Emergency Medical Services
These are the four Nationally Registered Technician levels of certification / licensure.
Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)
Paramedic
Both Positive and Negative, this affects all levels of providers.
Stress
These piece of equipment aids providers in moving patients up and down stairs.
Stair chair.
The term for middle of the body or structure.
Midline
Permission from the patient, and is required for any treatment or action taken by the EMT.
Consent.
This division or section of the US government was charged with development of EMS standards, upgrade the quality of prehospital care setting the basis of most EMS models in the states and is currently the "overseers" of EMS.
The Department of Transportation (DOT)
Stress may involve any one or a combination of the following areas of biological function.
Physical, cognitive, emotional, and or behavioral.
In this position, you will squat rather than bend at the waist, and you will keep the weight close to your body, even straddling it if possible.
Power Lift (Squat Lift)
The back or rear of the body or structure.
Posterior
The consent given by adults who are of legal age and are mentally competent to make a rational decision with regard to their medical well-being.
Expressed Consent.
These are the two levels of service EMS generally provide in the 911 setting.
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Advance Life Support (ALS)
Common signs of this include: Intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, or nightmares, avoidance of certain situations or locations, hyperarousal, and negative mood.
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
This carry may be used as an emergency move or a non-urgent move for patients with no suspected spine injury.
Extremity Carry
The terms for when a patient is laying on their
1. anterior
2. posterior.
Prone and Supine.
In the case of an unconscious patient (or one who may be physically or mentally incapacitated or underage but in need of emergency care), consent may be assumed.
Implied Consent.
In which decade did Modern day EMS begin?
The 1960s
This is the first and most important step when approaching a scene / incident.
Scene survey / scene safety.
When it comes time to do the lifting, there are rules that must be followed to prevent injury.
Position your feet properly; Use your legs;Never turn or twist;Do not compensate when lifting with one hand; Keep the weight as close as possible to your body.
The plane of the body splitting the body into left and right.
Sagittal Plane
These conditions must be fulfilled in order for patients to refuse care or transport.
Legally able to consent (of legal age), awake and oriented (AAOx4) and be fully informed.
In which year did the U.S. Congress passed the National Emergency Medical Services Systems Act.
1973.
The three words which sum up the actions required to respond to danger.
Plan, Observe, and React
Using two providers this method can be modified to allow more providers to move the patient from bed to stretcher or visa versa using a piece of bedding.
Draw sheet method
The plane of the body which splits the body into upper and lower.
Transverse Plane.
These three points are needed to prove Negligence of an EMS provider.
Duty to Act -The provider had a duty to the patient.
Breach of Duty -The provider did not provide the standard of care.
Proximate causation -Injury resulting from an action / administering of treatment or failure to act / administer treatment.