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Jones And Bartlett EMT Course Exam Study Guide. AEMT - answeran individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as IV therapy and the administration of certain emergency medications. ALS - answeradvanced lifesaving procedures, some of which are now being provided ...

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©THEBRIGHT EXAM SOLUTIONS

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Jones And Bartlett EMT Course Exam Study
Guide.


AEMT - answer✔an individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support,
such as IV therapy and the administration of certain emergency medications.

ALS - answer✔advanced lifesaving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the
EMT

ADA Act - answer✔comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities
against discrimination

AED - answer✔device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular
fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the
patient.

community paramedicine - answer✔a health care model in which experienced paramedics
receive advanced training to equip them to provide additional services in the prehospital
environment, such as health evaluations, monitoring of chronic illnesses or conditions, and
patient advocacy.

IV therapy - answer✔the delivery of medication directly into a vein

medical control - answer✔physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone
(online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidelines (off-line/indirect), as authorized by the
medical director of the service program

medical director - answer✔the physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority
to provide medical care in the field

MIH - answer✔a method of delivering health care which involves providing health care within
the community rather than at a doctor's office or hospital

National EMS Scope of Practice Model - answer✔a document created by the NHTSA that
outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers.

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primary prevention - answer✔efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring

public health - answer✔focused on examining the health needs of entire populations with the
goal of preventing health problems.

secondary prevention - answer✔efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you
cannot completely prevent.

abduction - answer✔motion of a limb away from the midline

adduction - answer✔motion of a limb toward the midline

anterior - answer✔the front surface of the body; the side facing you in the standard anatomic
position

apex - answer✔the pointed extremity of a conical structure

bilateral - answer✔a body part or condition that appears on both sides of the midline

combining vowel - answer✔the vowel used to combine two word roots or a word root and
suffix

deep - answer✔farther inside the body and away from the skin

distal - answer✔further from the trunk or nearer to the free end of the extremity

dorsal - answer✔the posterior surface of the body, including the back of the hand

extension - answer✔the straightning of a joint

flexion - answer✔the bending of a joint

fowler position - answer✔an inclined position in which the head of the bed is raised

inferior - answer✔below a body part or nearer to the feet

lateral - answer✔parts of the body that lie farther from the midline; also called outer structures

medial - answer✔parts of the body that lie closer to the midline; also called inner structures

palmar - answer✔the forward facing part of the hand in the anatomic position

plantar - answer✔the bottom surface of the foot

posterior - answer✔the back surface of the body; the side away from you in the standard
anatomic position

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prefix - answer✔part of a term thatr appears before a word root, changing the meaning of the
term

prone - answer✔lying face down

proximal - answer✔closer to the trunk

quadrants - answer✔describes the sections of the abdominal cavity, in which two imaginary
lines intersect at the umbilicus, dividing the abdomen into four equal areas

suffix - answer✔the part of a term that comes after the root word, at the end of the term

superficial - answer✔closer to or on the skin

superior - answer✔above a body part or nearer to the head

supine - answer✔lying face up

ventral - answer✔the anterior surface of the body

word root - answer✔the main part of a term that contains the primary meaning

abdomen - answer✔the body cavity that contains the major organs of digestion and excretion.
it is located below the diaphragm and above the pelvis

acetabulum - answer✔the depression on the lateral pelvis where its three component bones
join, in which the femoral head fits snugly

adam's apple - answer✔a firm prominence of cartilage that forms the upper part of the larynx.
it is more prominent in men than in women. also called the thyroid cartilage

adenosine triphosphate (ATP) - answer✔the nucleotide involved in energy metabolism; used to
store energy

adrenal glands - answer✔endocrine glands located on top of the kidneys that release
adrenaline when stimulated by the sympathetic nervous system

adrenergic - answer✔pertaining to nerves that release the neurotransmitter norephinephrine,
or noradrenaline (such as adrenergic nerves, adrenergic response); also pertains to the
receptors acted on by neorepinephrine

aerobic metabolism - answer✔metabolism that can proceed only in the presence of oxygen

agonal gasps - answer✔abnormal breathing pattern characterized by slow, gasping breaths,
sometimes seen in patients in cardiac arrest

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