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medial - Correct Answers ✅toward the midline of the body lateral - Correct Answers ✅to the side, away from the midline of the body bilateral - Correct Answers ✅on both sides mid-axillary line - Correct Answers ✅a line drawn vertically from the middle of the armpit to the ankle anterior - Correct Answers ✅the front of the body or body posterior - Correct Answers ✅the back of the body or body part ventral - Correct Answers ✅referring to the front of the body. a synonym for anterior dorsal - Correct Answers ✅referring to the back of the body or the back of the hand or foot. A synonym for posterior superior - Correct Answers ✅toward the head.
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inferior - Correct Answers ✅away from the head; usually compared with another structure that is closer to the head proximal - Correct Answers ✅closer to the torso distal - Correct Answers ✅farther away from the torso torso - Correct Answers ✅the trunk of the body; the body without the head and the extremities palmer - Correct Answers ✅referring to the palm of the hand plantar - Correct Answers ✅referring to the sole of the foot mid-clavicular - Correct Answers ✅the line through the center of the clavical abdominal quadrants - Correct Answers ✅four divisions of the abdomen used to pinpoint the location of a pain or injury: the right upper quadrant, the left upper quadrant, the right lower quadrant and the left lower quadrant supine - Correct Answers ✅lying on the back
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musculoskeletal system - Correct Answers ✅system of bones and skeletal muscles that support and protect the body and permit movement skeleton - Correct Answers ✅the bones of the body muscle - Correct Answers ✅tissue that can contract to allow movement of a body part ligament - Correct Answers ✅tissue that connects bone to bone tendon - Correct Answers ✅tissue that connects muscle to bone skull - Correct Answers ✅the bony structure of the head cranium - Correct Answers ✅the top, back and sides of the skull mandible - Correct Answers ✅the lower jaw bone maxillae - Correct Answers ✅the two fused bones forming the upper jaw
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nasal bones - Correct Answers ✅the nose bones orbits - Correct Answers ✅the bony structures around the eyes, the eye sockets zygomatic arches - Correct Answers ✅form the structure of the cheeks vertebrae - Correct Answers ✅the 33 bones of the spinal column thorax - Correct Answers ✅the chest sternum - Correct Answers ✅breastbone manubrium - Correct Answers ✅the superior portion of the sternum xiphoid process - Correct Answers ✅inferior portion of the sternum pelvis - Correct Answers ✅the basin-shaped bony structure that supports the spine and is the point of proximal attachment for the lower extremities
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malleolous - Correct Answers ✅protrusion on the side of the ankle. tarsal - Correct Answers ✅ankle bone metatarsal - Correct Answers ✅the foot bone calcaneus - Correct Answers ✅the heel bone phalanges - Correct Answers ✅the toe and finger bones clavicle - Correct Answers ✅the collarbone scapula - Correct Answers ✅Shoulder Blade acromion process - Correct Answers ✅the highest portion of the shoulder acromioclavicular joint - Correct Answers ✅the joint where the acromion and the clavicle meet humerus - Correct Answers ✅the bone of the upper arm between the shoulder and the elbow
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radius - Correct Answers ✅the lateral bone of the forearm carpals - Correct Answers ✅wrist bones metacarpals - Correct Answers ✅hand bones joints - Correct Answers ✅the point where two bones come together voluntary muscle - Correct Answers ✅muscle that can be conscious controlled; attaches to bones; forms the major muscle mass of the body, responsible for movement involuntary muscle - Correct Answers ✅muscle that responds automatically to brain signals but cannot be consciously controlled cardiac muscle - Correct Answers ✅specialized involuntary muscle found only in the heart; has its own blood supply; contracts on its own automaticity - Correct Answers ✅the ability of the heart to generate and conduct electrical impulses on its own
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lungs - Correct Answers ✅the organs where exchange of atmospheric oxygen and waste carbon dioxide take place bronchi - Correct Answers ✅the two large sets of branches that come off the trachea and enter the lungs. There are right and left bronchi alveoli - Correct Answers ✅the microscopic sacs of the lungs where gas exchange with the bloodstream takes place diaphragm - Correct Answers ✅the muscular structure that divides the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity. A major muscle of respiration inhalation - Correct Answers ✅an active process in which the intercostal muscles and the diaphragm contract, expanding the size of the chest cavity and causing air to flow into the lungs exhalation - Correct Answers ✅a passive process in which the intercostal muscles and the diaphragm relax, causing the chest cavity to decrease in size and air to flow out of the lungs
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cardiovascular system/circulatory system - Correct Answers ✅the system made up of the heart and the blood vessels atria - Correct Answers ✅the two upper chambers of the heart, there is a right (receives unoxygenated blood returning from the body) and the left (which sends oxygen-rich blood to the body) ventricles - Correct Answers ✅the two lower chambers of the heart. There is a right (which sends oxygen poor blood to the lungs) and the left (sends oxygen rich blood to the body) venae cavae - Correct Answers ✅the superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava. Return blood from the body to the right atrium valve - Correct Answers ✅a structure that opens and closes to permit the flow of a fluid in only one direction cardiac conduction system - Correct Answers ✅a system of specialized muscle tissues which conduct electrical impulses that stimulate the heart to beat artery - Correct Answers ✅any blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart
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dorsalis pedis artery - Correct Answers ✅artery supplying the foot, lateral to the large tendon of the big toe arteriole - Correct Answers ✅the smallest kind of artery capillary - Correct Answers ✅a thin-walled, microscopic blood vessel where the oxygen/carbon dioxide and nutrient/waste exchange with the body's cells takes place venule - Correct Answers ✅the smallest kind of vein vein - Correct Answers ✅any blood vessel returning blood to the heart pulmonary veins - Correct Answers ✅the vessels that carry oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart Designated agent - Correct Answers ✅an EMT or other person authorized by a medical director to give medications and provide emergency car.
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Off-Line medical direction - Correct Answers ✅consists of standing orders issued by the medical director that allow EMT's to give certain medications or perform certain procedures without speaking to the medical director or another physician On-line medical direction - Correct Answers ✅consists of orders from the on-duty physician given directly to an EMT in the field by radio or telephone Medical director - Correct Answers ✅a physician who assumes ultimate responsibility for the patient care aspects of the EMS system 911 System - Correct Answers ✅a system for telephone access to report emergencies. A dispatcher takes the information and alerts EMS or the fire or police department as needed protocols - Correct Answers ✅lists of steps, such as assessments and interventions, to be taken in different situations quality improvement - Correct Answers ✅a process of continuous self-review with the purpose of identifying and correcting aspects of the system that require improvement
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PPE - Correct Answers ✅equipment that protects the EMS worker from infection and or exposure to the dangers of rescue operations standard precautions - Correct Answers ✅a strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious stress - Correct Answers ✅a state of physical and/or psychological arousal to a stimulus abandonment - Correct Answers ✅leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or great medical training confidentiality - Correct Answers ✅the obligation not to revel information obtained about a patient except to other health care professionals involved in the patient's care, or under subpoena, or in a court of law, or when the patient has signed a release of confidentiality consent - Correct Answers ✅permission from the patient for care or other action by the EMT
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crime scene - Correct Answers ✅the location where a crime has been committed or any place that evidence relating to a crime may be found DNR - Correct Answers ✅a legal document, usually signed by the patient and his physician, which states that the patient and his physician, which state that the patient has a terminal illness and does not wish to prolong life through resuscitation efforts duty to act - Correct Answers ✅an obligation to provide care to a patient expressed consent - Correct Answers ✅consent given by adults who are of legal age and mentally competent to make a rational decision in regard to their medical well-being Good Samaritan Laws - Correct Answers ✅a series of laws, varying in each state, designed, to provide limited legal protection for citizens and some health care personnel when they are administering emergency care HIPAA - Correct Answers ✅The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal law protecting the privacy of patient- specific health care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed
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RBC - Correct Answers ✅components of the blood. carry oxygen to and carbon dioxide from cells WBC - Correct Answers ✅components of the blood, produce substances that help the body fight infection platelets - Correct Answers ✅components of the blood; membrane-enclosed fragments of specialized cells pulse - Correct Answers ✅the rhythmic beats caused as waves of blood move through and expand the arteries peripheral pulses - Correct Answers ✅radial, brachial, posterior, tibial, dorsalis pedis pulses, which can be felt at peripheral points of the body central pulses - Correct Answers ✅the cartoid and femeral pulses, which can be felt in the center part of the body blood pressure - Correct Answers ✅pressure caused by blood exerting force against the walls of blood vessels, usually arterial BP is measured
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systolic BP - Correct Answers ✅pressure created in the arteries when the left ventrical contracts and forces blood out into circulation diastolic BP - Correct Answers ✅the pressure in the arteries when the left ventricle is refilling perfusion - Correct Answers ✅the supply of oxygen to and removal of wastes from the cells and tissues of the body as a result of the flow of blood through the capillaries hypoperfusion - Correct Answers ✅inadequate perfusion of the cells and tissues of the body caused by insufficient flow of blood through the capillaries Nervous system - Correct Answers ✅brain, spinal cord and nerves that govern sensation, movement and thought CNS - Correct Answers ✅brain and spinal cord PNS - Correct Answers ✅nerves that enter and leave the spinal cord and travel between the brain and organs without passing through the spinal cords
