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Airway: Open,Clear, Maintainable, No Need For Suction?
Breathing: Rate, Ease, Depth, Oxygen
Circulation: Rate,Rhytm, Strength
Carotid and Radial Pulse
Skin Signs: Color, Moisture, Tempature. |
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Alert
Verabl Response
Painful Stimuli
Unresponsive |
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| Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transfered to someone with equal or greater medical training |
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| Body stands erect facing the observer arms down at sides palms forward |
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| Front of the body or body part |
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| Forcing air or oxygen into the lungs when a patient has stopped breathing or had inadequate breathing. |
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| Injury caused by a blow that does not penetrate the skin or other body tissue |
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| System made up of the heart and the blood vessels |
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| A surgical opening in the wall of the abdomen with a bag in place to collect waste from the digestive system |
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| Not to reveal info about a patient |
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| Permission from the patient for care or other action byt the EMT |
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| The grinding sound oor feeling of broken bones rubbing togeather |
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| Blue or gray color resulting from lack of oxygen in the body |
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Deformaties
Contusions
Abrasions
Punctures
Burns
Tenderness
Laceration
Swelling |
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| Patient has terminal illness and does not wish to prolong lide through resuscitative efforts |
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| Areas of the lungs outside the alveoli where gas exchanges where the blood does not take place |
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| a very carefull detailed assesment of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities, and postierior of the body to detect signs and symptoms of injuries. |
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| Condition of bending, stretched, inflated or larger than normal |
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| Obligation to provide care to a patient |
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| Consent given by adults who are of legal age and mentally comptent to make a rational decision in regard to their medical well-being |
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| Vomiting or retaking that results when something is placed in the back of the pharynx |
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| Impression of patient as you approach |
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Health Insurance Portability and acountability Act
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Protects privacy of patient and specific heath care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is issued and distributed |
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| Tilting head back and lifiting the chin, non-trauma or injury |
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| Insufficiency of oxygen in body's tissue |
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| consent presumed a patient or patients paren or guardian would give if they could |
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| Awareness that there may be injuries |
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G.I
M.S
L.O.C
ABC's
Priority |
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| Actions taken to correct a patients problem |
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| Move Jaw forward without tilting the head or neck incase of trauma injuries. |
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| Bulgining of the Neck Veins |
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| to the side or away from the midline of the body |
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| Being held legally responsible |
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| toward the midline of the body |
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| Line drawn vertically from the middle of the armpit to the ankle |
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| line through the center of each clavical |
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| imaginary line drawn down the center of the body dividing it into right and left halves |
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| Amount of air breathed in during each respiration multiplied by the number of breath per minute. |
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Emergency Involving Multiple Patients
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| What is medically wrong with a patient |
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| Finding og failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act |
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Person Pertective Equipment
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Protects EMS worker from infection and or exposure to the dangers |
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| Movement of a part of the chest in the opposite direction to the rest of the chest during respiration. |
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| Organisms that cause infection |
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| Injury caused by an object that pases through the skin or other body tissues |
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| Supply of oxygen to and removal of wastes from the cells and tissue of the body as a result of the flow of blood through capillaries |
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| Positive Pressure Ventilation |
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| Back of the body or body part |
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| Bulky dressing held in position with a tightly wrapped bandage to apply pressure to help control bleeding |
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| Points on body that lye on a main artery |
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| Persistant erection of the penis that may result from spinal injury and some medical problems |
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| Fast assesment of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities, and postierior of the body to detect signs and symptoms of any life threatening imjuries. |
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Increased work of breathing
And
Shortness of breath |
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| Reduction of breathing to the point where oxygen intake is not sufficient to support life |
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Signs and Symptoms
Allergies
Medications recently Taking
Previous Important History
Last oral Intake
Events leading to.... |
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| Set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope or extent and limits of the EMTs job |
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| Indicator of patient's conditon that is objective |
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| Form of infaction control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious |
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A policy or protocols issued by a Medical Director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certain situations |
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| Surgical opening in the neck through which the patient breathes |
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| Example: Pain cant be seen only felt. |
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| Vaccume device to remove blood, vomit, and other secreting from airway |
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| Indication of a patient's condition that cannot be observed by another person. Subjective. |
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| Breathing in of air or oxygen or providing breaths aartifically |
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| force or forces that may have caused injury |
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