Who's Driving This Rig?
This department is the most common hospital gateway for patients needing emergency medical assistance.
What is the emergency department?
This stage of stress response includes increased heart rate and blood pressure.
What is the alarm reaction stage?
This body position means standing upright, facing forward, arms at the side, palms forward.
What is the anatomic position?
The simplest way to determine whether a patient has a patent airway is to do this.
What is say “hello”?
This begins as the ambulance approaches the scene.
What is scene size-up?
This organ pumps blood through the body.
What is the heart?
This vital sign measures how many times the heart beats in one minute.
What is pulse?
This is the process of giving information to another person clearly and accurately.
What is communication?
This term describes written lists of steps EMTs follow when assessing and managing emergency situations.
What are protocols?
This is the safest body part to use when lifting a patient or equipment.
What are the legs?
This directional term means “to the side.”
What is lateral?
This airway maneuver is recommended for an unconscious patient with possible head, neck, or spine injury.
What is the jaw-thrust maneuver?
This is the most reliable way to identify immediately life-threatening conditions.
What is a systematic approach to assessment?
This complaint is commonly associated with a possible heart attack.
What is chest pain or chest discomfort?
This device is commonly used to measure blood pressure.
What is a blood pressure cuff or sphygmomanometer?
This type of question encourages a patient to explain symptoms in their own words.
What is an open-ended question?
This type of medical direction involves contacting a physician for permission or guidance during patient care.
What is online medical direction?
This patient position is used for an unconscious patient who is breathing adequately and has no suspected spinal injury.
What is the recovery position?
These two portions of the spine are most easily injured.
What are the cervical and lumbar spine?
Suctioning the airway should generally be limited to this many seconds at a time.
What is 10 seconds?
For an infant, this pulse is usually checked during primary assessment.
What is the brachial pulse?
This medication may be administered or assisted with for a patient with suspected cardiac chest pain, according to protocol.
What is aspirin?
This vital sign measures the number of breaths a patient takes in one minute.
What is respiratory rate?
This radio report is given to the receiving facility before arrival.
What is a patient report or radio report?
This federal act helps emergency providers learn whether they were exposed to certain life-threatening communicable diseases on the job.
What is the Ryan White CARE Act?
If a weight is below waist level and must be pulled, this position helps protect the EMT’s back.
What is a kneeling position?
This inferior-most part of the sternum can be injured if CPR hand placement is too low.
What is the xiphoid process?
This medication is given for hypoxia.
What is oxygen?
This scale is commonly used to have patients rate pain intensity.
What is the 0 to 10 pain scale?
This device analyzes heart rhythm and may deliver a shock to a patient in cardiac arrest.
What is an AED?
Cool, pale, clammy skin may suggest this circulation problem.
What is poor perfusion or shock?
This communication technique confirms that a message was received and understood.
What is closed-loop communication?
This phrase describes the range of care an EMT is legally allowed and trained to provide.
What is scope of practice?
This should be avoided when lifting because it increases the risk of injury to the spine and back muscles.
What is twisting the torso?
This body system primarily produces hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
This oxygen flowmeter must be used upright to function properly.
What is a pressure-compensated flowmeter?
These should not be included in a patient care report because they may be unclear outside radio communication.
What are radio codes?
This term describes a heart rhythm that is too slow for the patient’s condition.
What is bradycardia?
This finding combines pulse strength, skin condition, and mental status to help evaluate circulation.
What is perfusion?
Using medical jargon with patients may create this problem.
What is confusion or misunderstanding?