EMT Review Guide Questions 2024.

EMT Review Guide Questions 2024. 4 training and licensure levels - ANSWER emergency medical responder emergency medical technician advanced EMT paramedic emergency response guidebook - ANSWER Resource detailing common hazards and proper responses emergency move - ANSWER The technique that an EMT uses to quickly remove a patient from danger urgent move - ANSWER patient move that should be done quickly yet without any compromise of spinal integrity. Emergency medical responder - ANSWER very basic training and provides care before the ambulance arrives. e.g. law enforcement, fire fighters, park rangers, ski patrollers. EMT - ANSWER BLS training with automated external defibrillator, use of airway adjuncts and assisting patients with certain medications. requires 150 hrs. AEMT - ANSWER has some training in ALS such as intravenous therapy and administration of some drugs. 200-400 hrs. paramedic - ANSWER has extensive training in ALS, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring and other skills. hrs. NHTSA - ANSWER National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Every state follows the guidelines recommended for EMS training standards. scene size-up - ANSWER the EMT's initial evaluation of a scene to which he has been called patient assessment - ANSWER objective evaluation and determination of the status of patient americans with disabilities act (ADA) of 1990 - ANSWER prohibits discrimination against the disabled national EMS scope of practice model - ANSWER Provides guidelines for skills at each level of EMS training. federal level medical director - ANSWER Can limit the scope of practice but cannot expand beyond state laws. described in a set of written standing orders and protocols. automated external defibrillator (AED) - ANSWER detect treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias and deliver shock