Alaska State EMT II
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Role of EMT II | Assume responsibility of all lower medics, responsible for on-line conversation, Scene security, Patient Advocate |
| Ethics | that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions |
| Certification | Issued by an Agency or Association |
| License | State or Government issued to work in given occupation |
| EMS Director | Must be Licensed, covers you as far as what you can do. Issues protocols, must provide quarterly review of Pt care. |
| Advanced Directives | Advance directives are legal documents that allow you to convey your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time |
| Tort | A tort is an act that causes harm to another and is either intentional or negligent. Tort claims are based on the premise that individuals are liable for the consequences of their conduct if it results in injury to others. Read more at Suite101: The Law of Negligence: Duty, Breach of Duty, Injury & Causation http://www.suite101.com/content/the-law-of-negligence-a105023#ixzz183GIp5lI |
| Alaska Comfort One | The Comfort One Program was established in 1996 to help health care providers identify terminally-ill people who have expressed these wishes. State regulations contain a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) protocol for physicians and other health care providers which sets out a standardized procedure for the withholding of CPR from patients who have chosen to participate in the DNR program |
| malfeasance | the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing |
| Misfeasance | will be liable for misfeasance if the defendant owed a duty of care toward the plaintiff, the defendant breached that duty of care by improperly performing a legal act, and the improper performance resulted in harm to the plaintiff. |
| Nonfeasance | The intentional failure to perform a required duty or obligation |
| HIPAA | Health, Insurance, Portability, Accountability, Act |
| Negligence | The failure to use reasonable care. The doing of something which a reasonably prudent person would not do, or the failure to do something which a reasonably prudent person would do under like circumstances |
| Proximate Cause | If it played any part, no matter how small, in bringing about the injury or damage. |
| Negligence | Duty to Act Breach of Duty Proximate Cause Actual Damage |
| burns that must be reported | 5% or more of body with 2nd or 3rd degree burns Upper Respiratory Burns |
| Mandatory Reporting | Bullet Wound/Powder Burns, Any injury apparently caused by sharp object that was accidental, injury that could cause the death of the patient unless clearly accidental. |
| Sympathetic System | Fight or Flight (effected by epi & norepi |
| Parasympathetic System | Feed or breed |
| Ventilation | Movement of Air (Breathing) |
| Respiration | Exchange of Gases across membranes |
| Oxygenation | Movement of 02 molecules onto the red blood cells to the tissues |
| Fick Principle | the Fick principle was first devised as a technique for measuring cardiac output |
| Perfusion | the passage of a fluid through a specific organ or an area of the body. a therapeutic measure whereby a drug intended for an isolated part of the body is introduced via the bloodstream. |
| Cheyne Stokes | An abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by a gradual increase in depth and sometimes in rate to a maximum depth, followed by a decrease resulting in apnea, usually seen in comatose individuals having diseased nervous centers of respiration. |
| Biots | Abrupt and irregularly alternating periods of apnea with periods of breathing that are consistent in rate and depth, often the result of increased intracranial pressure. |
| Apnea | Brief pauses in breathing |
| Kussmaul breathing | A abnormal respiratory pattern characteized by rapid, deep breathing, often seen in patients with metabolic acidosis. |
| Types of Law | Legislative, Common, Criminal, Administrative, Civil |
| Legislative Law | Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking |
| Common Law | was devised as a means of compensating someone for wrongful acts known as torts, including both intentional torts and torts caused by negligence and as developing the body of law recognizing and regulating contracts |
| Criminal Law | That body of the law that deals with conduct considered so harmful to society as a whole that it is prohibited by statute, prosecuted and punished by the government |
| Administrative Law | Body of rules, regulations and orders formulated by a government body (such as an environment management agency) responsible for carrying out statute law. Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/administrative-law.html#ixzz183NsK4F8 |
| Civil Law | often used as a means to resolve disputes involving accidents (torts such as negligence), libel and other intentional torts |
| Vascular Vessel Structure | Tunica Adventitia (outside/connective tissue) Tunica Media (muscle of vessel) Tunica Entima (slick) |
| Layers of the Skin | Epidermus Dermus Subcutaneous |
| semi-permeable membrane | a membrane (as a cell membrane) that allows some molecules to pass through but not others |
| Osmosis | diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower concentration until the concentration on both sides is equal |
| Osmotic Pressure | A hydrostatic pressure caused by a difference in the amounts of solutes between solutions that are separated by a semi-permeable membrane. |
| Diffusion | the process by which molecules spread from areas of high concentration, to areas of low concentration |
| Isotonic Fluids | denoting a solution in which body cells can be bathed without net flow of water across the semipermeable cell membrane. |
| Hypotonic | denoting a solution having less osmotic pressure than one with which it is compared. causes cells to swell |
| Hypertonic | denoting a solution having greater osmotic pressure than the solution with which it is compared. Causes cells to shrink |
| Homiostasis | a tendency to equilibrium or stability in the normal physiological states of the organism. Balance the body fights for in respect to fluids. |
| Intracellular fluid | pertaining to the interior of a cell. Fluid within the cell |
| Extracellular Fluid | Fluid located or occurring outside a cell or cells. |
| Interstitial Fluid | the extracellular fluid bathing most tissues, excluding the fluid within the lymph and blood vessels. |
| Total body water | all the water within the body, including intracellular and extracellular water plus the water in the GI and urinary tracts. |
| Negligence | Duty to Act Breach of Duty Proximate Cause Actual Damage |
| Number of Vertebrae | 33 total 7 cervical 12 thoracic 5 lumbar 5 saccrum 4 cocxyx |
| Blood Components | Plasma Red Blood Cells White Blood Cells Platelets |
| Hypoxia | Not enough O2 for metabolic needs, Develops when patient is: breathing inadequately not breathing |
| Dsypnea | Difficulty breathing, shortness of breath |
| Tachypnea | rapid breathing |
| Pnemothorax | Accumulation of Air in the Pleural Space |
| Shock | Inadequate tissue perfussion |
| Acidotic (acidosis) | Ph below 7.3 |
| Alcolotic (alcolosis) | Ph above 7.45 |
| Ischemia | Ischemia is an insufficient supply of blood to an organ, usually due to a blocked artery. |
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