Health & Safety Flashcards
List the components of a balances, healthy lifestyle
Cardiovascular endurance, strength and flexibility, nutrition, weight control, disease prevention,
freedom from harmful habits and addictions and back safety
Define stress:
A hardship or strain; a physical or psychological arousal to stimulus
Define stress disorder:
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); mental health condition triggered by a terrifying event
Discuss techniques to manage stress:
Controlled breathing, deal with negative thoughts, attend to medical needs to the patient
What is critical incident stress management?
A system of related interventions usually preformed by specifically trained mental health workers.
List the effects of shift work on physical and mental health:
Sleep deprivation, GI symptoms, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression, pregnancy
complications, and cancer
Describe the physical capabilities required of a paramedic:
Cardiovascular endurance, strength and flexibility, nutrition and weigh control, disease prevention, back
safety, no harmful addictions.
Define safe body mechanics:
Is the safest and most efficient method of using your body to gain a mechanical advantage
List strategies used to reduce risk of injury:
Protection of EMS (BSI), education of EMS, data collection (records of illness/injuries, financial support (donations), empowerment of EMS provider
List equipment for patient transfer:
Stretchers, stair chair, scoop, short backboard, long backboard, ked
Explain techniques of patient transfer using specific equipment:
Sheets, keds, spine board
Describe emergency lifting techniques:
Shirt drag, shoulder and forearm drag, firefighter drags, piggyback, crutch, cradle carry, sheet drag
Define scene safety:
Doing everything possible to ensure a safe environment
Describe factors contributing to scene safety:
You, your crew, responding personnel, your patients, bystanders, people’s behaviour, surroundings, bystanders information
List potential occupational hazards:
Infection/contamination, physical injury, stress, burnout, driving hazards
Describe basic, non-mechanical patient extraction:
Non mechanical patient extrication does not include motorized equipment such as firefighter pincers,
Jaws of Life, ext.
Describe methods of diffusing
Use appropriate tone and volume, active listening, empathy not sympathy, refrain from using emotional responses, apologize when warranted
Describe methods of self protection:
BSI: Body substance Isolation – goggles, gloves, hazmat gear, helmet, mask, respirator
What is Hazmat and WHMIS:
Hazmat – hazardous material
WHMIS – Workplace hazardous materials information system
Describe common routes for transmissions of disease and infection:
Direct – direct contact, droplet spread
Indirect – airborne, vehicle route, vector borne (mechanical, biological)
Define infection control precautions:
BSI (protective gloves, masks, protective eyewear, HEPA, gowns), disposable resuscitation devices
Describe the appropriate procedures for the disposal of sharps and contaminated supplies:
By law, every medical organization which have biological hazards must have a biological exposure plan. Sharps container, biohazard bag, container.
Describe techniques used to clean and disinfect:
Clean – refers to washing an object with soap and water
Disinfecting – includes cleaning with a disinfecting agent, which should kill many microorganisms on the surface of an object.
