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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| licensure | the process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated job, trade, or profession |
| continuous quality improvement (CQI) | a system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an emergency medical services system |
| emergency medical dispatch (EMD) | a system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate unites to respond to a particular call for assistance and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of emergency medical services crews |
| AEMT | an individual trained in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy and administration of certain emergency medications |
| scene size-up | a step within the patient assessment process that involves a quick assessment of the scence and the surroundings to provide information about scene safety and the mechanism of injury or nature of illness before you enter and begin patient care |
| emergency | a serious situation, such as injury or illness, that threatens the life or welfare of a person or group of people and requires immediate intervention |
| EMS | a multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to sick and injured people |
| packaging | the act of preparing a patient for movement as a unit by means of a backboard or similar stabalization device |
| Star of Life | the six-pointed star that identifies vehicles that meet federal specifications as licensed or certified ambulance |
| basic life support | noninvasive emergency life-saving care used to treat medical conditions, including airway obstruction, respiratory arrest, and cardiac arrest |
| cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) | the combination of chest compressions and rescue breathing used to establish adequate ventilation and circulation in a patient who is not breathing and has no pulse |
| certification | a process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical patient care |
| Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) | compreehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination |
| mortality | the quality of being mortal; number of deaths from a disease in a given population |
| morbidity | number of nonfatally injured or disabled people; usually expressed as a rate, meaning the number of nonfatal injuries in a certain population in a given time period divided by the size of the population |
| scope of practice | most commonly defined by state law; outlines the emergency medical care that the advanced emergency medical technician is able to provide the patient |
| automated external defibrillator (AED) | a device that detects treatable life threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient |
| public saftey access point | a call center staffed by training personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, firefighting, and ambulance services |
| enhanced 911 | an emergency communications system that collects information about 911 calls from the telephone network, such as the telephone number and location of the caller and displays this information on the dispatcher's computer terminal |
| medical director | the physician who authorizes or delegates to the provider the authority to perform health care in the field |
| medical control | physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidelines (off-line or indirect), as authorized by the medical direcyor of the service program |
| mobile integrated healthcare (MIH) | a system of delivering health care services within the community, rather than at a physicians office or a hospital, with an integrated team of health care professionals |
| community paramedicine | a health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to allow them to provide additional services in the prehospital environment, such as health evaluations, monitoring of chronic illnesses or conditions, and patient advocacy |
| quality control | the responsibility of the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by providers on each call |
| health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPPA) | the law enacted in 1996 that provides for criminal sanctions as well as for civil penalties for releasing a patients protected health information in a way not authorized by the patient |
| primary prevention | efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring |
| secondary prevention | efforts to limit the efects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent |
| In most states, a person may be denied certification as an AEMT if he or she: is not a certified firefighter is older than 45 years of age has been convicted of a felony is certified in another state | has been convicted of a felony |
| A circular system of ongoing internal and external reviews is known as: advanced life support review retrospective patient care analysis quarterly audits of the EMS system continuous quality improvement | continuous quality improvement |
| A physician authorizes you, via two-way radio, to help a patient administer prescribed nitroglycerin. What type of medical direction is this? | online medical control |
| Ensuring people know the dangers of drinking and driving, and the harmful effects of using alcohol and other drugs, are examples of what? | primary prevention |
| Which of the following is not a standard licensure requirement for AEMTs? possesion of a valid and current driver's license completion of an NREMT-developed AEMT course successful completion of a state-approved AEMT exam proof of immunization | completion of an NREMT-developed AEMT course |
| The function of the Nation Registry of EMTs is to: provide continuing education for EMS providers assess competence through a valid testing process set training standards for each EMS provider level mandate that EMS providers recertify every year | assess competence through a valid testing process |
| Which of the following conditions or injuries would most likely require transfer to a special facility? severe headache open fracture abdominal pain thermal burns | thermal burns |
| Which of the following is an example of a secondary prevention strategy? constructing a guardrail to prevent an accident advocating childhood vaccinaitions placing childproof locks on cabinets educate public regarding use of helments and seat belts | educating the public regarding the use of helments and seat belts |
| Authorization to use an automatic transport ventilator when transporting a patient requires which minimum level of EMS provider? | EMT |
| Who regulates the standards under which AEMTs provide emergency care? | the state EMS office or agency |
| acute stress reactions | reactions to stress that occur during a stressful situation |
| aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) | treatments that increase the risk for transmission of infections that are spread through the air or by droplets |
| airborne transmission | the spread of an infectious agent via droplets or dust |
| bloodborne pathogens | pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans. these pathogens include, but are not limited to, hepatitis B virus and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) |
| burnout | a state of exhaustion of physical or emotional strength which may be a consequence of chronic, unrelieved stress |
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