Prehospital Emergency Care, Tenth Edition, meets the National EMS Education Standards and is the most complete resource for EMT-B training.This best-selling, student-friendly book contains clear, step-by-step explanations with comprehensive, stimulating, and challenging material that prepares users for real on-the-job situations.
the structure of the body and the relationship of its parts to each other. | |
The patient is standing erect, facing forward, with arms down at the sides and palms forward. | |
The patient is lying face up on his back. | |
The patient is lying on his back with his upper body elevated at a 45° to 60° angle. | |
The patient is lying on his back with the upper body elevated at an angle less than 45° | |
The patient is lying on his back with the legs elevated higher than the head and body on an inclined plane. | |
Alternative to the Trendelenburg position,where only the feet and legs are elevated approximately 12 inches. | |
a vertical plane that runs lengthwise and divides the body into right and left segments. Doesn't have to be equal haves. | |
VerticAl plane that runs lengthwise and divides the body into equal right and left segments. | |
Parallel with the ground and divides the body into upper and lower halves | |
Vertical line through the middle of the patient's body, beginning at the top of the head and continuing down through the nose and the navel and to the ground between the legs. | |
Vertical line drawn from the middle of the patient's armpit down to the ankle. | |
the four parts of the abdomen as divided by imaginary horizontal and vertical lines through the umbilicus | Lower Left Quad., Lower Right Quad., Upper Left Quad., Upper Right Quad. |
Consists of bony framework, or skeleton, held together by ligaments, layers of muscles, tendons and various other connective tissues | |
rests at the top of the spinal column and houses and protects the brain and is divided into two parts | |
Forms the top, back and sides of the skull plus the forehead. | |
Irregularly shaped blocks of bone that make up the spinal column | |
Fluid-filled pad of tough elastic cartilage between two vertebrae | |
The 12 thoracic vertebrae that are directly inferior to the cervical spine form the upper back | |
The 5 vertebrae that form the lower back and are the least mobile of the vertebrae | |
The 5 vertebrae that are fused together to form the rigid part of the posterior side of the pelvis | |
The last four vertebrae that are fused together and do not have the protrusions characteristic of the other vertebrae | |
doughnut-shaped structure that consists of several bones, including the sacrum and the coccyx | |
The weight-bearing bone located at the anterior and medial side of the leg | |
attached to the tibia at the top and is located at the lateral side of the leg parallel to the tibia | |
part of the ulna that forms the bony prominence of the elbow | |
Bending toward the body or decreasing the angle between the bones or parts of the body | |
Straightening away from the body or increasing the angle between the bones or parts of the body | |
A combination of the four preceding motions as is possible with the shoulder joint | |
Turning the forearm so the palm of the hand is turned toward the back | |
Turning the forearm so the palm of the hand is turned toward the front | |
Type of joint that permits the widest range of motion- flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and rotation | |
Where one bone slides across another to the pint where surrounding structures restrict the motion | |
Shaped to permit combinations of limited movements along perpendicular planes | the ankle allows the foot to turn inward slightly as it moves up and down |
Modified ball-and-socket joint that permits limited motion in two directions | Wrist allows the hand to move up and down and side to side, but not to rotate completely |
Can be contracted and relaxed by will of the individual. Makes deliberate movement possible. | Walking, chewing, swallowing, smiling, frowning, talking |
Made up of large fibers that carry out the automatic muscular functions of the body through rhythmic, wavelike movements | Moving blood through the veins, bile from the gallbladder. |
special kind of involuntary muscle particularly suited for the work of the heart | |
The process of moving oxygen and carbon dioxide across membranes, in and out of the alveoli, capillaries, and cells. | |
The form of respiration in which oxygen molecules move across a membrane from an area of high oxygen concentration to an area of low oxygen concentration. | |
The mechanical process by which air is moved in and out of the lungs. | |
The organs involved in the exchange of gases between an organism and the atmosphere | |
a firm, full ring of cartilage that forms the lower edge of the larynx |