HSCI-0007 Study Guide

Flashcards for EMS Systems, Workforce Safety, Lifting & Moving, Legal Issues, Communication, Human Body, Airway Management, Patient Assessment, Medical Emergencies, Poisoning, Behavioral, Environmental, Bleeding & Shock, Pediatric Emergencies, Geriatric Emergencies

The __ system is designed to improve patient outcomes by providing emergency medical care before patients reach the hospital.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

The EMS system involves multiple levels of care, including EMRs, EMTs, AEMTs, and __.

Paramedics

The EMS system includes reporting, dispatch, first response, EMS response, and __ care.

Hospital

EMRs should provide care without __, regardless of a patient's gender, sexual orientation, ethnic background, geographic location, or socioeconomic level.

Bias

EMRs must follow national or state __ for their level of practice.

Standards

The role of an EMR is crucial in the first minutes after an emergency, as they may be the __ trained person on the scene.

Only

The initial responsibility of an EMR is to protect the __ scene and the patient from further harm.

Incident

EMRs can assist emergency medical providers with more advanced training by helping __ the patient for transport.

Prepare

Scope of practice refers to the specific __ that a provider is permitted to perform based on their education, training, and experience.

Activities

__ of care: how an individual must act or behave when giving care

Standard

__ to act: the legal responsibility of a provider to respond quickly to an emergency scene and provide medical care

Duty

Medical __ involves offline (protocols) and online (direct orders) guidance.

Direction

Level I trauma centers provide the most __ trauma care for traumatic injuries.

Comprehensive

Level I trauma centers often serve as a __ referral center.

Regional

Level II trauma centers initiate the treatment of all trauma patients and offer 24-hour access to __ medicine and critical care.

Emergency

Level III trauma centers focus on prompt assessment, resuscitation, surgery, and __ of trauma patients.

Stabilization

Level IV trauma centers focus on providing advanced trauma __ support (ATLS).

Life

Level IV trauma centers __ before transferring patients to a high-level center.

Stabilize

Level V trauma centers focus on initial evaluation, stabilization, and __ capabilities before transferring patients to a higher level of care.

Diagnostic

Basic Life Support (BLS) provides basic __ care, including CPR, airway management, and oxygen administration.

Medical

Advanced Life Support (ALS) offers more __ medical care, including administering medications, performing advanced airway procedures, and utilizing advanced monitoring equipment.

Advanced

Critical Care Transport (CCT) involves transporting critically ill or injured patients with advanced medical __ and equipment.

Monitoring

Specialty Care Transport (SCT) is designed for patients with __ medical needs, such as neonatal or critical care.

Specialized

Fixed Wing & Rotary Wing involves transporting beneficiaries by __ or rotary-wing (helicopter) aircraft for a medically necessary air ambulance transport.

Fixed-wing (airplane)

There are __ stages of preventing stress: Eat, Drink, Be merry

3

Name 3 things you have physically done to protect your health and manage your stress: Resting, __, Exercising

Getting some sun

There are five stages of __ that a person experiences after the loss of someone, either someone close to them or that they have seen pass.

Grief

The five stages of grief, that don't occur in any specific order, include Denial, Anger, Bargaining, __, Acceptance.

Depression

This stage of grief typically involves disbelief or shock about the loss, often with the feeling of numbness or not wanting to believe the reality of the situation (__)

Denial

In this stage of grief, the reality of the loss sinks in, __ may arise, directed at either oneself, others, or even the situation itself.

Anger

In this stage of grief, individuals might try to negotiate or make __ with a higher power or fate to reverse the loss or avoid future loss.

Deals

In this stage of grief, there is deep __ , hopelessness, and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the loss.

Sadness

Denial can be expressed as __!

Not me

Anger can be expressed as __?

Why me

Bargaining can be expressed as __?

Okay, but…

Depression can be expresses as __?

Heavy-hearted

Standard __ are a set of infectious control practices used to prevent the transmission of infectious agents, both for the EMT and for the patient.

Precautions

PPE includes a variety of equipment that is specific to certain __.

Hazards

__ protect hands from chemicals, sharp objects, or biological materials

Gloves

Safety glasses/goggles protect __ from dust, debris, or chemical splashes.

Eyes

Hard hats protect the __ from impact injuries.

Head

Respirators protect the __ system from inhaling hazardous substances like dust, fumes, or vapors.

Respiratory

Physical Hazards PPE is meant to protect against includes Impacts, cuts, __, and other physical dangers.

Punctures

An EMR must be able to __ the situation, quickly evaluate the patient’s condition, and carry out the proper life-saving measures.

Analyze

A __ position is a body posture that is typically used for unconscious, semi-conscious, and sometimes conscious but breathing patients.

Recovery

A recovery position is meant to __ an open airway and prevent choking on their vomit or fluids.

Maintain

If the person stops __ or their pulse is absent, begin CPR.

Breathing

Body __ refers to the proper use of the body to lift, move, and carry patients efficiently, which also results in minimizing the risk of injury.

Mechanics

Body Mechanics typically involves Keep back straight, bend at the __, and avoid twisting

Knees

The patient will normally be __ and unable to move in any other way, which results in the provider needing to put more effort into lifting the patient

Dead weight

The Fowler’s and the Semi-Fowler’s positions are specific positions used to improve __ and comfort, specifically with patients with respiratory issues.

Breathing

__ positionelevates the head of the bed to 45-60 degrees and it helps with breathing by facilitating lung expansion and diaphragm descent.

Fowlers

__ position elevates the head of the bed to 30-45 degrees and offers a gentler elevation than Fowler’s.

Semi-Fowlers

Spinal __ is the process of stabilizing a patient’s spine to prevent further injury, especially when there’s a suspicion of spinal injury.

Immobilization

Spinal immobilization typically involves the use of a __ collar and a long spine board (LSB).

Cervical

Spinal injuries can cause significant damage to the spinal __ which can lead to paralysis or other neurological deficits.

Cord

Immobilization helps keep the spine in a natural, __ position which is essential to prevent further damage.

Aligned

Provide all you care in __ faith, keeping the patient’s best interest uppermost in your mind.

Good

__ of care is the expected standards that providers should provide based on their training and experience.

Scope

__ is essential in terms of patient care and automony, this is the permission or approval of a patient to either recieve care.

Consent

__ Consent ensures the patient is fully aware of the treatment, risks, and benfits.

Informed

__ applies to patients who are unconcious or otherwise unable to provide informed consent.

Implied Consent

__ is the most common type of consent for conscious and competent patients

Expressed Consent

With refusal of care, the patient should be made aware of the __ of refusing care

Consequences

Understanding Personalization, Communications, __

Documentation

Decision-making capacity (DMC) refers to a person’s ability to __ relevant information and the medical situation/consequences

Understand

A __ is a written request that gives permission for a medical provider to not attempt to resuscitate in the event of cardiac arrest or respiration issues.

DNR (Do-not-resuscitate)

A __ is when a patient is legally pronounced dead in specific circumstances.

Pronouncement

Transmission of information to another person is (__)

Communication

The written or electronic reported portion of a patient care interaction is (__)

Documentation

Dispatch is meant to be done by a phone system, paging system, a fax, or a __ system.

Radio

A Arrival __ is what you have documented when you arrive on scene of an emergency

Report

Anatomical __ is a body posture, a position of reference used by medical professionals to locate the anatomical parts or divisions of the body.

Position

An imaginary, flat surface that divides the body into 2 sections is (Body __ )

Planes

These terms help indicate the __ of structures, surfaces, and regions of the body and they tend to always be identified relative to the anatomical position (Directional Terms)

Position

__ Movement away from the midsagittal plane of body

Abduction

__ movement toward the midsagittal plane of body

Addiction

__ Pertaining to the midline of body

Medial

__ pertains to the side.

Lateral

__ Toward the head or upper portion of body

Superior (cephalad)

__ Away from the heard or toward the tail (lower part)

Inferior (caudal)

__ Nearer to the center (trunk of the body) or to the point of attachment

Proximal

__ Further from the center (trunk of the body) or from the point of attachment to the body

Distal

__ Front of the body

Anterior (ventral)

__ Back of the body

Posterior (dorsal)

__ Pertaining to the outer wall of the body cavity

Parietal

__ Pertaining to the viscera (internal organs)

Visceral

__ Lying on the abdomen, face down

Prone

__ Lying horizontally on the back, face up

Supine

__ Turning inward or inside out

Inversion

__ Turning outward

Eversion

__ Pertaining to the palm of the hand

Palmer

__ Pertaining to the sole of the foot

Plantar

__ Toward the surface of the body (external)

Superficial

__ Away from the surface of the body (internal)

Deep

Name 4 systems that is essential for understanding of the human body; The Respiratory System, The Circulatory System, The __ System, The Muscular System

Skeletal

There are __ principal types of bones; Short Bones, Irregular Bones, Flat Bones, Long Bones

4

__ connect muscles to bones

Tendons

__ fibrous connective tissue that attaches bone to bone.

Ligaments

__ Bones are cube-shaped and are made of mostly spongy bone, with a thin layer of compact bone on the outside.

Short