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Vocabulary
Pediatrics
Medical/Legal
Human Body
Trauma
200
A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certian situations.
What is Standing Orders?
200

A respiratory illness that is easily treated by cold or moist air

What is croup?

200

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?

200

The largest bone in the body

What is the femur?

200

A c-collar is to be placed by protocol if the patient is over this age

What is 65 years old?

400
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?
400

Pediatric medications are calculated by this

What is body weight?

(mg/kg)

400

  The consent which is used to treat a patient that is otherwise unable to communicate

What is implied consent?

400

The largest organ in the body

What is the skin?

400

A traction splint is used for

What is midline femur fractures?

600

GCS stands for this

Glasgow coma scale

600

Temporary apnea and syncope with full recovery

What is a BRUE?

600

A finding of failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.

What is Negligence?

600

The four chambers of the heart

What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle?

600

An open chest wound is treated with this

What is an occlusive dressing?

800

A condition caused by insufficient blood flow to the tissues of the body

What is Shock?

800

A child with this condition presents with a non-focused gaze and drooling

What is epiglottitis? 

800

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?

800

The five divisions of the spine

What is cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx.

800

This system is used to determine the percentage burned on a body


What is the rule of nines?

1000

The largest segment of the spine with 12 vertrebrae


What is thoracic?

1000

The most common type of pediatric seizure

What is febrile seizures?

1000

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?

1000

This is the only bone in the body not connected to any other bone

What is the Hyoid?

1000

This is a general characteristic of an arterial bleed

What is bleeding that spurts out in a pulsating rhythm?