Roles of EMS
EMT Wellbeing
All mixed up
Legal & Ethics
A & P
100
First on scene and includes firefighters and even police officers?
What is Emergency Medical Responder.
100
Removal or cleansing of dangerous chemicals, or infectious materials
What is decontamination?
100
Responsibility of the EMT to provide care
What is duty to act?
100
Verbal or non-verbal consent given by a patient for provision of care or transport
What is "Expressed Consent"?
100
The divisions of the spial column
What is cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx?
200
The first call starts with me...
What is an Emergency Medical Dispatcher?
200
An emergency involving more than one patient or more patients than you have resources for
What is "MCI" or "Mass Casualty Incident"?
200
The manner in which you must act or behave as an EMT
What is standard of care?
200
Farther from the trunk
What is distal?
200
Stick together to form a clot
What are platelets?
300
The number of EMT's required to transport a pt in the state of Ohio?
What is 2.
300
Protects against TB...
What is an N95 mask?
300
"Tachy"
What is fast?
300
Failure to provide the same care that a person with similar training would provide in the same or a similar situation
What is negligence?
300
Adequate supply of oxygen and nutrients to the cells of the body with the removal of waste products
What is perfusion?
400
Definition of the role of EMS?
What is to provide first-aid treatment or life support to sick or injured patients.
400
Attacks your immune system and can be carried through blood
What is HIV/AIDS?
400
Position in which patient is lying on their back
What is supine?
400
Unlawfully placing a person in fear of immediate bodily harm
What is assault?
400
Largest bone in the body
What is the femur?
500
An EMS professional trained in BLS interventions
What is an EMT?
500
What is the Symbol for medical biohazard?
500
Abdominal quadrant where liver is located
What are the upper right and upper left quadrants?
500
Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment
What is "Implied Consent"?
500
The air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange takes place
What are the alveoli?
600
Recertification happens every ______
What is every 3 years?
600
The spread of infection through and inanimate object
What is indirect contact?
600
The unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient's consent and without making provisions for continued care
What is abandonment?
600
False, injurious information in written form
What is "Libel"?
600
Hypoperfusion
What is shock?