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Who comprises the EMS system? Answer: A team of healthcare professionals
providing care from the scene to hospital discharge.
What is the role of the Medical Director in EMS? Answer: Authorizes EMTs to
provide medical care in the field.
What is quality control in EMS? Answer: Ensuring appropriate medical care
standards are met by EMTs.
Define online medical direction Answer: Medical direction provided over the phone
or radio by a physician
Define offline medical direction Answer: Pre-written protocols or standing orders
List one definitive sign of death Answer: Obvious mortal injury (e.g., decapitation)
What is rigor mortis? Answer: Stiffening of the body after death occurring within 2 to
12 hours.
What is dependent lividity? Answer: Discoloration caused by blood settling at the
lowest point of the body.
What is purification? Answer: Decomposition of body tissue, occurring 40 to 96
hours after death.
When does an EMT not begin CPR? Answer: In cases of DNR, MOLST, or definitive
signs of death
What is MOLST? Answer: Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment.
What are the five stages of grief? Answer: denial, anger, bargaining, depression,
acceptance
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,How should EMTs deal with dying patients? Answer: Maintain dignity, respect,
communicate with family, avoid false assurance.
List a sign of EMT stress. Answer: Irritability, anxiety, or loss of interest in work.
What is CISD? Answer: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing for severe job related
stress.
Define standard of care. Answer: How a similarly trained EMT would treat a patient
Define scope of practice. Answer: Skills an EMT is allowed to perform.
What is duty to act? Answer: EMT's legal obligation to provide care when on duty.
Define negligence. Answer: Failure to provide care as a similarly trained EMT
would.
What is abandonment? Answer: Stopping care without transferring to someone of
equal or higher training.
What does RMA stand for? Answer: Refusal of Medical Assistance.
When can a minor refuse care? Answer: Refusal of Medical Assistance.
When can a minor refuse care? Answer: If emancipated, pregnant, married, or
seeking treatment for STDs.
What is assault in EMS? Answer: Placing a patient in fear of bodily harm unlawfully.
What is battery in EMS? Answer: Unlawful touching or treating a patient without
consent.
Define false imprisonment in EMS. Answer: Transporting a competent patient
against their will.
What is expressed consent? Answer: Patient verbally agrees to care.
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,What is informed consent? Answer: Patient agrees to care after being told all risks
and benefits.
What is implied consent? Answer: Assumed consent when patient is unconscious or
in life-threatening situation.
What is the supine position? Answer: Lying face up.
What is the prone position? Answer: Lying face down.
What is the recovery position? Answer: Lying face down.
What is the recovery position? Answer: Lying on the side, typically the left.
What is the Fowler position? Answer: Sitting upright with legs extended.
What is semi-Fowler's position? Answer: Sitting at 45-degree angle with legs
extended.
What is misfeasance? Answer: Performing an approved action improperly.
What is malfeasance? Answer: Performing an action above EMT's level of training.
What is nonfeasance? Answer: Failure to perform a required action.
Define proximate cause. Answer: Direct link between EMT's actions and the
patient's injury.
Define liability. Answer: Legal responsibility.
Define plaintiff. Answer: Person bringing the legal suit
Define defendant. Answer: Person being sued.
What does 'cephalic' mean in medical terminology? Answer: At the head.
What does 'caudal' refer to? Answer: At the feet.
What is the term for moving away from the midline? Answer: Abduction.
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, What is the term for moving toward the midline? Answer: Adduction.
What does 'anterior' refer to? Answer: front of the body
What is the meaning of 'lateral'? Answer: Towards the outside.
What does medial refer to? Answer: Towards the inside or middle.
What is meant by 'proximal'? Answer: Closer to the torso.
What does distal mean? Answer: Farther from the torso.
What is 'dorsal' in medical terms? Answer: Towards the spine.
Where does gas exchange occur in the lungs? Answer: In the alveoli
What muscle controls breathing? Answer: The diaphragm.
What organ controls breathing? Answer: The brain
What is the aorta? Answer: Largest artery in the body
What is the function of an artery? Answer: carries oxygenated blood away from the
heart
What is a capillary? Answer: The smallest blood vessel that connects arterioles and
venules
What is a contusion? Answer: A swollen, raised, warm area often from blunt trauma.
What is ecchymosis? Answer: A bruise caused by internal bleeding without skin
break.
What is epistaxis? Answer: A nose bleed.
Define hematoma. Answer: Pooling or mass of blood beneath the skin.
What is perfusion? Answer: Circulation of blood through tissues or organs.
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SCORES MADE SIMPLE | TRUSTED TEST SOLUTIONS!
Who comprises the EMS system? Answer: A team of healthcare professionals
providing care from the scene to hospital discharge.
What is the role of the Medical Director in EMS? Answer: Authorizes EMTs to
provide medical care in the field.
What is quality control in EMS? Answer: Ensuring appropriate medical care
standards are met by EMTs.
Define online medical direction Answer: Medical direction provided over the phone
or radio by a physician
Define offline medical direction Answer: Pre-written protocols or standing orders
List one definitive sign of death Answer: Obvious mortal injury (e.g., decapitation)
What is rigor mortis? Answer: Stiffening of the body after death occurring within 2 to
12 hours.
What is dependent lividity? Answer: Discoloration caused by blood settling at the
lowest point of the body.
What is purification? Answer: Decomposition of body tissue, occurring 40 to 96
hours after death.
When does an EMT not begin CPR? Answer: In cases of DNR, MOLST, or definitive
signs of death
What is MOLST? Answer: Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment.
What are the five stages of grief? Answer: denial, anger, bargaining, depression,
acceptance
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,How should EMTs deal with dying patients? Answer: Maintain dignity, respect,
communicate with family, avoid false assurance.
List a sign of EMT stress. Answer: Irritability, anxiety, or loss of interest in work.
What is CISD? Answer: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing for severe job related
stress.
Define standard of care. Answer: How a similarly trained EMT would treat a patient
Define scope of practice. Answer: Skills an EMT is allowed to perform.
What is duty to act? Answer: EMT's legal obligation to provide care when on duty.
Define negligence. Answer: Failure to provide care as a similarly trained EMT
would.
What is abandonment? Answer: Stopping care without transferring to someone of
equal or higher training.
What does RMA stand for? Answer: Refusal of Medical Assistance.
When can a minor refuse care? Answer: Refusal of Medical Assistance.
When can a minor refuse care? Answer: If emancipated, pregnant, married, or
seeking treatment for STDs.
What is assault in EMS? Answer: Placing a patient in fear of bodily harm unlawfully.
What is battery in EMS? Answer: Unlawful touching or treating a patient without
consent.
Define false imprisonment in EMS. Answer: Transporting a competent patient
against their will.
What is expressed consent? Answer: Patient verbally agrees to care.
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,What is informed consent? Answer: Patient agrees to care after being told all risks
and benefits.
What is implied consent? Answer: Assumed consent when patient is unconscious or
in life-threatening situation.
What is the supine position? Answer: Lying face up.
What is the prone position? Answer: Lying face down.
What is the recovery position? Answer: Lying face down.
What is the recovery position? Answer: Lying on the side, typically the left.
What is the Fowler position? Answer: Sitting upright with legs extended.
What is semi-Fowler's position? Answer: Sitting at 45-degree angle with legs
extended.
What is misfeasance? Answer: Performing an approved action improperly.
What is malfeasance? Answer: Performing an action above EMT's level of training.
What is nonfeasance? Answer: Failure to perform a required action.
Define proximate cause. Answer: Direct link between EMT's actions and the
patient's injury.
Define liability. Answer: Legal responsibility.
Define plaintiff. Answer: Person bringing the legal suit
Define defendant. Answer: Person being sued.
What does 'cephalic' mean in medical terminology? Answer: At the head.
What does 'caudal' refer to? Answer: At the feet.
What is the term for moving away from the midline? Answer: Abduction.
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, What is the term for moving toward the midline? Answer: Adduction.
What does 'anterior' refer to? Answer: front of the body
What is the meaning of 'lateral'? Answer: Towards the outside.
What does medial refer to? Answer: Towards the inside or middle.
What is meant by 'proximal'? Answer: Closer to the torso.
What does distal mean? Answer: Farther from the torso.
What is 'dorsal' in medical terms? Answer: Towards the spine.
Where does gas exchange occur in the lungs? Answer: In the alveoli
What muscle controls breathing? Answer: The diaphragm.
What organ controls breathing? Answer: The brain
What is the aorta? Answer: Largest artery in the body
What is the function of an artery? Answer: carries oxygenated blood away from the
heart
What is a capillary? Answer: The smallest blood vessel that connects arterioles and
venules
What is a contusion? Answer: A swollen, raised, warm area often from blunt trauma.
What is ecchymosis? Answer: A bruise caused by internal bleeding without skin
break.
What is epistaxis? Answer: A nose bleed.
Define hematoma. Answer: Pooling or mass of blood beneath the skin.
What is perfusion? Answer: Circulation of blood through tissues or organs.
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