SKI PATROL UPDATED TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Assumption of risk - ✔✔- Skiers/riders agree that the sport is dangers
- Documentation for liability purposes
✔✔4 types of consent - ✔✔Expressed, implied, informed, minor
✔✔Expressed consent - ✔✔patient directly gives permission
✔✔Implied conseny - ✔✔Inferred by patient's actions/situation
✔✔Informed consent - ✔✔permission upon further explanation (facts, implications,
consequences)
✔✔Minor consent - ✔✔parent/guardian gives permission
✔✔Battery - ✔✔Act of touching someone without their consent
✔✔Assault - ✔✔Placing someone in a position where they reasonably fear that battery
will occur
✔✔Emergency Care System - ✔✔A network of specially trained personnel, equipment,
facilities, and other resources that respond to medical emergencies
✔✔EMS - ✔✔Rescue operations, pre-hospital care, ambulances, education, etc.
✔✔6 attributes of EMS - ✔✔1. Integration of Health Services
2. Human Resources
3. Education Systems
4. Prevention
5. Communication Systems
6. Clinical care
✔✔Levels of Emergency Personnel - ✔✔EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic
✔✔EMR - ✔✔- first responder
- immediate treatment
- limited resources
✔✔EMT - ✔✔- basic life support
- administer medication
- transport
, ✔✔AEMT - ✔✔- same as EMT but intermediate life support (ambulance)
✔✔Paramedic - ✔✔- highest level of care
- advanced equipment and medications
✔✔What's Important in EMS? - ✔✔1. Commonality
2. Precision (with regard to injury description)
3. Communication
4. Documentation
✔✔Medical Oversight - ✔✔Direct: Licensed physician provides oversight of patient care
Indirect: Pre-hospital providers don't need to contact a physician before providing care
✔✔3 types of quality improvement - ✔✔1. prospective: preventing problems
2. concurrent: taking action while tasks are being performed
3. retrospective: ways to improve in the future
✔✔Temperature Regulation - ✔✔- Conduction: transfer of heat through direct contact
- Convection: exchange of heat when a gas or liquid moves past the surface of an
object
- Radiation: energy exchange in waves through space
- Evaporation: heat exchange when liquid converts to gas
- Always from warmer object to cooler
✔✔Homeostasis - ✔✔Body's ability to regulate its inner environment to ensure stability
and to respond to changes in the outside environment
✔✔Fight or Flight Response - ✔✔Function of autonomic nervous system
- release of epinephrine/adrenaline
- elevated heart rate/blood pressure
- pupil dilation
- increased respiratory rate
✔✔Immune Response - ✔✔the state of being protected from a disease
- pathogens cause disease/illness
- immune system produces antibodies
✔✔Factors in Working Outdoors - ✔✔1. Environmental Conditions
2. Mental Preparedness
3. Physical fitness
4. Proper equipment
5. Hydration
6. Prolonged rescue response preparation
✔✔5 ways to transmit infectious diseases - ✔✔1. Direct contact (person to person)
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Assumption of risk - ✔✔- Skiers/riders agree that the sport is dangers
- Documentation for liability purposes
✔✔4 types of consent - ✔✔Expressed, implied, informed, minor
✔✔Expressed consent - ✔✔patient directly gives permission
✔✔Implied conseny - ✔✔Inferred by patient's actions/situation
✔✔Informed consent - ✔✔permission upon further explanation (facts, implications,
consequences)
✔✔Minor consent - ✔✔parent/guardian gives permission
✔✔Battery - ✔✔Act of touching someone without their consent
✔✔Assault - ✔✔Placing someone in a position where they reasonably fear that battery
will occur
✔✔Emergency Care System - ✔✔A network of specially trained personnel, equipment,
facilities, and other resources that respond to medical emergencies
✔✔EMS - ✔✔Rescue operations, pre-hospital care, ambulances, education, etc.
✔✔6 attributes of EMS - ✔✔1. Integration of Health Services
2. Human Resources
3. Education Systems
4. Prevention
5. Communication Systems
6. Clinical care
✔✔Levels of Emergency Personnel - ✔✔EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic
✔✔EMR - ✔✔- first responder
- immediate treatment
- limited resources
✔✔EMT - ✔✔- basic life support
- administer medication
- transport
, ✔✔AEMT - ✔✔- same as EMT but intermediate life support (ambulance)
✔✔Paramedic - ✔✔- highest level of care
- advanced equipment and medications
✔✔What's Important in EMS? - ✔✔1. Commonality
2. Precision (with regard to injury description)
3. Communication
4. Documentation
✔✔Medical Oversight - ✔✔Direct: Licensed physician provides oversight of patient care
Indirect: Pre-hospital providers don't need to contact a physician before providing care
✔✔3 types of quality improvement - ✔✔1. prospective: preventing problems
2. concurrent: taking action while tasks are being performed
3. retrospective: ways to improve in the future
✔✔Temperature Regulation - ✔✔- Conduction: transfer of heat through direct contact
- Convection: exchange of heat when a gas or liquid moves past the surface of an
object
- Radiation: energy exchange in waves through space
- Evaporation: heat exchange when liquid converts to gas
- Always from warmer object to cooler
✔✔Homeostasis - ✔✔Body's ability to regulate its inner environment to ensure stability
and to respond to changes in the outside environment
✔✔Fight or Flight Response - ✔✔Function of autonomic nervous system
- release of epinephrine/adrenaline
- elevated heart rate/blood pressure
- pupil dilation
- increased respiratory rate
✔✔Immune Response - ✔✔the state of being protected from a disease
- pathogens cause disease/illness
- immune system produces antibodies
✔✔Factors in Working Outdoors - ✔✔1. Environmental Conditions
2. Mental Preparedness
3. Physical fitness
4. Proper equipment
5. Hydration
6. Prolonged rescue response preparation
✔✔5 ways to transmit infectious diseases - ✔✔1. Direct contact (person to person)
