Chapter 1 (vocab)
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) | Police officer, Firefighter, Lifeguard, Or other rescuer at scene of emergency to provide initial medical assistant.
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| Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) | Dispatches appropriate units to respond and in providing callers of vital instructions until EMS arrive.
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| Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) | System of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system.
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| Certification | 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.
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) | Federal legislation passed in 1996. Limiting availability outpatients healthcare information and penalizing violations of patients privacy.
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| Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) | Individual trained in basic life support automated external defibrillation, use of a definitive airway adjunct, assisting patient with certain medications.
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| Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) | Designed to protect individuals with disabilities against discrimination.
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| Automated External Defibrillator (AED) | Device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and venrricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electric shock to the patient.
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| Advanced Life Support (ALS) | Advanced life saving procedures some provided by the EMT.
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| Advanced EMT (AEMT) | Individual who is trained in advanced life support such as intravenous therapy, admission of certain emergency medications.
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| Emergency Medical Services (EMS) | Multidisciplinary system combined of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured.
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