EMS Training Institute
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E- Continuing Education
September 2013- Medical
Due October 22, 2013
BLS portion:
2 hours
ALS portion: 4 hours
Complete packet:
6 hours
Basic Life Support Research and Review (reference/source: EMT Complete, 2nd ed. by Brady/Pearson)
**Note** The curriculum for all EMS levels (EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic) has changed, effective the
EMS Commission meeting in January 2011 and is now based from the National EMS Education
Standards. If you took class prior to 2012, it is highly possible that new items in the curriculum were not
included in the course. We are attempting to address the “gap” in these ECE modules.
Medical Terminology (Chapter 4)
Complete the following:
Common Root words
Common Prefixes
Common Suffixes
Artery
1.
Slow (as in pulse)
2.
Pain
3.
Blood
4.
Fast (as in pulse)
5.
Inflammation
6.
Blood vessel
7.
Before
8.
Disease/condition
9.
Vein
10.
Against
11.
Disease/condition
12.
Brain
13.
Absent
14.
Enlargement
15.
Gall bladder
16.
Double/two
17.
Stoppage
18.
Head
19.
Difficult
20.
Leak/drip
21.
Heart
22.
Within/inside
23.
Creation of opening
24.
Kidney
25.
Outside
26.
Paralysis
27.
Liver
28.
Below
29.
Numbness
30.
Lungs
31.
In between
32.
Recording
33.
Neck
34.
Within
35.
Destruction
36.
Nerve
37.
Muscle
38.
Vomit
39.
Rib
40.
Small
41.
Narrowing
42.
Skull
43.
Around
44.
Study of
45.
Stomach
46.
Fever
47.
Pertaining to
48.
Throat
49.
New
50.
Pertaining to
51.
Pathophysiology (chapter 5 and 6)
52. Cells require what two components for normal function?
53. Glucose is broken down in the cell to form ___________________________________________.
54. “The process of converting glucose with the appropriate amount of oxygen is called _______________”.
55. Normal waste products for the above are ______________ and _______________________.
56. When there is insufficient oxygen for the process answered in #54, what is the name for that process?
57. There is more or less (circle one) ATP produced with the answer to #56?
58. Additionally, when there is not sufficient oxygen to break down glucose, what other byproduct is
produced?
59. Define perfusion:
60. Define ventilation/perfusion match (V/Q match):
61. How is cardiac output calculated?
62. How is blood pressure calculated?
63. What is systemic vascular resistance?
64. Epinephrine is produced by what organ system?
65. When is epi released into the blood stream?
66. List five effects that epinephrine has on your patient:
a.
b.
67. Where are beta-1 receptors?
68. What happens when they are activated?
69. Where are beta-2 receptors?
70. What happens when they are activated?
71. What does the sodium-potassium pump do?
72. Define FiO2:
c.
d.
e.
Advanced Life Support Research and Review (Paramedic Practice Today, 2nd ed, Aehlert )
1. Which agency enforces regulation of controlled substances, in conjunction with the FDA?
2. What did the Pure Food and Drug Act establish?
3. What did the Harrison Narcotic Act establish?
4. Complete the following regarding controlled substances
Schedule
Description
Drugs in this schedule
EMS uses?
I
II
III
IV
V
5. Complete the following:
Drug class
Sympathomimetic
Sympatholytic
Cholinergic
Anticholinergic
Affects which division
of the autonomic
nervous system?
Drug examples
(List at least 2 each)
EMS Uses?
6. Give an example of the following, along with explain the mechanism of action for these medication classes:
Drug class
Examples (list at least 2 each)
Mechanism of action
Anticoagulant
Antihistamines
Beta agonist
Beta blocker
Calcium channel blocker
Cardiac glycosides
Fibrinolytics
Glycoprotein IIB/IIIA
inhibitors
H2 receptor antagonists
Neuromuscular blocking
agents
Platelet inhibitor
Xanthines
7. Complete the following:
Drug name
Indication(s)
Amyl Nitrate
Dextrose 5% in water
Lactated Ringers’
Magnesium
Naloxone
Nitrous Oxide
Oxytocin
Promethazine HCl
Thiamine
Contraindication(s)
Mechanism of action
Dose
8. Define the following:
-Oxygenation
-Ventilation
-Respiration
-internal respiration
-external respiration
9. Explain the following as it relates to muscle contraction:
Definition
ATP
Creatinine phosphate
Creatinine
Glucose
glycogen
Polarization
Depolarization
Repolarization
Action Potential
Role
10. What is the formula that depicts what transpires in the carbonic acid-bicarb buffering system?
11. Complete as it relates to PRIMARY acid-base derangement:
pH
CO2
HCO3
Causes
Normal
Respiratory acidosis
Respiratory alkalosis
Metabolic acidosis
Metabolic alkalosis
12. Complete as it relates to partially compensated and fully compensated acid-base imbalance:
Partial
compensated pH
Partial
compensated CO2
Partial
compensated
HCO3
Fully
compensated pH
Fully
compensated CO2
Respiratory
acidosis
Respiratory
alkalosis
Metabolic
acidosis
Metabolic
alkalosis
13. Complete the following as it relates to electrolyte imbalances:
Condition
Hyponatremia
Hypernatremia
Hypokalemia
Hyperkalemia
Hypocalcemia
Hypochloremia
Hyperchloremia
Hypomagnesemia
Lab values
Causes
Field presentation
Fully
compensated
HCO3