Vocab
This term refers to the body’s ability to maintain a stable internal environment.
What is Homeostasis
This movement is used when a patient is supine and needs to be moved to a stretcher with minimal spinal movement.
What is a log roll?
The acronym used to assess level of consciousness using eye, verbal, and motor responses.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)?
This position in ICS is always activated and responsible for overall incident management.
What is the Incident Commander?
This is the primary muscle responsible for breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
This term describes a medication or treatment that relieves pain without causing loss of consciousness.
What is an analgesic?
This four-rescuer carry positions one rescuer at the head, one at the feet, and one on each side, forming this shape around the patient.
What is the diamond carry?
This portion of the nervous system controls involuntary actions like breathing and digestion.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
This ICS principle limits the number of subordinates working under one supervisor.
What is span of control?
These vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This term means “toward the midline of the body.”
What is medial?
Device used to extricate patients from vehicles while maintaining spinal alignment.
What is a KED (Kendrick Extrication Device)?
Unequal pupils may indicate increased pressure inside the skull, also known as this.
What is increased intracranial pressure (ICP)?
The section responsible for tracking resources and collecting incident documentation in order to think ahead.
What is the Planning Section?
The heart’s natural pacemaker.
What is the SA node (sinoatrial node)?
The term that describes difficulty breathing.
What is dyspnea?
This drag is safest for a patient in a hazardous environment when you need to move them quickly.
What is a clothes drag (or emergency drag)?
This post-seizure state is characterized by confusion and fatigue.
What is the postictal state?
The standardized system designed to enable agencies to work together during emergencies.
What is NIMS (National Incident Management System)?
This body system includes the spleen, lymph nodes, and tonsils and helps fight infection.
What is the lymphatic (immune) system?
This term refers to the presence of abnormal sounds—such as crackles or wheezes—heard when auscultating the lungs.
What are adventitious breath sounds?
This lift requires coordinating multiple rescuers to raise a supine patient from the ground while maintaining body mechanics and alignment.
What is a direct ground lift?
This type of stroke occurs when a blood vessel in the brain becomes blocked.
What is an ischemic stroke?
This position handles media, public information releases, and must coordinate all messaging.
What is the Public Information Officer (PIO)?
The portion of the brain responsible for coordination and balance.
What is the cerebellum?