Emt Basic Chapter 1-6

Front 1

A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and in providing callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.

Back 1

Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD)

Front 2

A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS System

Back 2

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

Front 3

The responsibility of the medical director to ensure the appropriate care standards are me by EMTB on each call

Back 3

Quality Control

Front 4

The designated area in which EMS service is responsible for the provision of prehospital care emergency care and transport

Back 4

Primary Service Area (PSA)

Front 5

Potential life threatening disease that usually start with Flu like symptoms

Back 5

SARS (Severe Acute respiratory Syndrome)

Front 6

A comprehensive plan that helps employees to reduce their risk of exposure to or acquisition of communicable diseases

Back 6

exposure control plan

Front 7

A process that confront the response to critical incidents and defuses them, directing the emergency personnel toward physical and emotional balance

Back 7

Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)

Front 8

The organism or individual that is attacked by the infecting agent

Back 8

Host

Front 9

The strength or ability of a pathogen to produce disease

Back 9

Virulence

Front 10

A disease caused bu infection

Back 10

Infections disease

Front 11

Any disease that can be spread from person to person, animal to person

Back 11

Communicable Disease

Front 12

The body's three stage response to stress: First stress causes the body to trigger and alarm response, and then recovery, or if the stress is prolonged, exhaustion.

Back 12

General Adaption Syndrome

Front 13

unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm

Back 13

Assult

Front 14

basing current action on lessons, rules, or guidelines derived from previous similar experiences

Back 14

Precedence

Front 15

A written document that specifies medical treatment should a patient become unable to make decisions - living will

Back 15

advance directives

Front 16

A term relating to medical jurisprudence (law) or forensic medicine

Back 16

medicolegal

Front 17

Circulation of blood within an organ or tissue

Back 17

perfusion

Front 18

blood presser that is below normal range

Back 18

hypotension

Front 19

narrowing of the blood vessels

Back 19

vasoconstriction

Front 20

Subjective findings that the patient feels but only identified by the patient

Back 20

symptoms

Front 21

the delicate membrane lining of the eye lids

Back 21

conjunctiva

Front 22

breathing that occurs with no aissitance

Back 22

spontaneous respirations

Front 23

Characterized by profuse sweating

Back 23

diaphoretic

Front 24

an unusually upright position in which the patients head chin are thrust slightly forward

Back 24

sniffing position

Front 25

A technique used to move a patient from siting position inside vehicle to supine position in less than 1 minute

Back 25

Rapid extrication technique

Front 26

A lifting technique used for patients found lying on the ground and have no suspected spinal injury

Back 26

Direct ground lift

Front 27

A move which the patient is dragged or pulled from the scene before initial assessment and care provided

Back 27

Emergency move

Front 28

lifiting technique used for patients in supine or sitting position and with no suspected extremity or spinal injuries

Back 28

extremity lift

Front 29

The part of the nervous system that regulates functions such as digestion and sweating, not controlled voluntarily

Back 29

Autonomic Nervous System

Front 30

The muscles on the side of the neck that allow movement of the head

Back 30

sternocleidomastoid muscles

Front 31

protein catalyst designed to speed up the rate of specific biochemical reactions

Back 31

enzymens

Front 32

Tiny disc shaped elements smaller than cells and stops bleeding

Back 32

platelets