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Chapter 1 EMS education

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An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy and the administration of certain emergency medications.
AEMT (Advanced Emergency Medical Technician)
Advanced life saving procedures, including cardiac monitoring, administration of intravenous fluids and medications, and the use of advanced airway adjuncts. EMTs may be trained in these areas.
Advanced life support (ASL)
Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination.
Americans with disabilities act (ADA)
A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient.
Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
A process in which a person, institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting a certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical patient care.
Certification
A health model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to equip them to provide additional services in the pre-hospitical environment. Such as health evaluations, monitoring of chronic illnesses or conditions and patient advocacy.
Community paramedicine.
A system of internal and external reviews/audits of all aspects of the EMS system
Continuous quality improvement (CQI)
A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.
EMD (emergency medical dispatcher)
The first trained professional, such as a police officer, firefighter, lifeguard, or other rescuer, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance until medical assistance arrives.
EMR (emergency medical responder)
A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide pre-hospital emergency care to the sick and injured.
EMS (Emergency medical services)
An individual who knows basic life support, including AED, use of a definitive airway adjunct, and assisting patient with certain medications.
EMT (emergency medical technician)
Federal legislation passed in 1966. It's main effect in EMS is in limiting availability of patients' health care information and penalizing violations of privacy.
HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
The delivery of medication directly into a vein
Intravenous (IV) therapy
The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to preform a regulated act.
licensure
Physician instructions given directly by radio or ell phone or indirectly by protocol/guidelines, as authorized by the medical director of the service program.
Medical control
The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field
medical director
A method of delivering health care which involves providing health care within the community rather than at a physician's office or hospital.
mobile integrated health care (MIH)
A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers.
National EMS scope of practice model.
an individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment skills.
Paramedic
Effort to prevent an injury or illness from ever occuring
primary prevention
The designated area in which the EMS agency is responsible for the provision of pre-hospital care and transportation.
Primary service area (PSA)
Focused on examining the health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing health problems.
Public health
A call center, staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, fire, and ambulance services.
Public safety access point
The responsibility of the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMT's on each call.
Quality control
Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent.
secondary prevention
The ability to take appropriate action with little direction is known as...
self-motivation
What is an EMT's primary service area?
The main area in which the EMS agency operates
You are caring for a driver who struck a light pole. She admits to drinking alcohol but orders you not to tell anyone. You should report the information to...
the receiving doctor or nurse.
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