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Aemt
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| AEMT | trained in ALS like IV and administration of certain emergency medications |
| ALS | Advanced Life saving, like cardiac monitoring, IV fluids, advanced airways |
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities, comprehensive legislation designed to protect those with disability from discrimination |
| AED | device that detects treatable life threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (Vfib and Vtach) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock |
| BLS | noninvasive emergency life saving care |
| certification | process in which a person is evaluated and recognized for reaching a certain predetermined standards of care to provide patient care. |
| community paramedicine | a model which experience paramedics receive advanced training to allow them to provide additional services. |
| CQI | Continuous quality improvement, a system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an emergency medical services |
| credentialing | an established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice profession or to function as an organization. |
| EMD |