🚨 MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
This category of emergency is most commonly caused by complications of diabetes.
What is an endocrine emergency?
Medical patient assessment focuses on this instead of mechanism of injury.
What is the nature of illness (NOI)?
Critical medical patients require this.
What is rapid transport?
A disease outbreak occurring worldwide.
What is a pandemic?
Dispatch reports "flu-like symptoms." What should you avoid before arriving on scene?
What is tunnel vision or assuming the diagnosis
Kidney stones are an example of this type of medical emergency.
What is a urologic emergency?
This cognitive error occurs when an EMT becomes fixated on one diagnosis.
What is tunnel vision?
These four patients should always be considered high priority.
What is patients with
This mask should be placed on a patient with suspected respiratory disease.
What is a surgical mask?
Your patient has altered mental status but no obvious trauma. What is your transport priority?
What is Rapid transport.
Match the emergency to the body system.
What is
True or False: Frequent callers always have the same complaint.
What is False.
Life-threatening patients should generally be transported using this response mode.
What are lights and sirens?
This disease is transmitted by airborne droplet nuclei and requires an N95 or HEPA respirator.
What is tuberculosis?
A coughing patient with night sweats and weight loss requires what PPE?
What is An N95 (or HEPA) respirator.
These emergencies involve the body's response to foreign substances.
What are immunologic emergencies?
Name the three primary assessment focuses for a medical patient.
What is
Generally, where should a medical patient be transported?
The closest appropriate hospital.
True or False: HIV is easily transmitted during routine patient care.
What is False.
A patient becomes combative during assessment. Should you become confrontational?
What is No. Remain calm and professional.
Name five categories of medical emergencies discussed in this chapter.
What is
A patient is hostile and refusing to cooperate. What is the EMT's best approach?
Remain professional, calm, and nonjudgmental.
Ground or Air?
A patient requires rapid transport to a specialty center 75 miles away.
What is air transport?
This disease is more contagious than HIV and vaccination is highly recommended for EMTs.
What is Hepatitis B?
A patient has severe shortness of breath, altered mental status, and poor perfusion. What are your three immediate priorities?
What is