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NREMT - Everything you need to know Practice Questions and Answers Medical Direction - ️️ Oversight of the patient-care aspects of an EMS system by the Medical Director. Protocols - ️️ lists of steps, such as assessments and interventions, to be taken in different situations. Protocols...

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NREMT - Everything you need to know
Practice Questions and Answers

Medical Direction - ✔️✔️Oversight of the patient-care aspects of an EMS system by the
Medical Director.

Protocols - ✔️✔️lists of steps, such as assessments and interventions, to be taken in
different situations. Protocols are developed by the Medical Director of an EMS system

Offline Direction - ✔️✔️consists of standing orders issued by the medical director that
allows EMTs to give certain medications or perform certain procedures without speaking
to the medical director or another physician.

Online Direction - ✔️✔️consists of orders from the on-duty physician given directly to an
EMT-B in the field by radio or telephone.

Standing Orders - ✔️✔️A policy or protocol issued by a Medical Director that authorizes
EMT-Bs and others to perform particular skills in certain situations.

HEPA Mask - ✔️✔️High Efficiency Particulate Air respirator; used for patients with
suspected TB; worn by the EMT provider to prevent airborne transmission

Hepatitis B - ✔️✔️infectious inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis B virus
(HBV) that is transmitted sexually or by exposure to contaminated blood or body fluid

Hepatitis C - ✔️✔️inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus, transmitted by
exposure to infected blood (rarely contracted sexually)

Tuberculosis - ✔️✔️Infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Most commonly affects the respiratory system and causes inflammation
and calcification of the system.




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Acute Stress - ✔️✔️short term ; fight or flight response ; effects disappear quickly after it
is over

Scope of Practice - ✔️✔️What we are allowed to do or trained to do

Standard Care - ✔️✔️the degree of care that a reasonably prudent person should
exercise under the same or similar circumstances

Duty to Act - ✔️✔️an obligation to provide care to a patient

Good Samaritan - ✔️✔️a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of
trouble

Expressed Consent - ✔️✔️Permission that must be obtained from every conscious,
mentally competent adult before emergency treatment may be provided

Implied Consent - ✔️✔️The consent it is presumed a patient or patient's parent or
gaurdian would give if they could, such as for an unconscious patient or a parent who
cannot be contacted when care is needed.

Treatment of a Minor - ✔️✔️Must be given by legal guardian

Involuntary - ✔️✔️Mentally incompetent person

Advanced Directive - ✔️✔️a legal document prepared by a living, competent adult to
provide guidance to the health care team if the individual should become unable to
make decisions regarding his or her medical care; may also be called a living will or
durable power of attorney for health care

Polst - ✔️✔️Physicians orders for life sustaining treatment. May include order for DO NOT
RESUSCITATE

PCR - ✔️✔️Prehospital care report

Emergency Move - ✔️✔️a move made when there is an immediate danger to the patient.




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Urgent Move - ✔️✔️Move used if a scne factor causes a decline in patient's condition, or
if the treatment of a patient requires a move.

Non urgent move - ✔️✔️No immediate threat to life, are carried out in such a way as to
prevent injury and to avoid discomfort and pain.

bariatric stretcher - ✔️✔️Stretcher for obese patients

scoop stretcher - ✔️✔️this cot splits in tow or four sections, so it can be used where
larger stretchers cannot fit.

basket stretcher - ✔️✔️designed to surround and protect the patient, this stretcher is used
to move a patient from one level to another to over rough terrain.

flexible stretcher - ✔️✔️made of canvas or rubberized or other flexible material, often with
wooden slats sewn into pockets and three carrying handles on each side. can be useful
in restricted areas or narrow hallways

anatomical planes - ✔️✔️1. coronal (vertical cut into front and back halves) 2. transverse
(horizontal cut into upper and lower) 3. sagittal (vertical cut into left and right halves)

fowler position - ✔️✔️a bed sitting position with the head of the bed raised to 45 degrees

semi fowler position - ✔️✔️the head of the bed is raised 30 degrees; or the head of the
bed is raised 30 degrees and the knee portion is raised 15 degrees

shock position - ✔️✔️feet elevated 12 inches higher than head

anterior - ✔️✔️Toward the Front

posterior - ✔️✔️Toward the back

superior - ✔️✔️toward the head or above point of reference

inferior - ✔️✔️away from the head or below point of reference

dorsal - ✔️✔️Toward the back/spine




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