Misc 1
The law that states a patient may not be turned away or denied care from a medical facility.
What is EMTALA?
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
When you are off-duty and stop to render care at an accident, you are protected from liability.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
The three layers of the skin.
What are the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous layers?
It’s the only cardiac valve with only 2 leaflets.
What is the bicuspid or mitral valve?
It’s the type of respiratory drive used by patients with severe COPD.
What is the hypoxic drive.
Your positioning of an unresponsive patient with no further need for immediate treatments
What is left lateral recumbent position?
The diaphragm contribute 60-70% of the respiratory effort. These contribute the remaining 30-40%.
What are the intercostal muscles?
Blood loss, fear, and trauma stimulates this part of the nervous system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
An elevated hydrostatic pressure in the lungs can lead to this sound.
What are rales?
Passive immunity comes from this.
What is the mother? (placental or breastfeeding)
The alimentary canal consists of these body parts.
What are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and intestines?
Smooth muscles and glands are enervated by this system.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Preload is the pressure generated in the left ventricle at the end of this phase of the cardiac cycle.
What is diastole? (resting)
EMTs can remove this if they encounter a patient with a plugged tracheostomy tube.
What is the inner cannula?
Wheezes that are isolated to one section of the lung might indicate one of these conditions.
What are infection, obstruction, or a foreign body?
These cardiac valves close at the start of systole.
What are the tricuspid and mitral valves, also known as the atrioventricular valves?
Snoring, gurgling, crowing, or stridor may indicate this.
What are indications for a partially obstructed airway?
A severe head trauma victim might have this heart rate.
What is bradycardia?
These are the “five rights” for med administration.
What are the right: patient, medication, route, dose, and time?
It’s actions stimulate the alpha and beta receptors; part of the sympathetic nervous system
What is epinephrine?
The Frank-Starling law of the heart describes this.
How is the force of contraction related to the stretch caused by the volume of blood in the ventricle?
Baroreceptors are sensitive to this.
What is the stretch caused by blood pressure?
f/u question
The GCS for a 9-month-old who responds to shouting, withdraws from pain, and has inappropriate crying or screaming.
What is 10?
3 – 4 - 3
These monitor the content of oxygen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen ions, and pH in the blood.
What are chemoreceptors?
f/u question
This may be a sign or symptom of neurogenic shock.
What is a lack of motor a/o sensory below the level of a spinal cord injury?