BLS Resuscitation
Medical Terminology
Medical, Legal, & Ethical Issues
Communications & Documentation
Syllabus
100

The correct ratio of compressions to breaths a rescuer should provide when conducting CPR

What is 30:2?

100

The term used to describe the front of the body

What is anterior?

100

The common law principle that when you reasonably help another person, you should not be liable for errors and omissions that are made in giving good faith emergency care

What are Good Samaritan Laws?
100

The type of question in which a patient needs only 1 word to answer

What is a closed-ended question?

100

The best way to get a hold of Dr. Lyman

What is through email?

200

The correct maneuver to apply when opening an airway if you suspect a spinal cord injury

What is jaw-thrust maneuver?

200

The word root used to describe the color blue

What is cyan/o?

200

The term used to describe the procedures you are legally able to provide for a patient as defined by state law

What is scope of practice?

200

The military time used to indicate it's 2:00 PM

What is 1400 (fourteen hundred)?

200

The number of Chapter Assessments that will be taken DURING class

What is 1?

300

The term used when a rescuer provides over-inflation either through hyperventilation or excessive inflation of a BVM

What is gastric distention?

300

The term used to describe a patient position in which the head is elevated to help them breathe easier and they are often found in a semi-upright/leaning position

What is Folwer?

300

The two types of defamation and their basic definitions

What are:

libel= defamation in writing

slander= defamation that is spoken

300

The pre-hospital care report EMS providers use for documentation

What is PCR: patient care report?

300

The number of ride-along hours required of students

What are 72?

400

The device that depresses the sternum via a compressed gas-powered or electric-powered plunger mounted on a backboard

What is a mechanical piston device?

400

The anatomical structure that serves as the imaginary line to divide the abdomen into 4 equal quadrants

What is the umbilicus?

400

The term used to describe the time within which a case against someone must commence

What is statute of limitation?

400

The acronym you should use when determining level of consciousness

What is AVPU?

400

The 3 locations ride-along hours can be conducted

What are: Casselton, Lisbon, and Jamestown

500

The 4 reasons not to start CPR

What are:

rigor mortis

dependent lividity

putrefaction

evidence of nonsurvivable injury, such as decapitation

500

The abbreviation used to indicate a patient should take medication "before meals"

What is "ac"?

500

The 4 factors that must be committed to be found negligent are:

What are:
Duty

Breach of duty

Damages

Causation

500

The organization that regulates all radio operations in the United States

What is the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)?

500

The full name of the acronym: RRRDC

What is Red River Regional Dispatch Center?