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07/27/2011

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Term
A.B.C's
Definition

Airway: Open,Clear, Maintainable, No Need For Suction?

Breathing: Rate, Ease, Depth, Oxygen

Circulation: Rate,Rhytm, Strength

Carotid and Radial Pulse

Skin Signs: Color, Moisture, Tempature.

Term
A.V.P.U
Definition

Alert

Verabl Response

Painful Stimuli

Unresponsive

Term
Abondonment
Definition
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transfered to someone with equal or greater medical training
Term
Advance Directive
Definition
DNR order
Term
Anatomical Position
Definition
Body stands erect facing the observer arms down at sides palms forward
Term
Anterior
Definition
Front of the body or body part
Term
Artifical Ventilation
Definition
Forcing air or oxygen into the lungs when a patient has stopped breathing or had inadequate breathing.
Term
Ausculation
Definition
Listening
Term
Blunt Force Trauma
Definition
Injury caused by a blow that does not penetrate the skin or other body tissue
Term
Cardiovascular System
Definition
System made up of the heart and the blood vessels
Term
Chief Complaint
Definition
Reason for dispatch
Term
Closed Exteremity Injury
Definition
Injury with no opening
Term
Colostomy
Definition
A surgical opening in the wall of the abdomen with a bag in place to collect waste from the digestive system
Term
Confidentility
Definition
Not to reveal info about a patient
Term
Consent
Definition
Permission from the patient for care or other action byt the EMT
Term
Crepitation
Definition
The grinding sound oor feeling of broken bones rubbing togeather
Term
Crepitus
Definition
Bone Ends Rubbing
Term
Cyanosis
Definition
Blue or gray color resulting from lack of oxygen in the body
Term
DCAP-BTLS
Definition

Deformaties

Contusions

Abrasions

Punctures

Burns

Tenderness

Laceration

Swelling

Term
DNR order
Definition
Patient has terminal illness and does not wish to prolong lide through resuscitative efforts
Term
Dead Space
Definition
Areas of the lungs outside the alveoli where gas exchanges where the blood does not take place
Term
Detailed Physical Exam
Definition
a very carefull detailed assesment of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities, and postierior of the body to detect signs and symptoms of injuries.
Term
Distention
Definition
Condition of bending, stretched, inflated or larger than normal
Term
Duty to Act
Definition
Obligation to provide care to a patient
Term
Expressed Consent
Definition
Consent given by adults who are of legal age and mentally comptent to make a rational decision in regard to their medical well-being
Term
Gag Reflex
Definition
Vomiting or retaking that results when something is placed in the back of the pharynx
Term
General Inpression
Definition
Impression of patient as you approach
Term
H.I.P.A.A
Definition

Health Insurance Portability and acountability Act

which

Protects privacy of patient and specific heath care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is issued and distributed

Term
Head-Tilt Chin-Lift
Definition
Tilting head back and lifiting the chin, non-trauma or injury
Term
Hypoxia
Definition
Insufficiency of oxygen in body's tissue
Term
Implied Consent
Definition
consent presumed a patient or patients paren or guardian would give if they could
Term
Index of Suspicion
Definition
Awareness that there may be injuries
Term
Inferior
Definition
Further from the head
Term
Initial Assesment
Definition

G.I

M.S

L.O.C

ABC's

Priority

Term
Intervention
Definition
Actions taken to correct a patients problem
Term
Jaw-Thrust 
Definition
Move Jaw forward without tilting the head or neck incase of trauma injuries.
Term
Jugular Vain Distention
Definition
 Bulgining of the Neck Veins
Term
Lateral
Definition
to the side or away from the midline of the body
Term
Liability
Definition
Being held legally responsible
Term
Medial
Definition
toward the midline of the body
Term
Mental Status
Definition
Level of Responsiveness
Term
Mid-Axillary line
Definition
Line drawn vertically from the middle of the armpit to the ankle
Term
Mid-Clavical line
Definition
line through the center of each clavical
Term
Midline
Definition
imaginary line drawn down the center of the body dividing it into right and left halves
Term
Minute Volume
Definition
Amount of air breathed in during each respiration multiplied by the number of breath per minute.
Term
Multi-Casualty Incident
Definition

Emergency Involving Multiple Patients

Term
Nature of Illness
Definition
What is medically wrong with a patient
Term
Negligence
Definition
Finding og failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act
Term
Objective
Definition
You Can see It!
Term
P.P.E
Definition

Person Pertective Equipment

or

Protects EMS worker from infection and or exposure to the dangers

Term
Palpation
Definition
Touching or Feeling
Term
Paradoxial Motion
Definition
Movement of a part of the chest in the opposite direction to the rest of the chest during respiration.
Term
Pathogens
Definition
Organisms that cause infection
Term
Penetrating Trauma
Definition
Injury caused by an object that pases through the skin or other body tissues
Term
Perfusion
Definition
Supply of oxygen to and removal of wastes from the cells and tissue of the body as a result of the flow of blood through capillaries
Term
Positive Pressure Ventilation
Definition
Artifical Ventilation
Term
Posterior
Definition
Back of the body or body part
Term
Pressure Dressing
Definition
Bulky dressing held in position with a tightly wrapped bandage to apply pressure to help control bleeding
Term
Pressure Point
Definition
Points on body that lye on a main artery
Term
Priapism
Definition
Persistant erection of the penis that may result from spinal injury and some medical problems
Term
Prone
Definition
Lyin face down
Term
Rapid Trauma Assesment
Definition
Fast assesment of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities, and postierior of the body to detect signs and symptoms of any life threatening imjuries.
Term
Respiration
Definition
Breathing in and out
Term
Respiration
Definition
Breathing
Term
Respiratory Arrest
Definition
Breathing stops
Term
Respiratory Distress
Definition

Increased work of breathing

And

Shortness of breath

Term
Respiratory Failure
Definition
Reduction of breathing to the point where oxygen intake is not sufficient to support life
Term
S.A.M.P.L.E
Definition

Signs and Symptoms

Allergies

Medications recently Taking

Previous Important History

Last oral Intake

Events leading to....

Term
Scope fo Practice
Definition
Set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope or extent and limits of the EMTs job
Term
Signs
Definition
Indicator of patient's conditon that is objective
Term
Standard Precautions
Definition
Form of infaction control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious
Term
Standing Orders
Definition

A policy or protocols issued by a Medical Director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certain situations

Term
Stoma
Definition
Surgical opening in the neck through which the patient breathes
Term
Subjective
Definition
Example: Pain cant be seen only felt.
Term
Suctioning
Definition
Vaccume device to remove blood, vomit, and other secreting from airway
Term
Supine
Definition
Lying on the back
Term
Symptom
Definition
Indication of a patient's condition that cannot be observed by another person. Subjective.
Term
Tachycardia
Definition
Rapid Pulse
Term
Ventilation
Definition
Breathing in of air or oxygen or providing breaths aartifically
Term
mechanism of Injury
Definition
force or forces that may have caused injury
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