🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ What are the "six rights" of medication administration in EMS?
- ✓ Define "indication" in pharmacology.
- ✓ Define "contraindication" in pharmacology.
- ✓ Define "side effect."
- ✓ Define "untoward effect."
The drugs in an EMT scope: indication, dose, route, contraindications, and what to watch for after you give it. Structured for the kind of recall that has to survive a moving ambulance.
Right patient, right medication, right dose, right route, right time, right documentation.
A condition or situation for which a drug is appropriate to give.
A condition or situation in which a drug should NOT be given.
An unintended, usually undesired, effect of a medication at normal dosing.
An unexpected or dangerous side effect of a medication.
The official, non-proprietary chemical name (e.g., acetylsalicylic acid).
The brand name given by the manufacturer (e.g., Bayer for aspirin).
The pathway by which a drug enters the body (e.g., oral, IM, sublingual).
Sublingual.
Inhalation/nebulized.
Oral (PO).
Intramuscular (IM).
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