Chapter 1 Vocab Flashcards
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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
Adavanced EMT
Advance lifesaving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the EMT
ALS
Advanced Life Support
Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination.
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act
A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient.
AED
Automated External Defibrillator. A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient.
A process in which a person, an institution, or program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care
Certification
A health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advance training to equip them to provide additional services in the prehospital environment, such as health evaluations, monitoring of chronic illness or conditions, and patient advocacy.
Community Paramedicine
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS System
CQI
Continuous Quality Improvement
A system that assist dispatcher 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 Dispatch
The First trained professional, such as a police officers, firefighters, lifeguard, or other rescuers, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance
EMR
Emergency Medical Responder
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
EMT
Emergency Medical Technician
Federal Legislation passed in 1996. Its main effect in EMS is in limiting availability of patients’ health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy.
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
The delivery of medication directly into a vein
IV
Intravenous Therapy
The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated act.
Licensure
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 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 withing the community rather than at a physician’s office or hospital
MIH
Mobile Integrated Healthcare
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 advance life support, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills
Paramedic
Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring
Primary Prevention
The designated area in which the ems agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital
PSA
Primary Service Area
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 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
