreceptors' role in the body.
What is to identify changes in blood pressure?
Symptoms of this condition include confusion, impulsivity, and headache.
What is a TBI?
Best practice to confirm orders received by medical direction.
What is to echo the orders?
An environmental indication to obtain a palpated blood pressure.
What is a loud/noisy environment?
The most important detail for EMS to obtain from dispatch ASAP.
What is the location/address of the call?
An increase in this type of pressure can result in edema or "third-spacing".
What is hydrostatic pressure?
The initial priority in beginning to address a combat vet that appears angry/agitated.
What is by establishing rapport and maintaining scene safety?
A reference tool that should be placed in every emergency vehicle for use when responding to a possible "hazmat" incident.
What is the Emergency Response Guidebook?
The result of an opening developing that allows air into the space between the visceral and parietal pleura of the thorax?
What is a progressively collapsing lung?