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Medical Emergencies and Treatment
100
Name the four general levels of EMS training, starting with the lowest level.
What are EMR, EMT, Advanced EMT, and Paramedic?
100
The divisions of the spinal column in descending order.
What is Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral, Coccyx?
100

If my oxygen is 90% when during my assessment do I apply oxygen?

Primary, specifically during Breathing

100

Medication in the EMT National Scope of Practice that is administered a suspension/Liquid?

What is activated charcoal?

100

Episodes of stroke-like symptoms that come and go.

What are Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIAs)?

200
The way that every EMT should act under any circumstance.
What is Standard of Care?
200
The primary pacemaker of the heart.
What is the Sinoatrial (SA) Node?
200

What is the T in OPQRSTI

What is time, over time is it getting better or worse?

200

Dosage of Epinephrine delivered in the typical adult auto-injector.

What is 0.3 mg?

200

Prolonged seizure activity or multiple seizures without regaining consciousness.

What is Status Epilepticus?

300
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the extent and limitations of the skills practiced by EMTs.
What is Scope of Practice?
300
Breathing that sounds like high-pitched whistling upon exhalation.
What are expiratory wheezes?
300

Your patient is noted to have an ETCO2 of 66mmHG, you are using a BVM to breath for the patient.  Do you ventilate faster or slower to achieve a level of 45mmHG? 

Ventilate faster

300

What is the dose of Zofran ODT?

4mg per dose max of 8 mg. 

300

A gradual buildup of plaque in the arteries is called?

What is atherosclerosis?

400

Policies or authorized activity issued by a medical director that authorize EMTs to perform particular skills in certain situations.

What is protocols

400

Divides the upper an lower airway

What is Epiglottis

400

An upper airway sound indicative of obstruction.

What is stridor?

400

The mechanism of action by which Nitroglycerin relieves chest pain.

What is vasodilation?

400

My patient is unresponsive and use of a BVM is showing difficult compliance.  What is the next step to provide ventilations?

what is insertion of a supraglottic or IGEL
500
Crime involving a duty to act, breach of duty, harm occurred, and proximate cause?
What is Negligence?
500

Responsible for producing insulin

What is the Pancreas

500

The three parameters included in the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale.

What are facial droop, arm drift, and speech?

500

What is the classification or action of Glucagon?

Carbohydrate, used to increase blood sugars

500

A medical condition with signs or symptoms that may include unequal bilateral pulse pressures, severe chest, pulsating abdomen or back pain, and a feeling of impending doom.

What is abdominal aortic aneurism (AAA)?