Emergency Medical Care Quiz

Emergency Medical Care in Kazakhstan: Services, Teams, and Procedures

• Ambulance and emergency medical care station service does not accept calls in cases of fulfilling appointments of attending physicians and carrying out planned treatment, but responds to accidents, life-threatening sudden illnesses, childbirth and pregnancy complications, and acute and exacerbation of chronic diseases.
• The main volume of emergency medical care for the population of Kazakhstan is provided by teams specializing in linear, pediatric, neurological, resuscitation, and cardiological care.
• Blood oxygen saturation in ambulance crews is determined using a pulse oximeter.
• Intensive care teams are organized in settlements with more than 70 thousand inhabitants.
• After treatment, an ambulance worker leaves the patient with a signal sheet.
• The main document of the ambulance team is the call map.
• Non-compliance by a medical worker with the standards of medical care resulting in minor harm to health is punished with a fine of 5 monthly calculation indices.
• Medical workers can be held liable for violation of labor discipline under disciplinary, collective censure, civil law, administrative, and criminal liability.
• Persistent increase in blood pressure to 165/95 mm Hg most likely indicates grade II hypertension.
• For uncomplicated hypertensive crisis, the most typical complaints are headache, tinnitus, and "flies" before the eyes.
• In primary hypertension, the target organs are the heart, brain, organ of vision, and kidneys.
• A 58-year-old patient with constricting, pressing pain behind the sternum, shortness of breath, weakness, cold sweat, and tachycardia of 110 per minute should be given emergency care with nitrates, oxygen therapy, defoamers, and morphine.