Firstquarterstudy Flashcards
What do you do if you have been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor as a EMT candidate?
One of the primary responsibilities of each state is to ensure the safety of its residents. As such, states have requirements prohibiting people with certain legal infractions from becoming EMS providers. The specific legal exclusions, either misdemeanors and/or felonies, are created on a state-by-state basis. Contact your state EMS office for more information
Why are EMR’s an important part of the EMS system?
An EMR has basic emergency care and operations training, and is focused on managing the emergency scene and initiating immediate life-sacing care before the ambulance arrives.
What types of skills would a layperson be trained in?
CPR and AED use
What is the EMS medical director responsible for?
Authorizes the EMTs in the service to provide medical care in the field.
To ensure proper training standards are met, the medical director determines and approves the continuing education and training that are required of each EMT in the service.
The medical director is responsible for maintaining quality control.
How does an EMT transfer patient care?
Excellent verbal communication is also an integral part if transferring the patients care to the nurses and physicians at the hospital.
Documentation also provides an opportunity to communicate the patients story to others who may participate in the patients care in the future. Adequate reporting and accurate records ensure the continuity of patient care. Complete patient records also facilitate transfer of care, transfer of responsibility, and help comply with requirements of health departments and law enforcement agencies, as well as fulfill your organizations administrative needs.
Nowhere is communication more important than during patient care handover, often called handoff.
“Giving the handover report”
Initiate eye contact
Manage the environment
Ensure the ABCs
Provide a structured report (think the SBAT format, situation, background, assessment , treatment)
Provide documentation
Provide
The __ part if the body, or any body part, is the portion nearer to the head from a specific reference point. Above a body part or nearer to the head
Superior
The part nearer to the feet is the __ portion. Below a body part or nearer to the feet
Inferior
Parts of the body that lie farther from the midline, are called __(outer) structures.
Lateral
The parts that lie closer to the midline are called __(inner) structures
Medial
The terms __ and __ are used to describe the relationship of any two structures on an extremity.
Proximal and distal
__ describes structures that are closer to the trunk
Proximal
__ describes structures that are father from the trunk or nearer to the free end of the extremity
Distal
Many structures of the body occur __. A body party that appears in both sides of the midline is __. For example, the eyes, ears, hands, and feet are __ structures, meaning there is one on each side of the midline. This is also true for structures inside the body, such as the lungs and kidneys
Bilateral
Something that appears in only one side of the body is said to occur__. For example, __ chest expansion means that only one lung is expanding with inhalation(such as with a pneumothorax). Pain that occurs on only one side of the body could be called __ pain
Unilateral
The motion of the portion of the chest wall that is detached in a flail chest; the motion in during inhalation, out during exhalation —is exactly the opposite of normal chest wall motion during breathing
Paradoxical motion
What is the ratio of oxygen percentage you breathe in compared to what you breath out
The air you breathe is 21% oxygen, and the air you exhale is 16% oxygen. This means there is only a 5% margin of safety for oxygen concentration in the air you breathe
The lower part of the back, formed by the lowest five nonfused vertebrae; also called the dorsal spine
Lumbar spine (5)
The 12 vertebrae that lie between the cervical vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae. One pair of ribs is attached to each of these vertebrae
Thoracic spine (12)
One of three bones ( sacrum and two pelvic bones ) that make up the pelvic ring; consists of five fused sacral vertebrae
Sacrum
The five __ vertebrae are fused together to form one bone called the sacrum.
Sacral vertebrae (5)
The last four vertebrae, also fused together, form the __, or tailbone
Coccyx (4)
The shinbone; the larger of the two bones of the lower leg
Tibia
The lower leg comprises two bones: the tibia and the fibula. The larger of the two, the__ (shinbone), articulates with the inferior end of the femur at the knee joint. It is positioned on the medial side of the lower leg and can be palpated along its entire length on the anterior surface of the leg, just beneath the skin.
tibia
The anterior side of the knee is covered by a specialized bone called the _
Patella (kneecap)