BONES & JOINTS
These two bones make up the forearm.
What are the radius and ulna?
Together, these two structures form the central nervous system.
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
Lift with these — not with your back.
What are your legs?
The three categories of patient moves.
What are emergency, urgent, and non-urgent?
This suffix means inflammation.
What is -itis?
Treating an unconscious patient with a serious head injury relies on this type of consent.
What is implied consent?
The bones that make up the fingers and toes.
What are the phalanges?
The liver produces bile — this organ concentrates and stores it.
What is the gallbladder?
Palms up, all fingers at the same angle, hands about 10 inches apart.
What is the power grip?
Emergency drags are performed along this axis of the body.
What is the long axis?
What a patient with hepatomegaly has.
What is an enlarged liver?
All four of these elements are required to prove negligence.
What are duty, breach, causation, and damages?
A dietary deficiency in this mineral leaves bone brittle and easily fractured.
What is calcium?
These cell fragments are responsible for the initial formation of a blood clot.
What are platelets?
Even with a textbook-straight back, you can still injure yourself by bending forward here.
What are the hips?
One rescuer at the shoulders, one at the knees — the move of choice in a narrow hallway with no suspected spinal injury.
What is the extremity lift?
The prefixes brady- and tachy- describe these.
What are slow and fast?
Terminating care without transferring the patient to an equal or higher level of provider.
What is abandonment?
The femoral head seats into this socket of the pelvis to form a ball-and-socket joint.
What is the acetabulum?
Protection, temperature regulation, sensation, and fluid balance are all functions of this organ.
What is the skin?
The farthest you should reach in front of your body while lifting
What is about 20 inches?
A patient who has passed out in a safe living room with no hazards does not qualify for this.
What is an emergency move?
A patient with nephropathy has disease of this organ — and would receive this class of drug for the pain.
What are the kidney and an analgesic?
The one circumstance under which forcible restraint is permitted.
What is when the patient poses a significant threat to self or others?
All five regions of the spinal column. List each region and how many in each region.
What are 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, and 4 coccygeal?
This space behind the abdominal cavity holds the kidneys, pancreas, and abdominal aorta.
What is the retroperitoneal space?
Whenever you have the choice, do this to a load instead of pulling it.
What is push it?
Altered mental status, inadequate ventilation, or shock call for this category of move.
What is an urgent move?
The term for a patient who has given birth more than once.
What is multiparous?
Rigor mortis, dependent lividity, and decapitation all belong to this category of finding.
What are definitive signs of death?