Scene Size Up
This would be your next action after seeing a patient pull a gun on scene.
What is leave the scene and call for additional resources?
This is your first responsibility at any scene or any call.
What is Personal Safety?
This is defined as 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?
This term(s) is used to describe bruising behind the ears over the mastiod process.
What is battle signs?
This is the primary waste product of aerobic metabolism.
What is carbon dioxide?
You are on scene of a MVC. The act of the crash would be considered this for a trauma patient.
What is Mechanism of Injury?
This consists of orders from the on duty physician given directly to an EMT in the field by radio or telephone.
What is online medical direction?
This patient has the right to refuse care.
What is a mentally competent adult?
This is the physical act of moving air in and out of the lungs.
What is ventilation?
These are the primary actions of epinephrine.
What is bronchodilation and vasoconstriction?
DAILY DOUBLE
This zone exists around the wreckage of every vehicle collision, where which special safety precautions must be taken.
This is the term used to described a deceased person to the family to ensure no false hope is provided.
What is Dead?
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?
This is the order the number of vertebrae in order of the spinal column.
What is 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5, lumbar, 5 sacrum, and 5 coccyx?
The central nervous system is composed of these two parts.
What is the brain and spinal cord?
This is the time your scene size up starts.
What is as you approach the scene?
You are on scene of a cardiac arrest and the family states the patient has a DNR, but they are unable to produce it and want you to stop. This is your next step.
What is continue to provide CPR?
This is defined as permission from the patient?
What is consent?
These organs are located in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen.
What is liver, right kidney, colon, pancreas, and gall bladder?
These are two contraindications of CPAP.
What is low BP and altered mental status?
The definition of this phrase is 'finding out what is or what may be wrong with the patient.'
What is the Nature of the Illness?
These are a list of steps for assessment and interventions to be preformed in different situations.
What are protocols?
These laws have been developed to provide immunity to individuals trying to help people in emergencies.
What are Good Samaritan laws?
These 4 chambers make up the heart.
What is the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the last measurable change in compensated vs decompensated shock?