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This 72-card flashcard set covers patient assessment fundamentals for EMS and healthcare certification courses. Topics span vital signs (pulse, blood pressure, pulse oximetry), physical examination techniques (auscultation, palpation, capillary refill), and clinical terminology including AVPU, SAMPLE history, OPQRST, triage, and primary/secondary assessments. Use it for EMS certification exam preparation, clinical course review, or self-study of assessment protocols.

Subject:
Professional Training
Topic:
Healthcare
Grade Level:
9th – 12th Grades
Updated May 2025

Terms in This Set

  • Accessory Muscles
  • Altered Mental Status
  • Auscultate
  • Breath Sounds
  • Capillary Refill
  • Capnography
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Chief Complaint
  • Conjunctiva
  • Crackles
  • Crepitus
  • AVPU
  • Blood Pressure
  • Bradycardia
  • Cyanosis
  • Diaphoresis
  • Diastolic Pressure
  • Distracting Injury
  • Field Impression
  • Focused Assessment
  • Frostbite
  • General Impression
  • Golden Hour
  • Guarding
  • History Taking
  • Hypertension
  • Hypotension
  • Hypothermia
  • Incident Command System
  • Jaundice
  • Labored Breathing
  • Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP)
  • Mechanism of Injury (MOI)
  • Metabolism
  • Nasal Flaring
  • Nature of Illness (NOI)
  • OPQRST
  • Orientation
  • Palpate
  • Paradoxical Motion
  • Perfusion
  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Pertinent Negatives
  • Primary Assessment
  • Pulse
  • Pulse Oximetry
  • Reassessment
  • Responsiveness
  • Retractions
  • Rhonchi
  • SAMPLE history
  • Scene Size-up
  • Sclera
  • Secondary Assessment
  • Shallow Respirations
  • Sign
  • Situational Awareness
  • Sniffing Position
  • Spontaneous Respirations
  • Standard Precautions
  • Stridor
  • Subcutaneous Emphysema
  • Symptom
  • Systolic Pressure
  • Tachycardia
  • Tidal Volume
  • Triage
  • Tripod Position
  • Dyspnea
  • Vasoconstriction
  • Vital Signs
  • Wheezing

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