EMT Jeopardy Game

Vocabulary

100

Answer: Equipment worn to minimize exposures to hazards.

Question: What is PPE?

200

Answer: Bright red, spurting blood.

Question: What is arterial bleeding?

300

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

Question: What are mechanisms of injury?

400

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

Question: What is wheezing?

500

Answer: Coarse popping or snoring noises.

Question: What is rhonchi?

MEDICAL

100

Question: 

Why/When do you call for additional resources?

Answer:

The response crew needs ALS support or there are more patients than providers.

200

Answer: The patient medication that EMT’s can assist with during a severe asthma attack.

Question: What is albuterol inhaler?

300

Answer: The patient medication that will assist with breathing during anaphylactic shock.

Question: What is epinephrine?

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.

500

Answer: The sound produced from Croup, an upper airway infection, that blocks breathing.

Question: What is a barking sound.

TRAUMA/SHOCK

100

Answer: Only to be used as a last resort – considered as life or limb option.

Question: When do you use a tourniquet?

200

Answer: Shock caused by an allergic reaction.

Question: What is anaphylactic shock?

300

Answer: The type of shock caused by loss of blood volume.

Question: What is hemorrhagic shock?

400

Answer: Used when the blood pressure is less than 90 mm mercury and the patient has signs and symptoms of shock.

Question: What is the pneumatic anti-shock garment?

500

Answer: Also called dying respirations, they are sporadic, irregular breaths usually seen just before respiratory arrest.

Question: What are agonal respirations?

TRAUMA

100

Answer: A danger zone.

Question: What do you establish around a vehicle accident?

200

Answer: Used to treat a suspected femur fracture.

Question: What is a hare traction splint?

300

Answer: Do not replace organ(s), apply an occlusive dressing and bulky trauma dressings.

Question: How do you treat an evisceration?

400

Answer: Cold, clammy skin, diaphoresis, altered mental status, nausea and vomiting.

Question: What are the signs and symptoms of shock?

500

Answer: The last vital sign to change in response to shock.

Question: What is blood pressure?

Random

100

The dominant pacemaker of the heart is...

What is SA Node.

200

Answer: The oxygen delivery device of choice for a priority 3 COPD patient on home oxygen.

Question: What is a nasal canula?

300

The proper head position when using an oropharyngeal airway.

What is hyperextended?

400

The mask that delivers close to 100% oxygen.

What is the non-rebreather?

500

Protects the emergency care provider from civil law suits.

What is the Good Samaritan Law.