Intro to EMS
What is the minimum level of certification required of ambulance personnel responsible for direct patient care?
What is EMT?
What is a common term used to describe the items needed for Standard Precautions or body substance isolation precautions?
What is PPE?
What has the largest muscles in the body and should be utilized the most when lifting?
What is a legal directive to withhold defined resuscitation efforts called?
What is a DNR?
The wrist is _______ to the elbow.
What is distal?
What level of emergency medical training provides the most advanced pre-hospital care?
What is Paramedic?
A family member who keeps pleading with a deceased loved one to "wake up" is experiencing which reaction to death and dying?
What is denial?
You and your partner respond to a call and realize that the patient weighs 400 lbs and cannot lift him by yourselves. What should you do?
What is call for more manpower?
What is a verbal statement that damages another persons reputation?
What is slander?
What does the prefix tachy stand for?
What is "fast"?
-Also accept rapid-
In 1966 the National Highway Safety Act charged which of the following agencies with the development of emergency medical service standards?
What is Department of Transportation (DOT)?
The term burnout is also known as a(n) ________ stress reaction.
What is cumulative?
Cumulative stress reaction
What is the preferred number of rescuers when using a stair chair?
What is three?
ALWAYS HAVE A SPOTTER!
Which type of consent must be used by the EMT when seeking to treat a mentally competent adult?
What is expressed consent?
What position is defined as a patient that is seated with her legs either straight or bent in front of her?
What is the Fowlers position?
Which of the following best describes a communication system capable of identifying the number and location of the phone from which a caller is calling?
What is enhanced 911?
Which of the following pathogens can live in dried blood for days and should be a major concern for EMS providers even while cleaning contaminated equipment?
What is Hepatitis B?
Where should you position the weight of the object being lifted?
What is closest to your body?
The EMT's obligation to provide care to a patient either as a formal or ethical responsibility is known as what?
What is duty to act?
How would a patient lie if they were in the lateral recumbent position?
What is on their side?
Who assumes the ultimate responsibility for patient care rendered by the EMT?
Who is Medical Director?
What are the minimum Standard Precautions an EMT should take when transporting a patient infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)?
What is Gloves, Gown, N-95, and Goggles (or eye protection)?
*must get all four pieces for points*
You and your partner respond for the cardiac arrest. When you arrive on scene you notice poor CPR being performed with the patient still laying on the bed. You decide to move the patient to the ground, what kind of move is this called?
What is emergency move?
This law protects people who are trying to help in an emergency
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
What is the distinction between anatomy and physiology?
Anatomy is the study of the body structure, organs, and systems.
physiology is the study of the action of the anatomy.