EMERGENCY CARE 14TH EXAMS STUDY GUIDED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔spinal board - ✔✔rigid board with multiple slots for straps used for head and
thoracolumbar restraints; designed to transport patients in a relatively immobile state.
✔✔bag-valve mask (BVM) - ✔✔A handheld device with a face mask and a self-refilling
bag that can be squeezed to provide artificial ventilations to a patient. It can deliver air
from the atmosphere or oxygen from a supplemental oxygen supply system.
✔✔Cervical Collar - ✔✔A neck brace that partially immobilizes the neck following injury.
✔✔defibrillator - ✔✔a device that delivers an electric shock to the heart to restore its
normal rhythm
✔✔consent - ✔✔permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.
✔✔Triage - ✔✔The medical screening of patients to determine their relative priority of
need and the proper place of treatment
✔✔cardiac arrest - ✔✔an event in which the heart abruptly stops beating or develops
an arrhythmia that prevents it from pumping blood effectively
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔spinal board - ✔✔rigid board with multiple slots for straps used for head and
thoracolumbar restraints; designed to transport patients in a relatively immobile state.
✔✔bag-valve mask (BVM) - ✔✔A handheld device with a face mask and a self-refilling
bag that can be squeezed to provide artificial ventilations to a patient. It can deliver air
from the atmosphere or oxygen from a supplemental oxygen supply system.
✔✔Cervical Collar - ✔✔A neck brace that partially immobilizes the neck following injury.
✔✔defibrillator - ✔✔a device that delivers an electric shock to the heart to restore its
normal rhythm
✔✔consent - ✔✔permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.
✔✔Triage - ✔✔The medical screening of patients to determine their relative priority of
need and the proper place of treatment
✔✔cardiac arrest - ✔✔an event in which the heart abruptly stops beating or develops
an arrhythmia that prevents it from pumping blood effectively
