Chapter 4 Flashcards
A low power portable radio that communicates through an interconnected series of repeater statins called “cells”
Cellular Telephone
Any radio hardware containing a transmitter and reciever that is located in a fixed place
Base Station
An assigned frequency or frequencies that are used to carry voice and/or data communications
Channel
Can be answered in short or single word responses
Close ended questions
The transmission of information to another person…verbally or body language
Communication
When one person imposes his or beliefs, values, and practices on another because he or she believe his or her ideals superior
Cultural imposition
A special telephone line used for specific point to point communicatons…“hot line”
Dedicated line
The written portion of the emts patient inyeraction. This becomes part of the patients permanent medical record
Documentation
Ability to transmit and receive simultaneously
Duplex
When a person considers his or her own cultural values as more important when interacting with people of a different culture
Ethnocentrism
A trusting relationship that you build with your patient
Rapport
A special base station radio taht recieves messages and signals on one frequency and then automatically retransmits them on a second frequency
Repeater
A radio receiver that searches or scans across several frequencies until the message is completed; the process is then repeated
Scanner
Single frequency radio; transmissions can occur in either direction but not simultaneously in both; when one party transmits, the other can only receive, and the party that is transmitting is unable to receive
Simplex
Written documents, signed by the ems systems medical director, that outline specific directions, permissions, and sometimes prohibitions regarding patient care…also called protocols
Standing orders
Anything that dampens or obscures the true meaning of a message
Noise
Questions for which the patient must provide detail to give an answer
Open ended questions
The use of a radio signal and a voice or digital message that is transmitted to pagers “beepers” or desktop monitor radios
Paging
Legal document used to record all patient care activites. This report has direct patient care functions but also administrative and quality control functions. Also known as “prehospital care reports”
Patient care report
The study of space between people and its effects on communication
Proxemics
Agency that has jurisdiction over interstate ans international telephone and telegraph services amd satellite communications, all of which may involve ems activity
Federal Communications Commission FCC
VHF and UHF channels that the FCC has designated exclusively for ems use
MED channels
Small computer terminals inside ambulances that directly receive data from the dispatch center
Mobile Data Terminals MDT
A process in which electronic signals are converted into coded, audible signals; these signals can then be transmitted by radio or telephone to a receiver with a decoder at the hospital
Telemetry
