CHAPTER 1 EMS SYSTEMS Flashcards
LEARNING EMS (27 cards)
A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers
National Scope of Practice Model
An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous theraphy, and the administration of certain emergency medications.
Advanced EMT (AEMT)
A health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to equip them to provide additional services in the prehopsital environment, such as health evaluations, monitoring of chronic illnessess or conditions, and patient advocacy.
Community Paramedicine
An approach to medicine where decisions are based on well-conducted research, classifying recommendations based on the strength of the scientific evidence; also called science-based medicine.
Evidence-Based Medicine
The designated area in which the EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital emgergency care and transportation to the hospital.
Primary Service Area
The delivery of medication directly into a vein
intravenous theraphy
An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a particular profession, or to function as an organization
Credentialing
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
emergency medical technician
The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field
medical director
oversight by the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMTs on each call
quality control
An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills
Paramedic
Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination
Americans with disabilities act
The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated act
licensure
A method of delivering health care that involes providing health care within the community rather than at a physician’s office or hospital
mobile integrated health care
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
emergency medical dispatch
Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidlines (off-line/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service program
medical control
A multidsciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured
emergency medical services
The branch of medicine that is focused on examining the health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing health problems
Public Health
Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent
secondary prevention
Federal legislation passed in 1996. Its main effect in EMS is limiting availability of patients health care information and penalizing violtations of patient privacy
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occuring
primary prevention
A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient
automated external defibrillator (AED)
Advaced life-saving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the EMT
advanced life support (ALS)
A trained professional, such as police officer, firefighter, lifeguard, or other rescuer, who may arrive first at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance
emergency medical responder
