III. Vocabulary and Speech Exercises

I. Give the Ukrainian equivalents of the following from the text.

to provide aid and medical assistance; personnel trained in the rescue, transportation, and advanced treatment of traumatic emergencies; to dispatch the nearest ambulance; medically trained person; to work in teams; natural disasters and building collapses; to prevent from further injuries; prehospital environment; initial assessment; life-threatening problems; to perform a physical exam; non-acute problem

II. Match the synonyms

• aid, rescue, quickly, important, condition, hospital, stretcher, to prevent, paramedic, life-threatening, test, disease, injury, in-depth, to specialize, baby, to support, respiratory.

• damage, breathing, critical, assistance, to avert, to practice exclusively, essential, infant, state, saving, hand frame, thorough, clinic, rapidly, to sustain, analysis, ambulance attendant, illness.

III. Say if the following statement are true or false

1. Emergency medical system is a network of services coordinated to provide aid and medical assistance from primary response to definitive care.

2. In the hospital, emergency medical service is provided only by emergency department physicians.

3. The emergency medical dispatcher is the first medically trained person who comes into contact with a patient.

4. Each rescue vehicle is fully kitted with power tools and hiking equipment to enhance the assistance provided by the technician.

5. A paramedic works only in doctor’s consulting room.

6. Emergency nurses quickly recognize life-threatening problems and are trained to help solve them on the spot.

7. The emergency physician’s role is only to take the full patient’s history.

8. Critical care physician never delivers medical care to a critically ill or critically injured patient.

VI. Fill in the gaps with the correct prepositions Emergency department - what to expect

Every hospital (with/of) an emergency department aims to provide you (for/with) high quality care. Your treatment starts (as/at) soon as you step (into/onto) the emergency department. (In/On) arrival, you see the triage nurse. She assesses how serious your condition is. After that you may be asked to wait (into\in) the waiting room. It depends (on/for) how busy the department is (at/in) the time. If your problem can be treated (on/in) the department, the emergency staff will treat it. They may also suggest treatment (in/at) home or (by/with) your local doctor. Mobile phones must be turned off before going (into/onto) the treatment area, as they may interfere (with/from) hospital equipment. Sometimes, the emergency staff may need to transfer you (to/at) another hospital (from/for) your treatment. (Until/Since) then, you are cared for (in/on) the emergency department.

V. Match the term and its definition

1. … - people who need to have treatment immediately or within two minutes. People in this group are critically ill and require immediate attention. They would probably be suffering from a critical injury or cardiac arrest.

2. … - people who need to have treatment within 10 minutes. They suffer from critical illness or are in very severe pain

3. … people who need to have treatment within 30 minutes. They suffer from severe illness, bleed heavily from cuts, and have major fractures.

4. … - people who need to have treatment within one hour. They have less severe symptoms or injuries, such as foreign body in the eye, sprained ankle, migraine or ear ache.

5. … - people who need to have treatment within two hours. They have minor illnesses or symptoms that may have been present for more than a week, such as rashes or minor aches and pains.

Potentially life threatening patients; imminently life threatening patients; less urgent patients; potentially serious patients; immediately life threatening patients.