Rules and Responsibilities
The type of medical direction made up of written protocols and standing orders, with no real-time physician contact.
What is offline (indirect) medical direction?
The suffix "-megaly" means this.
What is enlargement?
The assessment step where you find and correct immediate life threats.
What is the primary assessment?
The "A" in the AVPU scale.
What is Alert?
A high-pitched inspiratory sound that points to the upper airway.
What is stridor?
Inadequate perfusion of the body's tissues is the definition of this.
What is shock?
Leaving a patient after care has begun without handing off to equal-or-higher training.
What is abandonment?
When lifting, keep the weight close and lift with these, not your back.
What are your legs?
In AVPU, a patient who responds only to a firm pinch is at this level.
What is P (painful)?
When a pulse is irregular, count it for this long.
What is a full 60 seconds?
The adjunct used only on an unresponsive patient with no gag reflex.
What is the oropharyngeal airway (OPA)?
What the body does to the heart rate to compensate in early shock.
What is speed it up (tachycardia)?
The provider level that can start IVs and give select medications but is not a paramedic.
What is an AEMT?
The air sacs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are actually exchanged.
What are the alveoli?
The interval at which you reassess a stable patient.
What is every 15 minutes?
Pale, cool, clammy skin tells you this is failing.
What is perfusion (the patient is in shock)?
The device that delivers up to ~90% oxygen at 10–15 L/min.
What is the nonrebreathing mask?
The stage of shock marked by a falling blood pressure.
What is decompensated (late) shock?
Treating a competent adult who has refused, without consent, can be charged as this.
What is battery?
The division of the autonomic nervous system responsible for "fight or flight."
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Recognizing this during scene size-up should trigger an immediate call for more units.
What is multiple patients?
The difference between the systolic and diastolic numbers.
What is the pulse pressure?
The device delivering 24–44% oxygen at 1–6 L/min for mild need.
What is the nasal cannula?
The great vessel carrying oxygenated blood from the left ventricle to the body.
What is the aorta?
The four elements that must all be present to prove negligence.
What are duty, breach, causation, and damages?
The thickest, most muscular heart chamber, because it pumps to the whole body.
What is the left ventricle?
What the mechanism of injury is actually best used for (not pinpointing exact injuries).
What is guiding/focusing your assessment?
The range a Glasgow Coma Scale score can fall within.
What is 3 to 15?
Minute volume equals tidal volume multiplied by this.
What is the respiratory rate?
Unlike every other artery, these carry deoxygenated blood.
What are the pulmonary arteries?