FREE PARAMEDICEMT AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AEMT

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FREE PARAMEDIC/EMT AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AEMT

NREMT VOCAB EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Hepatitis

Answer:

inflammation of live, usually caused by a virus, that causes loss of appetite, fever, jaundiced, fatigue, and altered liver function.

Question 2: Infection

Answer:

the invasion of a host or host tissue by organism such as bacteria, viruses, or parasites, with or with signs or symptoms of disease

Question 3: ethnocentrism

Answer:

when a person considers his or her cultural values as more important when interacting with people of different culture

Question 4: foodborne transmission

Answer:

the contamination of water or food with an organism that can cause disease

Question 5: Acute Stress Reaction

Answer:

reaction to stress that occurs during a stressful situation

Question 6: Delayed Stress Reaction

Answer:

reaction to stress that occurs after a stressful situation

Question 7: Airborne Transmission

Answer:

a spread of an organism in aerosol form

Question 8: pertinent negative findings

Answer:

findings that warrant no medical care or intervention, but which, by seeking them, show evidence the thoroughness of the patient examination and history

Question 9: Bloodborne pathogens

Answer:

Pathogenic microorganism that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans. these pathogens include, but are not limited to, hepatitis B virus and human immunodeficiency virus

Question 10: Federal Communications Commission

Answer:

FCC- the federal agency that has jurisdiction other interstate and international telephone and telegraph services and satellite communications, all of which may involve EMS activity

Question 11: infection control

Answer:

procedures to reduce transmission of infection among patients and health care personnel

Question 12: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Answer:

the primary federal agency that conducts and supports public health activities in the United States. The CDC is part of the US department of health and human services

Question 13: scanner

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a radio receiver that searches or scans across several frequencies until the message is completed; the process is then repeated

Question 14: open-ended questions

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Questions for which the patient must provide detail to give a answer

Question 15: enhanced 911

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an emergency response system in which much of the call information, such as the phone number and location of the caller, is recorded automatically and viewed by the dispatcher on a computer screen

Question 16: communicable disease

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any disease that can be spread from person to person or from animal to person

Question 17: Center for disease control and prevention

Answer:

the primary federal agency that conducts and supports public health activities in the united states. the CDC is part of the US department of Health and HUman services.

Question 18: Infection Control

Answer:

Procedures to reduce transmission of infection among patient and health care personnel.

Question 19: Emergency Medical Services

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a multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to sick and injured people.

Question 20: critical incident stress management (CISM)

Answer:

a process that confronts responses to critical incidents and defuses them

Question 21: Patient care reports

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a written record of the incident that describes the nature of the patient's injuries or illness at the scene and treatment you provide.

Question 22: exposure

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a situation in which a person has had contact with blood, body fluids, tissues, or airbourne particles that increase the risk of disease transmission

Question 23: food borne transmission

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the contamination of food or water with an organism that can cause disease

Question 24: Transmission

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the way un which an infectious agent is spread: contact, airborne, by vehicle, or by vectors

Question 25: licensure

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the process whereby a state allows qualified people to perform a regulated act

Question 26: Critical Incident stress management (CISM)

Answer:

A process that confronts responses to critical incidents and defuses them.

Question 27: Human immunodeficiency Virus

Answer:

HIV- acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is cause HIV , which damages the cell in the body's immune system so that the body is unable to fight infection or certain cancers

Question 28: Protocols

Answer:

Are described in a comprehensive guide delineating the scope of practice for emts