EMT Basics
This healthcare professional, known by its abbreviation, EMT.
What is Emergency Medical Technician?
Name 1 medications that EMTs can provide or assist in providing.
What is albuterol, nitroglycerin, aspirin, diastat, epinephrine, glucose, oxygen, or narcan?
This bone is the longest and one of the strongest bones in the body.
What is a femur?
Morphine, Codeine, Methadone, and Oxycodone are all types of this class of drug/agent
What is an opiate/opioid?
Stomach, Esopaghus, Colon
What is the Digestive System?
In this widely recognized symbol of EMS, the serpent and the staff represent this ancient Greek figure.
Who is Asclepius?
Narcan and Naloxone are most commonly known for treating this medical condition.
What is opioid overdose?
This structure of connective tissue, not a joint or a ligament, connects muscles to bones.
What is a tendon?
According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, this method is how 80% of poisonings occur.
What is Ingestion?
Mandible, Sternum, Pelvis
What is the skeletal system?
This type of EMTs, sometimes referred to as EMT-P, holds the highest level of EMT certification and can perform advanced, life-saving interventions.
What is a Paramedic?
How does an EMT deliver epinephrine using this device or through this route.
What is an EpiPen? What is Intramuscular?
This bone (or set of bones, depending on how you look at it!) contains a feature, known as “foramen magnum,” or “big hole.”
What is the skull/cranium?
Diazepam, Secobarbital, and Midazolam are all sedative-hypnotics. Which of the following is not a typical sign or symptom of sedative-hypnotics?
A. Slurred Speech B. Sedation or Coma C. Hyperventilation D. Hypotension
What is C) Hyperventilation?
Fallopian Tubes, Testicles, Cervix
Private Ambulance Agencies make up 40% of organizations providing EMS Transport Services. What type of organization makes up 37%?
Fire Departments
Instead of oral glucose, some state protocols permit providers to administer this in case of hypoglycemia.
What is a sugary beverage or food, such as orange juice.
Which section of the spine contains the most vertebrae?
The Thoracic Spine (12 thoracic vertebrae)
What is the phone number for Poison Control?
What is 1-800-222-1222?
Kidney, Ureter, Bladder
What is the Renal/Urinary System?
This widely recognized symbol representing Emergency Medical Services across the U.S. is adapted from the Medical ID Symbols of the American Medical Association. (Hint: Star of ____)
What is the Star of Life?
Nitroglycerin is kept in dark bottles for this reason or else it will become inactive.
What is deterioration due to light?
Two of the three bones in the middle ear are called the Malleus (Hammer) and Incus (Anvil). The third one, the stapes, is commonly referred to as what?
A. The Stapler B. The Striker C. The Stirrup D. The Cap
C. The Stirrup
Over 1 in 10 deaths, according to the CDC, among working-age adults in the U.S. can be attributed to excessive use of this poison.
What is Alcohol?
Gastrocnemius, Trapezius, Rectus abdominis
What is the muscular system?