Vocabulary
Meaning closer to the midline
What is medial?
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is Personal Safety.
Occurs when all 4 of the following conditions are met:
1. EMT had a duty to act
2. EMT breached that duty
3. Harm or damages were caused to the patient.
4. The harm or damages were caused by the breach of duty.
What is Negligence?
Stoke
What is CVA?
The sensation produced by friction when palpating a body injury.
What is Crepitus?
What is COPD?
A type of transfer that occurs between two acute medical facilities?
What is IFT?
Listening with a stethoscope.
What is Auscultation?
There are four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)
What is first responder, basic, advanced, and paramedic.
A Massachusetts form usually filled out by law enforcement officers for reasons of expressing suicidal or homicidal ideations. This form cannot be used on minors.
What is a Section 12?
Heart Attack.
What is MI?
A bruise or ecchymosis.
What is Contusion?
The type of heart attack associated without EKG changes and an increase of troponin.
What is NSTEMI?
Done to a person who's heart has stopped and is no longer breathing.
What is CPR?
A sign of fluid loss or dehydration, more often seen in elderly, in which the skin stays tented up.
What is Skin Turgor?
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.
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?
The central nervous system is composed of the...
What is brain and spinal cord.
The most basic form of emergency medical care.
What is BLS?
A term used to describe disembowelment.
What is Evisceration?
A sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain that can cause the body to convulse.
What is Seizure?
The term used for a situation or scene that requires more resources than 1 service has.
What is MCI?
Abnormal, high-pitched sound produced by turbulent airflow through a partially obstructed airway.
What is Stridor?
A legally binding piece of paper that clearly expresses the wishes of an individual should an event occur where the patient cannot express this them self.
What is a DNR?
The official name of the top number of the blood pressure.
A program that every service has in place to review documentation and provide feedback.
What is CQI?
Defined as two or more contiguous rib fractures with two or more breaks per rib.
What is Flail Chest?
Inflammation and swelling of a structure that sits between the tongue and back of the throat.
What is Epiglottitis?
The piece of equipment used to give oxygen at a rate of 1-6 lpm.
What is NC?
Word used to describe respirations greater than 20 breaths per minute.
What is Tachypnea?
An EMT or other person authorized by a Medical Director to give medications and provide emergency care
What is Designated Agent
The unlawful touching of another individual without the individuals consent?
What is Battery?
The back of the body or body part.
What is Posterior?
Measured by the rule of 9's in adults.
What is Burns?
An infection of one or both of the lungs that causes the air sacs in the lungs to fill with puss or fluid.
What is Pneumonia?
Occurs when the pressure inside the vena cava increases creating a bulge seen on the side of the neck.
What is JVD?
Pain in the heart region caused by a lack of oxygen?
What is Angina?
Provides the highest levels of prehospital care including advanced assessments, formation of a field impression and provide invasive procedures and drug interventions.
What is Paramedic?
A patient who is under 18 but lives on their own or is pregnant.
What is emancipated minor?
A band of fibrous tissue that connects bones to bones.
What is Ligament?
The stage immediately following a seizure when a patient may be unresponsive or have altered mental status.
What is Post Ictal?
A tool used to provide mechanical ventilation to a person who is not breathing.
What is BVM?
Road rash.
What is Abrasion?
Chronic health condition that affects how your body uses sugar or insulin.
What is Diabetes?
A change from a persons baseline mentation.
What is AMS?
The air sacs in the lungs where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place.
What is Alveoli?
Pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease. Ex: Hepatitis B
What is Bloodborne Pathogens?
Failure of the EMT to continue emergency medical treatment until relieved by someone with the same or higher level of training
What is Abondonment?
The narrow, cartilaginous lower tip of the sternum.
What is Xiphoid Process?
Referring to both sides of the body.
What is Bilateral?
A legal document that tells about every patient encounter.
What is PCR?
The name of the dressing used to cover a sucking chest wound.
What is Occlusive?
A loss of consciousness caused by a drop in blood pressure.
Used to refer to become unconscious usually after some kind of trauma.
What is LOC?
A heart rate below 60 bpm.
What is Bradycardia?
Speaking to an emergency room physician via phone or radio while on scene or while transporting a patient.
What is Online Medical Control?
Consent for treatment that is given based on full disclosure.
What is Informed Consent?
A flat, solid organ that lies just below the liver and stomach. It is a major source of digestive enzymes and produces the hormone insulin.
What is Pancreas?
Referring to face down.
What is Prone?
A build up of pressure within the skull.
What is ICP?
Non-penetrating trauma.
What is Blunt?
A disorder of your digestive system in which stool appears dark and tarry or your vomit to look like coffee grounds.
What is GI Bleed?
A temporary period of signs and symptoms similar to those of a stroke.
What is TIA?
Condition in which tissues in the body do not received enough oxygen and nutrients to allow the cells to function. If unrecognized, this will cause death.
What is Shock?
An EMT of any level who transports a patient without their consent or legal authority.
What is False Imprisonment?
Law that provides immunity to certain people who assist at the scene of a medical emergency.
What is Good Samaritan?
A muscular dome that forms the undersurface of the thorax, separating the chest from the abdominal cavity.
What is Diaphragm?
Tool used to stop arterial bleeding.
What is Tourniquet?
A heart attack which can be seen on an EKG.
What is STEMI?
Accumulation of air and blood in the pleural cavity between the lungs and pleura.
What is Hemopneumothorax?
A long-term disease of the lungs that causes the airways to get inflamed and narrow, making it hard to breath.
What is Asthma?
A sudden blockage in a lung artery. Occurs most often when a blood clot breaks loose and travels through the bloodstream to the lungs.
What is Pulmonary Embolism?
Standing, facing forward, palms facing forward.
What is Anatomical Position?
Consent which allows treatment of a patient who is unconscious.
What is Implied?
While on duty, EMT's are required by law to care for a patient who requires and consents to it.
What is Duty to Act.
Metabolism that takes place in the absence of oxygen.
What is Anaerobic Metabolism?
The term used when the placenta partially or totally covers the cervix.
What is Placenta Previa?
Oxygen.
What is O2?
The presence of bruising and/or abraded skin extending across the abdomen evident after a motor vehicle accident.
What is Seat Belt Sign?
A weakening of the walls of an artery that causes a bulge outward.
What is Aneurysm?
A serious complication of diabetes that occurs when your body doesn't have enough insulin and the sugar is extremely high. Can be life threatening.
What is DKA?