Vocabulary
A bacterial infection of the lungs that is spread through the air from one person to another.
What is Tuberculosis?
True or false - These steps are in the correct order:call, check, care.
What is False?
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.
The dominant pacemaker of the heart is____.
What is SA Node?
The loss of measurable signs of life as the result of a blocked airway or loss of breathing?
What is Secondary Cardiac Arrest.
Inflammation of the liver.
What is Hepatitis?
True or false - HIV and Hepatitis are both bloodborne illnesses.
What is True?
When the law assumes an unresponsive person would give consent if he or she were able to do so.
What is implied consent?
The four chambers of the heart are____, _____, ____, and ____.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left ventricle, and left atrium.
The recommended technique to open and maintain the airway of an unresponsive person. It pulls the jaw forward and lifts the tongue away from the back of the throat?
What is Head Tilt-Chin Lift
Equipment used to prevent pathogens from contaminating your skin, mucous membranes, or clothing.
What is personal protective equipment(PPE)?
True or false - a heart attack is the same thing as cardiac arrest.
What is False?
A law enacted to legally protect trained providers who voluntarily stop to help, act prudently, do not provide care beyond training, and are not completely careless in delivering emergency care.
What is Good Samaritan law.
Another word for permission is_____.
What is consent?
A basic CPR skill that creates increased pressure in the chest cavity and direct compression of the heart. This forces blood to move from the chest to the lungs, brain, and rest of the body?
What is Chest Compressions.
Virus that invades and destroys the cells that help us to fight off infections.
What is HIV?
True or false - tuberculosis is an airborne illness.
What is true?
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.
When performing CPR well, you must give __ chest compressions and give __ breaths.
What is 30 chest compressions and 2 breaths?
Infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans. These pathogens include hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
What is Bloodborne Pathogens.
Protect you from contact with saliva and other bodily fluids, such as blood, as you give rescue breaths.
What are breathing barriers?
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.
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 HIPAA.
A life-threatening BLS emergency in which breathing is absent or not normal and the heart is still beating?
What is Respiratory Arrest.
The abrupt loss of the heart's ability to contract and push blood forward through the circulatory system. Typically caused by a sudden disruption of the heart's electrical system?
What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest.