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What are the Four Types of Transmission?

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  1. Direct Contact
  2. Indirect Contact
  3. Airborne
  4. Vectorborne
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What causes a puncture wound?

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  1. Used Needles
  2. Glass or sharp objects
  3. Human Bites
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How do you handle an exposure incident?

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  1. Soap and Water
  2. Fill out an exposure form
  3. Go to a Hospital
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Who’s safety is first?

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Officers Safety

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What are the general principles to first responder?

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  1. To Cause no Further harm
  2. Move the patient only when necessary
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What is a Traumatic injury?

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  1. Head injury
  2. Neck injury
  3. Spine Injury
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When do you use a cervical collar?

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For a head, neck and spine injury

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What is the principle of care?

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To provide care in good faith and to do no further harm

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What is the Duty to Act?

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To render emergency medical care at a scene of an incident or illness.
You are vulnerable to legal action if you fail to act.

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What are the Types of consent for treatment

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  1. Expressed Consent
  2. Informed Consent
  3. Implied consent
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What is Expressed consent?

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Verbal or nonverbal consent

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What is informed consent?

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The Patient understand who you are, what you want to do and what has happened and allows you to treat them

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What is Implied Consent?

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Person is unconscious or does not specifically refuse emergency care

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What is a MOLST/DNR?

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A Do Not Resuscitate form, but must be present because if its not or if its not current and valid, you must begin resuscitation

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What are the Signs of a person dead at scene?

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Decapitation
Rigor Mortis
Tissue decompensation
Dependent Lividity
(Obvious signs of death)

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What is Negligence?

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When a Patient sub-stains further injury or harm as the care administered did not meet the standards of care.
By failure to act, breach of duty, resulting injuries or proximate cause

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What is confidentiality?

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Information that should only be shared with other medical personnel who are involved with the patients care.
Such as
-Patient circumstances
-Patient History
- Assessment findings
- Patient care given

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What is MGL 111c Section 21?

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Good faith performance of duties and limitation on personal liability.

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What Radio communications should be given to dispatch at a scene of injury?

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  1. Age and Sex of Patient
  2. Chief Complaint
  3. Level of Responsiveness
  4. Status of airway, breathing and Circulation (CAB)
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What should you give to EMTS upon arrival?

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A verbal Hand off report, such as what you gave dispatch

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Where can Support dogs go?

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Hotels, Motels Restaurants, anywhere a person needs help and requires there animal.

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how should documentation be?

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Clear, Concise, Accurate, Readable

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What is the Best of Ability?

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The standard of Care

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What are the Two types of ways to open an airway?

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  1. Head Tilt Chin Lift
  2. Jaw Thrust Maneuver
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When do you use the Head Tilt Chin Lift?
For CPR
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What is CPR
No Normal Breathing, No Pulse
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How to you take a Pulse
1. Carotid Artery 2. Radial
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How do you check a Babies Pulse
Brachial
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When do you use the Jaw Thrust Maneuver?
For a Head, Neck and Spine Injury and allow breathing
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How do you measure an Oral Airway?
Mouth To ear, Used to maintain Patients Airway for Unconscious Patients
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How do you measure a nasal Airway?
From Tip of Nose to Earlobe Can be used on unconscious or conscious patients
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How do you check the signs of adequate breathing?
1. Look 2. Listen 3. Feel
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What is a Normal Oxygen Level
95%-100%
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What is a normal pulse?
60-100
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What is a normal temperature?
98.5F/37C
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What is the AVPU Scale?
1. Awake and Alert 2. Responsive and Verbal 3. Responsive to Pain' 4. Unresponsive
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What is the Primary Assessment?
Based on CAB and the AVPU Scale, where you also check for a pulse and if you have to do the head tilt chin lift or Jaw thrust maneuver Life threatening conditions!
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What is the average breaths per minute?
12-20
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What is a Sign?
Something you can See or Feel
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What is a Symptom?
Something a person tells you
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What are the Factors of History Taking (SAMPLE)
1. Signs and Symptoms 2. Allergies 3. Medications 4. Pertinent Past Medical History 5. Last Oral Intake 6. Events leading to injury or illness
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What is DOTS?
1. Deformities 2. Open Injuries 3. Tenderness 4. Swelling Used for secondary assessment for non life threatening conditions!
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What is a secondary Assessment?
Using DOTS Non- Life threatening injuries Look at Eyes, Nose, Mouth Count patients breaths for 1 minute, should be 12-20 Check Capillary Refill SAMPLE
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What is a Normal Blood Pressure?
120/80
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What are types of eyes you can see in an assessment?
Constricted- Narcotics Dilated Un-unequal- Head Trauma
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How should you conduct a reassesment?
15 Minutes for a Stable Patient 5 For an Unstable Patient
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What should you assume about a patient with an illness?
That they are contagious
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What is Angina Pectoris?
Inadequate blood flow and oxygen to heart
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What is a heart attack?
One or more of the coronary arteries are blocked
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What is congestive heart failure?
Failure of the heart to pump blood adequately
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What is the stroke scale?
FAST-ED Facial droop Arm Drift Speech Time Eye deviation Denial
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What is the point of the recovery postion?
To stop fluids from entering the tracheal
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What is diabetes?
Bodies inability to process and use glucose
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What is insulin shock?
Occurs when the body has enough insulin. but not enough blood glucose
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What is the Patient Assessment for poisoning?
Ingestion Inhalation Injection Absorption
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What is epinephrin?
Medication that reverses effects of allergic reaction
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What is anaphylaxis?
Swelling to lips, eyes and tongue
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When can you use an Epi-Pen?
For life threatening allergic reactions!
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Can you use a persons Epi Pen?
YES
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What is a heat Cramp?
Involuntary spasms of the muscles
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What is heat Exhaustion?
When a person is exposed to temperatures greater than 80F Profuse Sweating Nausea Weak Pulse/ low blood pressure
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What is a heat stroke?
When your body is subjected to more heat then you can handle, excess of 106F of your own body heat
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What is Frostbite?
Body being too cold, losing circulation to areas like hands, feet, face, ears Best way of prevention is to prevent it before it happens
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What is hypothermia?
When your body temp drops below 95F, and your body can not produce enough heat for normal function Best way of prevention is to prevent it before it happens

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