What Am I?
I am sometimes called the Adam's apple or voicebox.
What is the larynx?
This is the first, and most important rule of EMS.
What is scene safety?
I am the major organ located in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen.
What is the liver?
This is what happens to the diaphragm during inhalation.
What is it contracts and moves down?
This is who can provide consent for a minor.
What is their parent or legal guardian?
If you respond to a potential HAZMAT scene, this is what you should do first.
What is call for a HAZMAT team and control access to the scene?
The A in SAMPLE stands for this.
What are allergies?
I am the largest bone in the arm.
What is the humerus?
This how many liters of oxygen you should use when applying a non-rebreather (NRB).
What is 10-15lpm?
Coming into contact with poison ivy is what kind of exposure to a poison.
What is absorption?
When administering oral glucose to someone with a BGL less than 60, you MUST determine this about a patient.
What is they can maintain their own airway?
If you arrive on scene and find a patient bleeding, after determining your scene is safe, this should be your first priority.
What is stop the bleeding?
I contain the oropharynx, nasopharynx, epiglottis, larynx, trachea, lungs, bronchi and alveoli.
What is the respiratory system?
After scene safety is ensured, this is what must be assessed next, even if there are obvious other injuries.
What are the ABCs? (Airway, Breathing and Circulation)
I am located in the left upper quadrant (LUQ) of the abdomen.
What is the spleen?
Paralysis and seizures are frequently associated with injury to me. (Name is system)
What is the nervous system?
This is what you should do if you arrive at a home of a hospice patient who is not breathing and does not have a pulse but the family cannot find the patient's DNR form.
What is start CPR, call medical control, and have the family keep looking?
A patient states they were bitten by an unknown insect and is presenting with SOB, wheezing, swollen face and lips, rash and hives on his face and neck. What is going on?
What is anaphylaxis?
Your patient moans to a sternal rub. This is what they are considered on the AVPU scale.
What is alert to pain?
I am the number of vertebra in the cervical spine.
What are 7?
This is how many breaths per minute you should deliver when using a bag-valve-mask (BVM).
What is 10-12 breaths per minute.
I am what happens when the body is subjected to more heat than it can tolerate and normal mechanisms for getting rid of heat are overwhelmed.
What is heatstroke?
This is the adult dose of albuterol.
What is 2.5-5mg.
This is what you should do if you arrive on scene and find your patient is snoring, assuming your scene is safe.
What is open the airway and place an NPA?
I control the voluntary and involuntary functions of the body.
What is the nervous system?
What is proximal?
I am the pumping chamber in the heart that is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to the rest of the body.
What is the left vetricle?
This is where gas exchange in the lungs.
What are the alveoli?
This is defined as "what a reasonably prudent First Responder would do in similar circumstances."
What is Standard of Care?
I am comprised of the following assessments: facial droop, arm drift and abnormal speech.
What is the Cincinnati Stroke Screen?
This is the mnemonic you would use before administering a medication.
What is DRPATS?
I am the 2 most frequent causes of altered mentation.
What are low O2 levels and hypoglycemia?
This is how you know you are providing adequate depth when using a bag-valve-mask (BVM).
What is gentle chest rise?
This is what differentiates between mild and severe hypothermia.
What is altered mental status?
This is the medication class of aspirin that is why we use it for chest pain.
What is antiplatelet aggregate?
When you arrive on scene to a motor vehicle crash involving 6 cars, assuming your scene is safe and you have an additional ambulance and fire truck enroute, this is your first priority.
What is start triage?
I am a type of burn that typically has no pain to the burned areas.
What is Third Degree or Partial Thickness?
Constricted pupils often indicate exposure to this.
What are drugs (opiates)?
The femur.
What is the upper part of the leg/thigh?
This is what happens to breathing as shock progresses.
What is becomes rapid and shallow?
This is the name of the type of consent used when someone is unconscious, incapable of making a decision, or for a child with potentially life-threatening injuries when parents or legal guardians cannot be contacted.
What is implied consent?
This is the best treatment for a patient who has had a seizure.
What is oxygen?
What are disabilities?
I am the organ affected when a patient has hepatitis.
What is the liver?
This is the normal respiratory rate for an adult.
What is 12-20 breaths per minute?
This is when the body is not able to produce enough energy to keep the internal core temperature at a satisfactory level.
What is hypothermia?
This is the medication(s) you should use if you have a patient who is showing signs and symptoms of SLUDGE.
What is DuoDote (atropine and pralidoxime)?
I am what you should do if you arrive on scene to a patient who is breathing 4 times a minute and has pinpoint pupils, after ensuring your scene is safe.
I am the primary muscle of breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
This is the function of performing a primary assessment.
The appendix.
What is the right lower quadrant (RLQ) of the abdomen?
Blood pressure indicates/measures this.
What is cardiovascular status?
This is defined as, "failing to provide the expected standard of care to a patient that leads to further injury."
What is negligence?
SLUDGE is a mnemonic used when patients have been exposed to this.
What is a nerve agent or organophosphates?
This is what you should rule out when presented with a patient exhibiting signs of behavioral emergency.
What is rule out possible medical causes including low O2 levels (hypoxia) and low BGL (hypoglycemia)?
This is the one main advantage of using an NPA versus an OPA.
What is you can place it in a patient with an intact gag reflex?
This is how long someone can be submerged in water 70 degrees or colder and still be considered viable.
What is 60 mins?
This is the medication you would administer to a patient who was stung by a bee and is complaining of shortness of breath, facial swelling and throat tightness.
What is epinephrine?
I am what you should suspect and do if you have a patient with a several day history of shortness of breath, cough, fever and altered mental status. His O2 saturation is 88%.
What is pneumonia and apply enough 02 to increase his O2 saturation to above 90%.
I am fluid in the alveoli.
What is pulmonary edema?
I am the best place to check a pulse in an infant.
What is the brachial artery?
The occiput.
What is the skull?
I am the condition that happens when an artery in the heart is blocked.
What is a myocardial infarction (AMI) or heart attack?
This is the term for when a trained person begins emergency medical care and then leaves the patient before another trained person arrives to take over.
What is abandonment?
This is what you say and ensure has happened before shocking a patient with an AED.
What is "clear!"
This is the mnemonic you would use first when you arrive on scene of a patient who is unconscious.
What is CAB?
I am what you should suspect if your patient presents with shortness of breath, pitting edema in her legs, and crackles in her lungs.
What is congestive heart failure (CHF)?
I am what you should be most concerned with if your patient has a history of asthma and is presenting with extreme shortness of breath.
What is severe airway obstruction of the lungs?
This is the reflex that is triggered when a person is submerged in cold water.
What is the mammalian diving reflex?
This is the pediatric dose of ipratropium.
What is we do not give this medication to pediatric patients?
I am what you should do if you arrive on scene of a stabbing and PD is not yet on scene.
What is call for law enforcement and leave the scene?