Exam 18: Communication Reassessment

Paramedics, in the prehospital phase, actually play for three teams.

____________________ occurs whenever a short wave strikes a reflective surface and is redirected in another direction.

Healthcare teams, ranging from primary care providers to rehabilitation services, are dedicated to helping the patient through a medical emergency.

A Paramedic's communication with the ____ team serves the patient's interests by providing the patient's past medical history, information about the history of the patient's present illness, and the patient's response to prehospital treatment.

With ____ technique, when the physician gives an order, the Paramedic should repeat the order back to the physician exactly as received.

Health care is primarily a one-to-one activity.

The telegraph has a close relationship with the development of radio.

Providing a ____ over the radio helps the emergency physician understand the Paramedic's direction and intent.

With the first cellular systems, transmissions between cellular telephones could be picked up by multiband receivers called ____________________ that monitor several radio frequencies, including those used by cellular telephones.

The ____, using digital technology, can transmit a high-quality copy from one location to another.

The first telegraph message, sent by Guglielmo Marconi in 1844, carried the message, "What hath God wrought?"

Instances of communication, called ____, occur in both oral and written forms, and take place at many times during the duration of the patient contact.

Channeled phones are low-powered wireless transmitters (radios) that work within close proximity to a radio tower.

____ eliminates background static during pauses in a transmission, essentially muting the radio between transmissions and thereby improving the message's overall quality.

____ are radios that pick up, amplify, and then retransmit a radio transmission and can extend the range of a VHF almost indefinitely.

A(n) ____ report is a brief synopsis of the scene size-up obtained by the first arriving EMS responder.

The mnemonic ____________________ can be useful for organizing the patient's information.

____ can be thought of as extraneous electromagnetic energy heard on the radio as crackles and dead spots.

The patient's ____ signs consist of temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure.

The Paramedic shares a special relationship with an emergency physician that requires a more complete disclosure of the patient's condition than would be expected from an EMT.