EMS field skills flashcards
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Twenty flashcards on EMS field skills: scene size-up, triage, medications, splinting and ventilation.
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- First priority on arriving at any scene?
- Scene safety: check for hazards before approaching the patient.
- What does a scene size-up include?
- Safety, standard precautions, mechanism or nature of illness, number of patients and need for more resources.
- In trauma, what comes before airway in the primary assessment?
- Control of life-threatening external bleeding.
- When is a rapid head-to-toe trauma assessment used?
- Significant mechanism of injury or an unresponsive patient.
- START triage: a patient who can walk?
- Green, minor.
- START triage: breathing over 30 per minute?
- Red, immediate.
- START triage: not breathing after the airway is opened?
- Black, expectant or deceased.
- START triage: no radial pulse or capillary refill over 2 seconds?
- Red, immediate; control bleeding.
- Where should you stage at a hazardous materials scene?
- Uphill and upwind, at a safe distance.
- Reference used to identify hazmat placards?
- The Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG).
- Adult epinephrine auto-injector dose for anaphylaxis?
- 0.3 mg into the outer thigh.
- Aspirin dose for suspected cardiac chest pain?
- 162 to 325 mg chewed, unless allergic or contraindicated.
- What to check before assisting with nitroglycerin?
- Systolic BP of at least 100 mmHg per local protocol and no recent erectile dysfunction drug.
- Traction splint is indicated for?
- An isolated mid-shaft femur fracture without hip, knee or ankle injury.
- Pelvic binder is centered over which landmark?
- The greater trochanters, not the iliac crests.
- Splinting rule for a long bone fracture?
- Immobilize the joint above and below; check pulse, motor and sensation before and after.
- Why is two-person BVM ventilation preferred?
- One rescuer seals the mask with both hands, giving better ventilation.
- Adult BVM rate when a pulse is present?
- One breath every 6 seconds, 10 per minute.
- What makes a patient refusal valid?
- A competent adult, informed of the risks including death, with the refusal documented and signed if possible.
- Helmet removal: who controls the head?
- One rescuer holds manual in-line stabilization while another removes the helmet.