Chapter 1 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Advanced EMT
Training in advanced life support, intravenous therapy and administration of emergency medicine.
Advanced life support
Advanced life saving procedures.
Americans with disabilities act
Protects people with disabilities against discrimination.
Automated external defibrilator
Detects treatable dysrythmias.
Community Paramedicine
More training to paramedics in prehospital care.
Continuous quality improvement
Audits on EMS crew to ensure quality
Emergency medical dispatch
Selects which units to call and provides information
Emergency medical responder
First trained person to arrive to a scene
Emergency medical services
A multidisciplinary team to provide a prehospital care
Emergency medical technician
Training in basic life support, including automated external defibrillation use of airway adjunct, and certain medications.
HIPPA
Passed in 1996, limits ammount of information that can be released.
Intravenous therapy
Medication through vein
Medical control
Physician instructions through protocol or direct
Medical Director
Authorizing physician
Mobile integrated healthcare
Delivering healthcare in the community and not at the hospital
Paramedic
Extensive training in advanced life support
Primary prevention
Preventing and injury or illness from ever occurring
Primary service area
Area the EMS is responsible for
Public Health
Examining health needs of an area and preventing problems
Public safety access point
Call center that manages requests regarding public safety
Quality control
medical directory makes sure that standards are met
Secondary prevention
Efforts to limit the effects of something that you cannot totally prevent.
