Human Body
Med Terminology
Transport OPS
Medical, Legal, Ethical issues
MISC
100
Consists of the nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx, and larynx.
What is the upper airway?
100
-itis
What is inflammation?
100
The best place to park the ambulance
What is uphill and upwind?
100
Any information about health status, provision of healthcare, or payment for health care the can be linked to an individual.
What is Protected Health Information?
100
The most important section of the Patient Care Report (PCR).
What is a narrative?
200
Is the process of gas exchange in the lungs.
What is respiration?
200
Prefix that means difficult, painful, abnormal.
What is Dys-?
200
This phase of the ambulance call is where you check your rig, equipment, and supplies.
What is the preparation phase?
200
An individual's responsibility to provide patient care.
What is Duty to Act?
200
May develop after a person has experienced a psychologically distressing event.
What is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
300
The superior edge of this forms a landmark called the sternal notch.
What is the manubrium?
300
PEEP
What is positive end expiratory pressure?
300
This phase of the ambulance call where you provide a bedside report to the receiving ER Physician or RN taking over care for the patient.
What is the delivery phase?
300
A common law principle that when you reasonably help another person, you should not be liable for errors and omission that are in giving good-faith emergency care.
What is the Good Samaritan law?
300
What is the Star of Life?
400
The name of the gland that secretes both insulin and glucagon.
The Islet of Langerhans
400
-phasia
What is pertaining to speech?
400
During the 1700s, Napoleon Bonaparte commissioned the development of these to remove injured personnel from the battlefield.
What are horse-drawn ambulances/carts?
400
The failure to provide the same care that a person with similar training would provide in the same or similar situation.
What is Negligence?
400
Entity that has been collecting prehospital care information for research purposes since the early 1970's.
What is NEMSIS?
500
The part of the nervous system that regulates or controls our voluntary activities.
What is the somatic (voluntary) nervous system?
500
The root "Leuko"
What is the color white?
500
Document that describes ambulances which are authorized to display the "Star of Life" symbol.
What is the KKK-A-1822 F SPECS?
500
Is a written document that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient, should he or she become unable to make decisions.
What is an advanced directive?
500
Is a way for team members to work together with the team leader to develop and maintain a shared understanding of the emergency situation.
What is Crew Resource Management (CRM)?