EMR, Chapter 1 Questions and Answers Graded A+
What is an "EMR"?
The first medically trained person to arrive on the scene of an emergency
Who are the main people who take care of your initial care after an emergency?
Emergency Medical Technicians, Nurses, Physicians, Other Allied Health ...
What is an "EMR"? - answer The first medically trained person to arrive on the scene of
an emergency
Who are the main people who take care of your initial care after an emergency? -
answer Emergency Medical Technicians, Nurses, Physicians, Other Allied Health
Professionals
Who usually receives the telephone call reporting an incident? - answer Emergency
Response Communications Center or Public Safety Answering Point
What is a reason why problems might come up during an EMS operation? - answerA
lack of coordination between resources & personnel
P.S.A.P. - answerPublic Safety Answering Point
What might an emergency response communications center be? - answerA fire, police,
or EMS agency, a 9-1-1 center, or a 7-digit emergency telephone # used by one or all of
the emergency agencies
How does dispatch usually occur? - answerPager, Radio, Telephone, Computer, Other
means
What is a key survival factor for people in cardiac arrest? - answerThe length of time
between when the heartbeat stops & when manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation starts
C.P.R. - answerCardiopulmonary Resusciation
A properly equipped vehicle & the EMT staff that staff it make up a what...? - answerA
Basic Life Support unit
B.L.S. - answerBasic Life Support
Who continues the care begun by EMRs? - answerEMTs
What do EMTs do? - answerStabilize the patient's condition further than the EMTs have
done, & prepare the patient for transport to the emergency department of the hospital
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