Introduction
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is Personal Safety.
leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training. Other than intimate danger to EMS personal.
What is Abandonment.
Name the five divisions of the spine.
What is cervical thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.
The dominant pacemaker of the heart is...
What is SA Node.
There are four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)
What is first responder, EMT basic, EMT intermediate, and EMT paramedic.
The consent that is presumed, a patient or patients parent would give if they could such as for an unconscious patient or a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed.
What is implied consent.
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
What is the treatment of a complete airway obstruction in a conscious adult?
Repeat 6 to 10 abdominal thrusts until the patient becomes unconscious.
Protects the emergency care provider from civil law suits
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation i which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is Negligence.
The point farthest away from the body or attaching point.
What is distal
How to open a patient's airway with a suspected C spine injury
Modified jaw thrust
BSI
What is body substance isolation?
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.
The back surface of the body.
What is posterier
The outer most part of the skin is called.....
What is epidermis.
Ideal size landing zone, Per Med flight
100 X 100 foot
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.
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
The central nervous system is composed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.