Chapter 1: EMS Systems Flashcards
(27 cards)
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 life-saving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the EMT.
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination.
Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias 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.
Community Paramedicine
A health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to provide additional services in the prehospital environment, such as health evaluations, monitoring of chronic illnesses or conditions, and patient advocacy
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system aiming at improving outcomes.
Credentialing
An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to practice a particular profession or to function as an organization.
Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD)
A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance.
Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
A first trained professional, such as a police officer, firefighter, or lifeguard, who may arrive first 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 and assisting patients with certain medications.
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)?
An approach to medicine where decisions are based on well-conducted research, classifying recommendations based on the strength of the scientific evidence.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
Federal legislation passed in 1996 that limits the availability of patients’ health care information and penalizes violations of patient privacy.
Intravenous (IV) Therapy
The delivery of medication directly into a vein.
Licensure?
The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated act.
Medical Control
Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidelines (off-line/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service program.
Medical Director?
The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field.
Mobile Integrated Health Care (MIH)
A method of delivering health care that involves providing health care within the community rather than at a physician’s office or hospital.
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 endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology , cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills
Primary Prevention
Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
Primary Service Area
The designated area in which the EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.
Public Health
The branch of medicine that is focused on examining the health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing health problems.
