20 My field of study: Pre-Hospital Emergency Care. terms
Hi, my name is Florence Bolduc and I want to study in Pre-Hospital Emergency Care. Right now, I am in a Springboard to a DSC in the Cégep Ahuntsic. I am waiting since August to enter in Pre-Hospital Emergency Care. This program was only offer in the autumn and last year, I failed the physics tests to enter this program that is why I am here now, waiting to try it again. Pre-Hospital Emergency Care is a technique of three years that will make students become paramedics. Paramedics is the first aid, and they take people who are hurt in an ambulance to keep them alive and take them to the hospital quickly as they can. The program has a lot of interesting course in it. They have anatomy course, field of intervention, ethics and profession, reanimation, movement of the person and a lot more.
a cardiopulmonary resuscitation
phrase
A medical procedure involving repeated compression of a patient's chest, performed in an attempt to restore the blood circulation and breathing of a person who has suffered cardiac arrest.
Example: A paramedic does a cardiopulmonary resuscitation to someone who had a heart attack.
fr: une réanimation cardiorespiratoire
a cervical collar
phrase
A cervical collar, also known as a neck brace, is a medical device used to support and immobilize a person's neck. It is also applied by emergency personnel to those who have had traumatic head or neck injuries, and can be used to treat chronic medical conditions.
Example: On a lateral movements and weakness that required a cervical collar for support.
fr: un collier cervicale
a defibrillator monitor
phrase
Sticky pads with sensors, called electrodes, are attached to the chest of someone who is having a cardiac arrest. The electrodes send information about the person's heart rhythm to a computer in the AED. The computer analyzes the heart rhythm to find out whether an electric shock is needed.
Example: Give me the defibrillator monitor, I have to save him right now.
fr: moniteur défibrillateur
a vacuum mattress
phrase
A vacuum mattress, or vac mat, is a medical device used for the immobilization of patients, especially in case of a vertebra, pelvis or limb trauma (especially for femur trauma).
Example: The vacuum mattress is put on a stretcher or possibly on a long spine board.
fr: un matelas à vide
ambulance
noun
A vehicle specially equipped for taking sick or injured people to and from the hospital, especially in emergencies.
Example: Max's mother fell and broke her leg, Max had to call an ambulance.
fr: ambulance
an oxygen mask
phrase
A mask placed over the nose and mouth and connected to a supply of oxygen, used when the body is not able to gain enough oxygen by breathing air, for example at high altitudes, or because of a medical condition.
Example: The paramedic put an oxygen mask on the patient's face to help him breath.
fr: un masque à oxygen
care
verb
The provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.
Example: The paramedics take care of the patient.
fr: soin
cargo pants
phrase
Loose-fitting casual slacks with large patch pockets on the thighs.
Example: Paramedics put cargo pants to go to work.
fr: pantalon cargo
first responder trauma care bag
phrase
It's a bag with all prim aid in it.
Example: The paramedic take the first responder trauma care bag from the ambulance.
fr: sac de soins de traumatologie pour premiers intervenants
hospital
noun
An institution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people.
Example: My mom went to the hospital because she broke her arm.
fr: hôpital
injured
verb
Harmed, damaged, or impaired.
Example: A road accident left him severely injured.
fr: blessée
intervention
noun
Action taken to improve a situation, especially a medical disorder.
Example: Two patients were referred for surgical intervention.
fr: intervention
paramedic
noun
A person who is trained to give emergency medical care to people who are injured or ill, typically in a setting outside of a hospital.
Example: My cousin is a paramedic.
fr: ambulancier
safety boots
phrase
Shoes with a protective reinforcement in the toe which protects the foot from falling objects or compression.
Example: Don't forget to put your safety boots.
fr: bottes de protection
sirens
noun
Sirens is a warning device which makes a long, loud noise. Most fire engines, ambulances, and police cars have sirens.
Example: The ambulance sirens makes a lot of noise.
fr: sirène
stethoscope
noun
A medical instrument for listening to the action of someone's heart or breathing, typically having a small disk-shaped resonator that is placed against the chest, and two tubes connected to earpieces.
Example: He examined her chest and back with a stethoscope and visually examined her throat.
fr: stéthoscope
stretcher
noun
A framework of two poles with a long piece of canvas slung between them, used for carrying sick, injured, or dead people.
Example: Get the stretcher in the ambulance now.
fr: civière
the paramedic's jacket.
phrase
The jacket paramedics are wearing during their work.
Example: A paramedic put his jacket on before going to work.
fr: la veste de l'ambulancier.
to take the pulse
phrase
To measure how fast someone's heart is beating.
Example: A paramedic take the pulse of the patient.
fr: prendre le pouls
walkie-talkie
noun
A walkie-talkie, more formerly known as a handheld transceiver (HT), is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver.
Example: The paramedic receives a call in the ambulance by the walkie-talkie.
