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A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certian situations.
What is Standing Orders?
100
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is Personal Safety.
100
leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
What is Abandonment.
100

Name the five divisions of the spine.

What is cervical thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.

100

The central nervous system is composed of the...

What is the brain and spinal cord?

200
A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious.
What is Standard Precautions?
200

There are four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)

What is first responder, EMT basic, Advanced EMT, and EMT paramedic.

200
The consent it is presumed a patient or patients parent would give if they could such as for an unconscioius patient or a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed.
What is implied consent.
200
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
200

The contraindications for Aspirin is...

What is Stomach Ulcers, Allergic to Aspirin and Clotting disorder?

300
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent and limits, of the EMT's job.
What is Scope of Practice?
300

Medical director issues a standing order that allows EMT's to give medication in certain circumstances without speaking directly to the medical director. This is known as..

What is offline medical direction.

300

A finding of failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.

What is Negligence.

300
List the organs in the upper left quadrant
What is liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney, and colon.
300

The 8 drugs an EMT basic can administer are...

What is Nitro, Aspirin, Oxygen, Glucose, Epinephrine, Activated Charcoal, Assisted Albuterol Inhaler, and Naloxone?

400

Falls from ladders, bent steering wheels, a knife laying next to a patient.

What is Mechanisms of Injury?

400
Which of the following statments about DNR orders are false. A. A DNR order requires a signature from a physician. B. You do not actually have to see the order verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient. C. Mentally competent patients may refuse care.
What is Answer B. You do not actually have to see the order verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient.
400

A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent, and limit's of the EMT's job

What is scope of practice.

400
List the organs located in the right upper quadrant.
What is liver, right kidney, colon, pancreas, and gall bladder.
400

When is comes to anaphylactic shock

The dosage for epinephrine for an adult is...

The dosage for epinephrine for a Pedi is...

What is 0.3 Mg for an adult?

What is 0.15Mg for Pedi?

500

The sound produced when there is edema or spasms of the lower airway.

What is Wheezing?

500

The mask that delivers close to 100% oxygen.

What is the Non-rebreather?

500
A federal law protecting the privacy of the patients specific health care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed
What is HIPPA.
500
List in order the number of vertebrae in order of the spinal column.
What is cervical 7 thoracic 12 lumbar 5 sacral 5 coccyx 4
500

The pneumonic used following delivery to measure the overall status of the newborn is...

What is APGAR?

A- Activity

P- Pulse

G- Grimmace

A- Appearance

R- Respiration