EMS Systems
Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone.
Medical Control
Exposure or transmission of a communicable disease from one person to another by physical contact
direct contact
A person who is under the legal age in a given state but, because of other circumstances, is legally considered an adult.
Emancipated minor
A special base station radio that receives messages and signals on one frequency and then automatically retransmits them on a second frequency.
Repeater
A body part or condition that appers on both sides of the body
bilateral
Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent.
Secondary prevention
A disease that can be spread from one person or species to another.
Communicable disease
The philosophy of right and wrong, of moral duties, and of ideal professional behavior.
Ethics
When a person considers his or her own cultural values as more important when interacting with people of a different culture.
ethnocentrism
An inclined position in which the head of the bed is raised.
Fowler position
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system aiming at improving outcomes.
Continuous quality improvement
Inflammation of the liver usually caused by a viral infection, that caused=s fever, loss of appetite, jaundice, fatigue, and altered liver function.
hepatitis
A type of consent in which a patient gives verbal or nonverbal authorization for provision of care and transport.
Expressed consent
The federal agency that has jurisdiction over interstate and international telephone and telegraph services and satellite communications all of which may involve EMS activity.
FCC
The forward-facing part of the hand in the anatomic position.
Palmar
An approach to medicine where decisions are based on well conducted research, classifying recommendations based on the strength of the scientific evidence.
Evidence-based medicine
A microorganism that is capable of causing disease in susceptible host.
Pathogen
A medicolegal term relating to certain personnel who either by statue or by function have a responsibility to provide care.
Duty to act
A process in which electronic signals are converted into coded, audible signals; these signals can then be transmitted by radio or telephone to a receiver with a decoder at the hospital.
Telemetry
Closer to the trunk
Proximal
Comprehensives legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination.
Americans with Disabilities act
The presence of infectious organisms on or in objects such as dressings, water, food, needles wounds, or a patient's body.
Contamination
Refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent.
in loco parentis
The reason the patient called.
Chief complaint
motion of the limb toward the midline. motion of the limb away from the midline
adduction, abduction