Exam 1: 1-6 Flashcards
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What is QA/QC?
Quality Assurance Quality Control
What is CQI?
Continuous Quality Improvement
What is the minimum number of compressions needed to get air into the inter-thoracic pressure?
15-30
What was the first war EMS was used in?
Napoleonic War
What is the percentage of HALO cases?
High acuity low observation 10% of babies, infants, small children
What is EMD?
emergency medical dispatch
What is EMR?
emergency medical responder, cops and firefighters no drugs
What is EMT
emergency medical technician can give med and do basic life support
What is advanced life support ?
goes with patients
What is paramedic?
highest levels
What is medical control?
a physician who assumes the ultimiate responsibility for medical direction or oversight of the patient care aspects of the EMS system they oversee training, develop protocols (lists of steps for assessment and interventioins to be performed in different situations).
• EMT is operating as a designated agent of the position acting under their license.
What is a medical director
the medical director is the person who presides over the entire emergency system as they are under their license.
What is a standing order?
physician issues policy or protocol authirizng EMTs to perform skills in certain situations. off-line medical direction
What do you do on call?
your priorities are your one safety, your partners safety, then the patients safety, then bystander safety. Best to stay calm because it is their emergency and not yours so use common sense. Elicit information from patient and process it try putting tape on leg or index cards to write down information. It is important to detach yourself from the situation while still being compassionate, you must get permission to treat, it is important for communication and reassurance for the patient, partner, and family. Call hospital and medical control and diagnose and treat the patient while staying composed
What occurs after a call?
paperwork, remembering details, if you make a mistake on the report put a single line through it and initial and correct if you haven’t turned it in yet. if you did turn it in write an amendment. PCR- patient care report, a legal document and you can requet a follow up or find up from the doctors about the patient after you filed your report. Keep up your certificate every 2 year. Cant tell anoyne about call or patient including family. It is important ot have integrity, as a legal platform there is always drugs and seeing other people in bad ways and it is important to stay about the board. Taking car eof someone with personal difficulty is difficult as they may seem immoral to you, be an abuser but you must put aside pre-determined judgement and don’t become biased.
What is NHTSA?
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Technical Assistance Program
What does NHYSA do?
EMS in certain states must have sstandards, regulation and policy, resource management ( so that everyone get equal access to care by a certified license equipped), human resources and training (everyone should be EMT level), transportation, facilities communications, public information and education, medical direction, trauma systems, evaluation.
What is the role and responsibility of the EMT?
personal safety, safety of crew, patient and bystanders, patient assessment, patient care, lifting and moving, transport, transfer of care, and patient advocacy.
What is a designated agent?
an EMT or other person authorized by a medical director to give menedicaitona nd provide emergency car.e the transfer of such authorization to a designated agent is an extension of the medical director’s license to prcctice medicine
What is the 911 system
a system for telephone acces to report emergencies a dispatcher takes the information and alerts EMS or the fire or police department as needed with enhanced 911 having the addiitoinal capability of automatically identifying the caller’s phone number and location.
What is quality improvement?
a process of continuous self-review with the purpose of identifying and correcting aspects of the system that require improvement
What are pathogens?
organisms that cause infection and diseases, such as viruses and bacteria;.
What are the four common modes of transmission of pathogens?
blood borne, droplet, airborne, and contact
What is blood borne transmission?
- transferred through blood or other body fluids to mucous membranes or small exposed breaks