Ch 1 Stuff
Exam used to ensure all health care providers have at least the same basic level of knowledge and skill
Certification exam
A disease that can be spread from one person to another
Communicable disease
System developed to assist dispatchers in providing callers with vital instructions to help them deal with a medical emergency until EMS crews arrive
EMD
Emergency Medical Dispatch
AED
Automated External Defibrillator
Patient verbally/acknowledges gives permission for you to provide care
Expressed Consent
Process by which States ensure applicant competency in an examination setting
Licensure
Presence of infectious organisms or foreign bodies on or into objects such as dressings, water, food needles wounds or a pt's body
Contamination
Has listings of many hazardous materials and the proper procedures for scene control and emergency care of patients
Emergency Response Guidebook
PTSD
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Dependent lividity, Rigor mortis, Putrefaction
Definitive Signs of Death
Team of health care professionals who, in each area or jurisdiction, are responsible for and provide emergency care and transportation to the sick and injured
Emergency Medical Services
A situation in which a person has had contact with blood, body fluids, tissues, or airborne particles in which transmission occurs
Exposure
Who authorizes the EMT's in the service to provide medical care in the field.
Medical Director
EMR
Emergency Medical Responder
Patient is unconscious or incapable so the law assumes that they would allow you to treat them
Implied Consent
Symbol representing EMS as a critical public service
Star of Life
Equipment an individual wears to prevent exposure to a pathogen or a haz material
Personal protective equipment
PPE
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
The Grieving Process
CISM
Critical Incident Stress Management
Terminating care without the patients consent and without providing continuous care by a medical professional who is the same or higher certification
Abandonment
This document provides overarching guidelines for the minimum skills each level of EMS provider should bse able to accomplish
National EMS Scope of Practice Model
Microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans
Bloodborne pathogens
HIPPA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
NHTSA
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration
Duty to act, Breach of duty, Damages, Causation
Negligence