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EMR
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Term | Definition |
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Advance Emergency Medical Technician AEMT | |
Continuous Quality improvement CQI | |
Disaster Medical Assistance Team DMAT | |
Emergency Medical Dispatcher EMD | |
Emergency Medical Responder EMR | a member or the ems system who has been trained to render first aid care for a patient and to help EMTs at the scene |
Emergency Medical Services EMS system | the chain of human resources and services linked together to provide continuous emergency care all the way to medical facility |
Medical Direction | the medical oversight provided for an EMS system or one of its components by a licensed physician |
Medical Director | a physician who assumes the ultimate responsibility for medical oversight for of the patient care aspects of the EMS system |
Offline Medical Direction | an EMS Systems standing orders and protocols, which authorize personnel to perform particular skills in certain situations without actually speaking to the medical director |
Online Medical Direction | orders to perform a skill or administer care from the on duty physician, given to the rescuer in person by radio or by phone |
Protocols | written guidelines that direct the care EMS personnel provide |
Public health system | |
Public safety answering point PSAP | When you dial 911 where your calls go |
Scope of practice | |
Scope of practice model | a national model that defines the scope of care for all levels of EMS training |
Specialty Hospital | |
Standing Order | the medical directors specific instructions for the EMR, EMT, or paramedic to provide care for a specific medical condition or injury |
Explain the role of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and its relation to EMS | They develop all the training and education standards for EMD, EMR, EMT, and paramedics |
Differentiate the four levels of EMS provider | Emergency Medical Dispatcher, Emergency medical responder, Emergency medical technician, Paramedic |
Differentiate the roles and responsibilities of the EMR from other EMS providers | 16 |
Explain the role of public health systems and their relationship to EMS, Disease surveillance, and injury prevention | 16 |
Explain the role of disaster medical assistance teams play and how they integrate with EMS systems | 16 |