OPs
This is how often an EMT should assess their vehicle readiness.
What is daily and after every emergency?
A swelling or enlargement of the wall of a blood vessel that results from weakening of the vessel wall.
What is an aneurysm?
The ability of a patient to ask for transport but not treatment.
What is consent?
Any material that emits radiation.
What is radioactive material?
This is what an EMT should do when treating a patient with a bee sting.
What is remove the stinger.
This occurs when the tires of a vehicle re lifted off the road surface as a result of water piling up underneath them.
What is hydroplaning?
This is when a patient can be transported during a hazardous event.
What is after decontamination?
The action an EMT takes with an injured child with no parents present.
What is treat and transport?
Injuries caused by an explosive pressure wave to the hollow organs of the body.
What is a primary blast injury?
This is what an EMT should do when they show up on the scene of an electrician who has been electrocuted by wires in a circuit breaker box and see the patient is still in contact with the wires.
What is shut off the power to the wires or have someone shut off the power before administering patient care.
This is type of crash the ambulances are most often involved in on their way to or from a scene.
What are intersection collisions?
A grating or grinding sensation or sound caused by fractured bone ends or joints rubbing together.
What is crepitus?
This is the action taken by an EMT when a DNR is in place according to the caregiver, but can not be produced.
What is treat?
Any agent designed to bring about mass death, casualties, and/or massive damage to property and infrastructure.
What is a weapon of mass destruction?
This is a an injury to the dermis and underlying tissues caused by freezing temperatures.
What is frostbite?
A process such as heating that removes microbial contamination.
What is sterilization?
This is a word used for black, foul-smelling, tarry stool containing digest blood.
What is melena?
This is allowed only when the patient is a threat to themselves or others.
What is using forceable restraint.
An agent that affects the body's ability to use oxygen. It is a colorless gas that has na odor similar to almonds.
What is cyanide?
This is a common name for decompression sickness that a scuba diver may develop from ascending to the surface too fast.
What is the bends?
This is the one vehicle that an ambulance cannot pass at anytime, even in and emergent case with lights and sirens.
What is a school bus that has their flashing lights on in and indication of loading or unloading children?
This means weakness on one side of the body.
What is hemiparesis?
The law that provides legal protection for people who give reasonable care to those who need assistance.
What is the Good Samaritan law?
A class of chemical called organophosphates; they function by blocking an essential enzyme in the nervous system which causes the body's organs to become overstimulated and burn out.
What roe nerve agents?
This is a life-threatening condition of severe hyperthermia caused by exposure to excessive heat and is marked by warm, dry skin, severely altered mental status and can lead to irreversible coma.
What is heat stroke?