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What is tympanic temperature
The name of a temperature reading taken from the ear canal.
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What is glasgow coma scale
a clinical scale used to reliably measure a person's level of consciousness after a brain injury by assessing their ability to perform eye movements, speak, and move their body
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What is oxygen
The only medication that can be given by an EMT without medical direction.
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What is Main Street
The road which divides the north and south streets in Centralia.
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What is 10 drops per mL
The most commonly used tubing for spiking an IV bag.
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What is 20-600mg/dL
The readable range of our field glucometers.
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What is 80mmHg
Palpable radial arteries occur at this systolic pressure.
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Who is the patient’s primary care physician
This non-EMS party may act as medical control on scene without authorization from PCH or MGH.
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What is Reynolds Rd/Blakeslee Junction
A busy railroad crossing in Centralia with no reasonable bypass
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What is green
This is the hub color of an 18g IV catheter
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What is APGAR score
A method for evaluating the status of a newborn infant immediately after birth and the response to resuscitation if needed. It is performed 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth.
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What is an isolated mid-shaft femur fracture
The only condition in which it is appropriate to apply a Sager traction splint.
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What is CENCOMM
Radio duress code for FIRE/EMS. This word, accompanied with your unit number, will prompt CENTRAL to confirm your unit number and location then lock the channel. It’s only to be used in situations where plain english would endanger your life.
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What is Tower Avenue
The road which divides the east and west streets in Centralia
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What is 4th intercostal space on either side of the sternum.
The anatomical location of V1 and V2
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What is a myocardial infarction
Damage or death to part of the heart muscle as a result of ischemia.
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What is Cushings Triad
Bradycardia, hypertension, and irregular respirations indicating increased intracranial pressure and possibly ischemia of the brain or immanent brainstem herniation
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What is Wong-Baker scale
A scale used to assess pain in pediatrics, geriatrics, or any patient with a language barrier. It uses faces to correspond with a numeric value of pain.
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What is Main Street.
This road connects Market Street to I-5 as well as Hwy 6, but is often avoided during response due to the presence of 2 railroad crossings.
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What is a 10mL syringe
This size of syringe is used to inflate the distal cuff of an endotracheal tube.
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What is auscultatory gap OR le trou auscultatoire
a 10-15mmHg interval of absolute or relative silence occasionally found on listening over an artery during deflation of the blood pressure cuff
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What is Kehr’s sign
This acute pain occurs in the tip of the shoulder due to the presence of blood/irritants in the peritoneal cavity when a person is trendelenburg; considered a classic sign of splenic rupture
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Who are PCH and MGH
These two institutions act as online medical control for all EMS providers in Lewis County.
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What is Bunker Creek Road
M1 is first closer than M2 and is first up to respond on the southern portion of this road in RFA’s response area.
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What is a size 1
A unresponsive 4,000g female with no gag-reflex would receive this size of I-Gel.
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