Foundations
Chapters 1-3
Chapters 1-3
The person legally responsible for the clinical and patient care aspects of an EMS system.
What is the Medical Director?
The plane that separates the body into left and right halves
What is the midsagittal (or median) plane?
The first step of the primary assessment
What is checking for responsiveness (or form a general impression)?
The maximum time allowed for suctioning an adult patient.
What is 15 seconds?
"Sweet" or fruity breath odor is a sign of this endocrine emergency
What is Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)?
The first and most important priority for an EMT at any scene.
What is personal safety?
The term used to describe a structure closer to the torso.
What is proximal?
The "S" in SAMPLE history.
What are signs and symptoms?
The maneuver used to open the airway of a patient with suspected spinal trauma.
What is the jaw-thrust maneuver?
The condition where a coronary artery is totally occluded, or demand exceeds supply, causing pain.
What is acute coronary syndrome (Angina/AMI)?
A strict form of infection control based on the assumption that all blood and body fluids are infectious.
What are Standard Precautions?
This organ produces insulin to regulate blood glucose.
What is the pancreas?
A patient who opens their eyes to pain, speaks incomprehensible words, and withdraws from pain has a GCS of this.
What is 9?
A high-pitched upper airway sound indicative of obstruction
What is stridor?
The triad of signs including bradycardia, hypertension, and erratic respirations, indicating increased ICP.
What is Cushing’s Triad?
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 specialized muscle tissue of the heart that has the property of automaticity.
What is the myocardium?
The proper method for lifting a stretcher to protect your back
What is the power lift (or power grip)?
The dose of epinephrine in an adult auto-injector
What is 0.3 mg?
An incident where a patient has multiple seizures without regaining consciousness.
What is status epilepticus?
The four components needed to prove negligence in a court of law.
What are Duty to Act, Breach of Duty, Damages, and Proximate Cause?
A state of inadequate tissue perfusion, where oxygen demand exceeds supply.
What is shock (hypoperfusion)?
The definition of "trending" when taking vital signs.
What are the changes in a patient's condition over time?
The medication that acts as a suspension to bind poisons in the GI tract.
What is activated charcoal?
A stroke caused by a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?