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When do we check the patients GCS?
Primary Assessment and Reassessment
What is Physiology
The function of the body and how it interacts with the other systems.
When do EMT's use a JAW Thrust
If the patient has undergone a trauma.
What is Jaundice an indicator of?
Liver Failure
What is MARCH
Massive Hemorrhage, Airway, Respirations, Circulation, Head Injury or Hypothermia
What is an Non-urgent moved vs an urgent move?
A non-urgent patient movement is used when there is no life threats to the patient or the crew.
Patient with a bG of 476
Patient with a bG of 38
Hyperglycemic
Hypoglycemic
Which piece of equipment is used to reduce pain for a patient with a mid-femur fracture?
Traction-Splint
Who's safety comes first
EMS providers, then the patient's.
Difference between a tendon and ligament
Tendons connect muscles to bones
Ligaments connect bone to bone
What mnemonic is used to pinpoint the patient's Chief Complaint.
OPQRST
What is the purpose of the respiratory system
To exchange oxygen in the air for carbon dioxide
YEAH YA BOI
What is hypoxic drive
When the o2 levels are low and too much CO2 is stored.
OPQRST is to SAMPLE as ______ is to MARCH
DCAPBTLS
Treatment for a patient who's respirations are rapid and labored, with a room air SpO2 of 80%
BVM at 15LPM
What is negligence?
Duty to act, breach of duty, and injury
Cholecystitis
EMT's scope of practice
The actions the EMT can legally take
What is an EMT's standard of care?
What an EMT similar training and protocols would do
Blood Flow Through the Heart
right atrium, tricuspid valve to the right ventricle, and then pumped to the lungs through the pulmonary artery for oxygenation. Oxygen-rich blood returns to the heart via pulmonary veins, entering the left atrium, passing through the mitral valve to the left ventricle, and finally pumped out to the body through the aorta
What are the byproducts of cellular metabolism
Heat, carbon dioxide, and water
Medication dosage:
Nitro
ASA
Duo-neb
benadryl
0.4mg
324mg
.5 atrovent/ 2.5 albuterol
25mg tab max of 50mg
sympathetic nervous system known as the????
Fight or Flight
What is the autonomic nervous system regulate
heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, digestion, and sexual arousal