EMT-B Basic Final Exam Review 100%correc

Who sets the curriculum for all EMS courses? - ANSWER DOT Provides national standards for EMT testing and certification. - ANSWER National Registery Physician who authorizes/delegates authority to provide medical care in the field. - ANSWER Medical Control Recognition, patient assesment, continued assesment and stabilization in hospital, definitive care. - ANSWER Continuum of Care Types of stress include: - ANSWER Cumulative, post-traumatic stress reaction, eustruss, acute stress, and chronic stress S/S of stress include: - ANSWER Increased respiratory rate, heart rate, and B/P, vasodilation, dialted pupils, tensed muscles, increased glucose levels, perspiration, deacreased blood flow to gastrointestinal tract, irritability, inability to concentrate, difficult or increased sleeping, anxiety, guilt, loss of appetite, decreased sexual activity, loss of interest in work, alcholism, drug use. Management of stress includes: - ANSWER Eliminate stressors, change partners, get rid of negative personalities, change work hours, reduce overtime, change your attitude, don't obsess over what you can't change, excercise, diet. Fight or Flight response: - ANSWER During an acute stress response, the autonomic nervous system is activated and the body increases level of cotricol, adrenilen, and other hormones that produce an increased heart rate, quick breathing, and higher BP. Blood is shunted from extremities to the big muscles to "fight or flight". Routes of transmission include: - ANSWER Direct - touch or droplets Indirect - spread by inanimate objects Mechanical (vector born) - by insects Biological - Transmissions by which the germs live or grow Airborne - sneezes, coughs Dust - may carry pores, may remain for long periods. Control and prevention of contamination include? - ANSWER Hand washing, gloves, eye protection, gowns, masks, mask, respirators, barrier devices, and immunizations. Duty to Act is? - ANSWER An obligation to provide care. Duties include: - ANSWER Duty to: -Respond -Obey laws and regulations -Operate an emergerncy vehicle reasonably and prudently -Provide care and transportation to expected standard -Provide care and transport consistent with the scope of practice and local medicine protocol -Continue and transport through to its appropriate conclusion The scope of practice is? - ANSWER Descriptionof what assessment and treatment skills and EMT may legally perform. Implied consent is? - ANSWER Consent in which a patient is unable to give consent and is provided treatment under the implication they would want treament. Informed consent is? - ANSWER Permission for treatment given by a patient after the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained. Ethics - ANSWER The discipline dealing with what is good and bad. Standard of care is? - ANSWER The degree of medical care and skill that is expected of a resonably competent EMT acting in the same or similar circumstances. Confidentiality is? - ANSWER Communication between you and the patient is considered confindential and can only be released to other medical staff or with a court order. Definite signs of death include: - ANSWER Obvious mortal damage, dependent lividity, rigor mortis, putrefaction. Obvious mortal damage: - ANSWER Injuries such as decapitation or non survivable injury. Dependent lividity - ANSWER Blood settling to the lowest part of the body. "Pooling" Rigor mortis - ANSWER Stiffening of body muscles caused by chemical changes in the body. Develops in the face and jaw, gradually extending downward. Onset is affected by body's ability to lose temp (thin=fast, fat body=slow). Occurs between 2-12 hours after death putrefaction - ANSWER Decomposition of body tissue. Occurs between 20-96 hours. Anterioir - ANSWER Front side of body Posterior - ANSWER back of the body Midline - ANSWER Imaginary line drawn vertically from middle of the forehead through the umbilicus floor Midclavicular - ANSWER Referring to the middle of the clavicle parallel to the midline Midaxillary - ANSWER Referring to middle of armpit parallel to the midline