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Flashcards by Meagan Jaeger, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Meagan Jaeger
over 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Emergency care and transportation of the sick and injuried Chapter 1 | Chapter 1 |
| Advanced EMT (AEMT) | An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support such as intravenous therapy and the administration of certain emergency medications |
| Advanced Life support (ALS) | Advanced lifesaving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the EMT |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) | Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect individuals with disabilities against discrimination |
| Automated external defibrillator (AED) | A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient |
| Certification | A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care |
| Continuous quality improvement (CQI) | A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system |
| Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) | A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and in providing callers with vital instrucitons until the arrival of EMS crews |
| Emergency medical responder (EMR) | The first trained individual, such as a police officer, firefighter, lifeguard, or other rescuer, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance |
| Emergency medical services (EMS) | A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured |
| Emergency medical Technician (EMT) | An individual who has training in basic life support including automated external defibrillation use of a definitive airway adjunct and assisting patients with certain medications |
| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPPA) | Federal legislation passed in 1996 Its main effect in EMS is in limiting availability of patients health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy |
| Intravenous (IV) Therapy | The delivery of medication directly into the vein |
| Licensure | The process whereby a state allows individuals to perform a regulated act |
| Medical Control | Physician instructions that are given directly by radio or cell phone (online/indirect) or indirectly by protocol or guidelines (off-line/indirect) as authorized by the medical director of the service program |
| Medical Director | The physician who authorized or delegates to the EMT the authority to proved medical care in the field |
| National EMS Scope of Practice model | A document created by the national highway traffic safety administration (NHTSA) that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers |
| Paramedic | An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotraceal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring and other advanced assessment and treatment skills |
| Primary Prevention | Efforts to prevent an injury or from ever occurring |
| Primary service area (PSA) | The designated area in which the EMS service is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hosptial |
| Public health | Focused on examining the health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing health problems |
| Public safety access point | A call center staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing request for police fire fighting and ambulance services |
| Quality Control | the responsiblility of the medical director to ensure that the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMTs on each call |
| Secondary prevention | Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent |
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