Become an EMT Specialization

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EMT Foundations: Introduction to EMT
Care occurring outside of a hospi...,
Describe the early days of ems 2,
What marked the turning point in ...
31  cards
EMT Foundations: What does it mean to be an EMT
What establishes the roles and re...,
What are the roles and responsibl...,
How do i ensure my safety 3
15  cards
EMT Foundations: This Can Be A Hard Job Emotionally
How should one treat an unrespons...,
I think of notifying family that ...,
The five emotional stages of dying 3
10  cards
EMT Foundations: Medical and Legal Issues
Who determines scope of pratice 1,
Scope of practice is different fr...,
Who establishes protocols 3
38  cards
EMT Foundations: HIPAA/EMTALA and Job Errors
What does hipaa stand for 1,
What does hipaa do 2,
Example of a hipaa violation 3
12  cards
Basic Human Anatomy: Medical terminology
Anatomic position 1,
Midclavicular line 2,
What are the front and back called 2
31  cards
Basic Human Anatomy: Head and Torso
What does our skeletal system do 1,
Head and neck what is the head ma...,
What system do our bones make up 1
31  cards
Basic Human Anatomy: Extremities
What allows us to move 1,
What are joints 2,
What are main parts of joints 3
30  cards
Basic Human Anatomy: Muscular Systems
The three muscle types 1,
What are the cardiac mussle cells 2,
What is the smooth muscles and wh...
28  cards
Basic Human Anatomy: Nervous and Endocrine Systems
The nervous system can be separat...,
What are the main functions of th...,
Starting at the base of the brain...
22  cards
Basic Human Anatomy: Respiratory System
The respiratory system involves y...,
Let s follow the path a breath ta...,
After the nose and mouth it moves...
18  cards
Basic Human Anatomy: Cardiovascular Systems
Let s jump right into another rea...,
What is the heart 2,
What does cardio mean and what do...
20  cards
Basic Human Anatomy: Gastrointestinal and Renal Systems
Gastrointestinal system 1,
If you grabbed a snack your food ...,
Secretions 2
17  cards
Basic Human Anatomy:Male Reproductive system
What are the main things in the m...,
What systems are the penis and th...,
What does the penis conssit of 3
42  cards
Basic Human Anatomy: Female Reproductive System
The external female genital struc...,
The external female genital struc...,
Mons pubis 3
43  cards
Basic Human Anatomy: Skin
The skin is by far the largest or...,
Layers of the skin 2,
Deep to the epidermis are the con...
5  cards
Communication With a Healthcare Provider: EMT Communication
Let s break down the communicatio...,
First we will discuss the base st...,
Are radios important to ems commu...
26  cards
Communication With a Healthcare Provider: EMT Communication 2
One of the most important aspects...,
How can one establish rapport 2,
What do you do once you ve demons...
21  cards
Vital Signs and History Taking: Vital signs (Adult Vital Signs)
Heart rate beats per minute norma...,
Blood pressure mmhg normal range 2,
Heart rate beats per minute tachy...
12  cards
Vital Signs and History Taking: Vital Signs
Typical set of vital signs 1,
Why are vital signs so important 2,
What is blood pressure 3
30  cards
Vital Signs and History Taking: Blood pressure
How is bp repersetned 1,
Is bp static 2,
What is systole what number repre...
24  cards
Vital Signs and History Taking: Pulse
What is pulse 1,
What is a pulse site 2,
Is pulse static 2
23  cards
Vital Signs and History Taking: Respiratory Rate
What is respiration 1,
Counting respirations is slightly...,
How to calculate respiration if m...
33  cards
Vital Signs and History Taking: Skin and Pupils
In this video we will talk about ...,
The skin 2,
We will discuss four aspects of s...
21  cards
Vital Signs and History Taking: History Taking
What is history taking 1,
What is the first thing you shoul...,
Differential diagonoses 2
25  cards
Immediately Upon Arrival To The Scene: Scene Size Up or Safety, Body Substance Isolation, Scene Assessment
What is the first part to any ems 1,
What is a run 2,
A 911 ems call also called a run ...
44  cards
Immediately Upon Arrival To The Scene: Patient Assessment
First step of patient assessment 1,
In ems we usually categorize our ...,
Sick patient 3
33  cards
Immediately Upon Arrival To The Scene: Secondary Assessment and Reassessment
Once you have determined whether ...,
Once you have determined what is ...,
Physical exam 3
18  cards
Medical Emergencies: Airway, Breathing, and Circulation: Pharmacology Basics: Medical Assessment
A cornerstone in medicine is your...,
As you already learned the founda...,
Body substance isolation precauti...
19  cards
Pharmacology Basics: Pharmacology Basics
Pharmacology 1,
Medication 2,
Every medication is described by 3
19  cards
Pharmacology Basics: Medication Administration
Oral administration 1,
The second type of mucosal admini...,
Similar to oral administration is...
8  cards
Airway and Breathing: Airway and Breathing
Abc s 1,
How about a quick anatomy review ...,
The respiratory system is the org...
21  cards
Airway and Breathing: Assessment of Airway and MOANS
Assessment of the airway and brea...,
When we talk about performing an ...,
In addition to airway patency or ...
23  cards
Airway and Breathing: Breathing and Respiratory Equipment
Airway interventions include oxyg...,
The nasal cannula 2,
The simple mask 3
12  cards
Airway and Breathing: Opening an Airway
Hen a patient is less responsive ...,
Suctioning is another way to clea...,
Jaw thrust maneuver 3
13  cards
Airway and breathing: Medications and Management
There are two different ways to d...,
These medications will commonly b...,
Contraindications of mdi 3
16  cards
Respiratory Emergencies: Airway Trouble and Asthma
What is respiratory status 1,
Alveoli 2,
Airway pathology can be divided i...
23  cards
Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis and Respiratory Assessment
Okay now you understand asthma an...,
Why do patients with emphysema ex...,
Treatment for chronic bronchitis 3
13  cards
Other Respiratory Emergencies
As you have learned the ability t...,
Perhaps the most common restricti...,
Patients with fibrosis 3
25  cards
Cardiovascular Emergencies: Inro to Heart, Cardiac Conduction, Cardiac Contraction
Facts about the heart 1,
Myocardium 2,
How does the electrical cardiac c...
28  cards
Vascular System and Blood
The two major vessels in the body...,
Remember that blood leaves the he...,
What do arteries vs veins 2
28  cards
Cardiac Pathology and Atypical Chest Pain and Other Cardiac Pathologies
Scenario time you and your partne...,
The umbrella term for pathology o...,
When someone is having chest pain...
22  cards
Cardiac Arrest and Treatment of ACS
What does the cardiac tissue do 1,
What do dead or dying tissues do 2,
Dead or dying tissue disrupts 3
24  cards
Heart Failure and Syncope
Heart failure 1,
There are many causes of heart fa...,
There are two types of heart fail...
24  cards
Neurological Emergencies: Brain and Nervous System Physiology, headaches, seizures
The nervous system is separated i...,
The cns 2,
The pns 3
28  cards
Stroke and TA, Endocrine System Physiology
Blank 1,
1 2,
Blank 3
24  cards
Diabetes and Altered Mental Status
What happens to feedback in diabt...,
Type 1 diaebtes vs type 2 2,
What causes an increase of glusoc...
15  cards
Medical Emergencies: CPR, Toxicology, and Wilderness: Shock, categories of shock, stages of shock, evaluation and Treatment of shock
What is shock 1,
One of the causes of shock is due...,
Another basic cause of shock inad...
30  cards
Cardiac Arrest Overview and principles
Welcome to this part of the modul...,
So how do you recognize cardiac a...,
If you are not made aware before ...
17  cards
High Performance Resuscitation and Other Cardiac Arrest Considerations
In sudden cardiac arrest with ven...,
What can hiigh perofmfrmace cpr do 2,
Chest compressions done correctly 3
12  cards
Toxicology and Substance and Substance Abuse: Intro and Common substances of Abuse
There s a whole field of medicine...,
Poison 2,
Toxin 3
29  cards
Ohter substances of Abuse, The Assessment of poisoned Patient and Treatment
Let s start with one more substan...,
What do cannabis products cause 2,
Additionally there are synthetic ...
15  cards
Psychiatric Diseases, Behavioral Emergencies
Anxiety 1,
One of the most notable presentat...,
One common result is the patient ...
10  cards
Not all Who Wander are Tox: Environmental emergencies, Hypothermic patent and management
Environmental emergencies happen ...,
A thermo receptor 2,
In order to understand how this i...
23  cards
Hyperthermic Patient, When Lighting Strikes, Altitude and weather
A patient can be too cold or hypo...,
Heat cramps 2,
Heat exhaustion 3
23  cards
Blood and Guts: My Stomach Hurts, Digestive Tact Disorders
Frequently in medicine we divide ...,
So let s jump in to what we find ...,
Dividing the abdomen into quadran...
27  cards
Liver Disease and the Aorta, Renal Emergencies
Liver 1,
Causes of liver dysfunction 2,
One of the most notable symptoms ...
26  cards
Ovaries and Testes, Abdominal Pain
Pelvic inflammatory disease 1,
Ectopic pregnancies 2,
Does the patient have rebound ten...
7  cards
Blood Disorders
There are a couple of processes t...,
The next blood disorder we will t...,
For blood to clot it needs three ...
9  cards
What is Trauma, Basic Management of Trauma Patient, Mechanism of Injury (kinetics/blunt)
Trauma 1,
Trauma statistics 2,
Blank 3
39  cards
Bullets and Blasts, Trauma Assessment (Unstable/stable)
Remember penetrating injuries or ...,
Penetrating injuries are classifi...,
Low velocity injuries 3
13  cards
Introduction to Bleeding, Management of External Bleeding, Internal Hemorrhage and Bleeding Severity
How does blood flow in the heart 1,
Arteries 2,
What is bleeding 3
29  cards
Hemorrhagic Shock, Management of Bleeding Patient, MCI
There are two types of hemorrhage 1,
We remember that shock is a state 2,
Blank 3
24  cards
Triage and Distribution, Disaster, and Debrief
Ow that you know the important pr...,
Patients triage green 2,
Patients that are triaged yellow 2
12  cards
Soft Tissue Injury and Burns: Open and Closed Injury, Soft Tissue Assessment and Treatment
We will begin with some basic def...,
Recall from your anatomy that the...,
The various closed injuries inclu...
29  cards
Burn Definitions, Burn Systems and TBSA Calculation, The Assessment and Treatment of Burns, Burn Special Considerations
How is brun severity classfied 1,
Superficial burns 2,
Partial thickness burns 3
38  cards
Musculoskeletal Injury Basics, Musculoskeletal special Considerations, Musculoskeletal Assessment and Treatment,
Fracture 1,
Hairline fracture 2,
Displaced comminuted fracture 3
28  cards
Trauma By System: Head Injuries, Spinal Cord and Column Injuries, The Approach and Treatment of the Head and Spinal Injury Patient
In this video we will cover injur...,
An epidural hematoma 2,
We will start with injuries that ...
31  cards
Face Trauma and chest trauma
Let s do a quick anatomy review t...,
The neck also has some 2,
Finally as you ve learned previou...
20  cards
Ab Trauma Genitourinary Truama
Hollow organs 1,
Solid organs 2,
Penis and scotrum 2
13  cards

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