EMS Basics
This term defines the evaluation of the patient's condition in order to provide emergency care
What is patient assessment?
These items needed for Standard Precautions or body substance isolation precautions must always be used when interacting with patients, although you may not actually need to announce to the room, "I have my ____!"
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
An EMT maneuvering a patient through a narrow hallway would be well suited to use this type of stretcher
What is a flexible (or Reeves) stretcher?
A legal directive to withhold defined resuscitative efforts is commonly known by this three letter acronym
What is a DNR?
Word describing the proximity of the wrist to the elbow
What is distal?
Also known as QI, this is a program or process for evaluating and improving the effectiveness of an EMS system
What is Quality Improvement?
A patient who has a productive cough and who reports weight loss, loss of appetite, weakness, night sweats, and fever may have this disease, which took the life of many notable figures such as composer Frederic Chopin and author Emily Bronte
What is tuberculosis?
This type of injury is considered a contraindication for the use of a scoop or orthopedic stretcher
What is a spinal injury?
Once the patient becomes unresponsive and is unable to make an informed decision, you may provide them care under this concept
What is Implied Consent?
A patient who is lying prone has this part of the body facing the ground
What is the face?
In 1970, this registry was founded to establish national standards within the industry
What is the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT)?
Federal law mandates emergency healthcare providers can find out if they have been exposed to potentially life-threatening diseases while on the job via this act, passed in 1990
What is the Ryan White CARE Act?
During an emergency move, the patient should be moved along this axis to minimize the possibility of further aggravating a possible spinal injury
What is the long axis?
The set of regulations that defines the legal actions expected of and limitations placed on the EMT is known as this
What is Scope of Practice?
Drawing two imaginary lines intersecting at the navel create these sections of the abdomen
What are abdominal quadrants?
The application of oxygen for a patient who is short of breath without having to contact the physician in the emergency department because of existing protocols is an example of this type of order
What is a standing order?
In education, the Three R's refer to Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. In the world of EMTs however it refers to these 3 R words to protect providers from danger
What are Respond, Radio, and Reassess?
When weight being pulled is below the level of the EMT's waist, he should be in this position
What is kneeling?
The EMT's obligation to provide care to a patient either as a formal or ethical responsibility is known as
What is Duty to Act?
A line from the center of the armpit extending vertically down the side of the chest
What is the midaxillary line?
Centralized coordination of emergency medical access, transportation, and care is described by this term
What is Resource Management?
What a pity! This part of the nervous system is responsible for the fight-or-flight response experienced in response to a stressor
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
When placing all fingers and the palm in contact with the object being lifted, you are using this type of grip
What is Power Grip?
While documenting a call, adding a false statement that was made about a local doctor could constitute this type of ethical breach
What is libel?
Anatomy is the study of body structure, while this is the study of body function
What is physiology?