Ch. 5 Flashcards
When providing patient care, it is MOST important that you maintain effective communication with: Select one: A: The dispatcher B: Bystanders C: Your partner D: Medical control
Your partner
If you want reliable answers to personal questions, you should:
Manage the scene so you can ask questions quietly and privately
Biotelemetry is MOST accurately described as:
The capability to measure vital signs and ECG tracings and transmit them to a distant terminal.
At a minimum, sending the 12-lead ECG of a patient with chest pain to the emergency department physician via telemetry would:
Decrease the time from diagnosis to treatment.
The term “frequency” as it applies to radio communications, is MOST accurately described as:
The number of oscillations per second of the carrier wave.
When communicating medical information via radio, you should be:
Simple, brief, and direct.
When a caller requests EMS in an area that uses an enhanced 9-1-1 system:
The caller’s name and address are automatically displayed.
Under the instruction of a good EMD, a layperson should be able to:
Perform chest compressions.
When transmitting information by radio, you should:
Use a normal conversational voice.
When communicating with a patient whose cultural background differs from the paramedic’s, the paramedic should:
Treat the patient with the utmost respect.
Mobile transceivers:
Can have a line-of-sight range of up to 15 miles.
A (BLANK) receives a weak signal and retransmits it at higher power on another frequency.
Repeater
If the EMD suspects that your patient has a life-threatening emergency, the EMD should make you aware of the situation and then:
Give pre-arrival instructions to the caller.
Repeating the key parts of a patient’s responses to your questions demonstrates:
Active listening
