From Bystander to Lifesaver
The NREMT provides.
What is the national standard for testing of EMTs?
The first priority of an EMT.
What is their safety?
The difference between slander and libel.
Slander is spoken while libel is written defamation
Type of radio at the station or hospital that allows for sending and receiving transmissions
What is a base radio?
What is 206 bones?
Normal respiratory rate for an adult is...
What is 12-20 breaths/min?
Traffic, weather, and bystanders are all example of this type of hazard
What are environmental hazards
Term defining directions given to the EMT by a physician over the telephone or radio
What is Online Medical Control
Quid pro quo definition
What is the act of requesting sexual favors in exchange for something else?
This type of consent is assumed when a patient is unconscious or unable to make decisions and needs emergency care
What is implied consent
Types of questions that allow for detailed responses are.
The body system that produces hormones
What is the endocrine system
The long bones in the body are...
What are the humerus and femur?
The type of reasoning when a child looks to society or peers for approval...
When responding in an emergency vehicle, the vehicle must be operated with...
What is with due regard for safety and traffic laws?
The EMTs obligation to provide care to a patient either as a formal or ethical responsibility
What is the duty to act?
Stages of grieving.
What are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance?
Types of advanced directives.
Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order, Physicians Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) order.
When documenting your assessments they should be...
What is objective and detailed.
The part of the brain that is responsible for body's vital functions such as heart and respiratory rate. Consisting of the medulla, the pons and the midbrain.
What is the brain stem
The body cavity that contains the heart and the lungs
What is the thoracic cavity
The soft spot on the top of the head where the skull has not fused yet is called...
What are the fontanelles?
The best position for transporting an unconscious patient who does not have a possibility of spinal injury and who is breathing adequately
What is the recovery position
Prestablished rules and guidelines for the treatment of patients.
What are Protocols?
A virus is transmitted to an EMT several days after it got on the stretcher through blood.
What is Indirect contact
What is when a patient poses a significant threat to themself or others
When obtaining a refusal of care from your patient they must...
What is have capacity and be competent?
Closer to the point of attachment to the body
Blood that leaves the right side of the heart travels through which vessel on the way to the lungs?
What is the pulmonary Artery
A nervous system change commonly found in older adults is...
What is the deterioration of nerve endings?
Most patients transported in the ambulance are transported in this position.
What is the semi-fowlers position?
Act that prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities.
What is the ADA of 1990?
Elements of General Adaptation Syndrome.
What are alarm response, reaction and resistance, and recovery?
Define emancipated minor.
What is an individual under 18 who has been legally released from the custody, control, and financial support of their parents or guardians, either by court order, marriage, military service or is pregnant.
Patient Care Reports are reviewed for...
Relation of the clavicle to the breast
What is superior
Fight or flight is also known as the __________ nervous system because it causes tachycardia, vasoconstriction, and decreased peristalsis.
What is the sympathetic nervous system
The Moro reflex is...
What are seat belts?
Act that provides protection of patient information?
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
Transmission routes for infection.
What are airborne, direct, indirect and vector?
What is consent?
When receiving orders form medical control you should...
What is repeat the order back to the doctor to confirm that what you heard was accurate?
The term pericardiocentesis means...
What is the removal of fluid from around the heart?
What is the diaphragm?
The ages of the neonate stage are...
What is birth up to one month of age?
Two of the most serious consequences for a poorly planned lift or move of a patient are...
What is serious injury to yourself and your patient?