AEMT must have a minimum of how many hours beyond EMT training? Correct Answer
150-250
What are the six roles and responsibilities of an AEMT? Correct Answer Vehicle Readiness
Safety
Scene Leadership
Patient Assessment
Maintaining Certs and Licensure
Interprofessional Teamwork
Publication of _______ by the NASNRC in 1966 is thought of the starting point of EMS. Correct Answer white paper
Who developed the first curricula of training for EMS? Correct Answer National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration
When did raw AHA begin teaching CPR classes? Correct Answer 1960s
When was the NREMT founded? Correct Answer 1970
Emergency Medical Services Act established in Correct Answer 1973
NHTSA Scope of practice was founded in Correct Answer 2007
Wellness Correct Answer an overall state of well-being or total health
Health Correct Answer a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Short term stress Correct Answer eustress
Long term stress Correct Answer distress
The hypothalamus prepares the body for? Correct Answer fight or flight Homeostasis Correct Answer active coping and repairing damage causes by a stressor
infectious disease Correct Answer a disease caused by a pathogen
Communicable diseases Correct Answer Infections that can spread from one person to another
Direct transmission of disease Correct Answer exposure to a pathogen through direct contact
Indirect transmission of disease Correct Answer contact with infected object and then touching mucous membranes or non intact skin
Mucous Membranes Correct Answer pathogens transmitted in blood, semen, or other potentially infectious material
Droplets Correct Answer nebulizer pathogens that are inhaled
What describes the expected conduct of EMS? Correct Answer EMT Oath and the EMT
Code of Ethics
Abandonment Correct Answer Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before
the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
assault Correct Answer placing a person in fear of bodily harm
battery Correct Answer is the unlawful touching or forceful striking of another person using a hand, a weapon or other instrument.
Type 1 Ambulance Correct Answer pick up truck with box
Type 2 Ambulance Correct Answer standard van design
Type 3 Ambulance Correct Answer Van with Box
Homeostasis Correct Answer finding a balance
Anatomy Correct Answer The study of body structure
Physiology Correct Answer The study of body function
cell Correct Answer Basic unit of life
chemistry Correct Answer the study of matter and how it changes