EMS System
This federal agency is responsible for establishing EMS standards.
What is the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?
The EMT's first and most important priority.
What is personal safety?
In Florida, this agency regulates EMS agencies and personnel.
What is the Florida Department of Health?
The five emotional stages of death or grieving are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and this.
What is acceptance?
EMTs who are providing education, promotion of the use of safety equipment (seat belt use, helmet use, fall prevention, fire prevention), and injury surveillance are participating in this public health role.
What is injury prevention?
This is the lowest level of EMS practitioner recognized under the National EMS Scope of Practice Model.
What is Emergency Medical Provider (EMR)?
This survey helps to identify and care for immediately life-threatening problems, such as airway compromise, respiratory insufficiency, cardiac arrest, or severe bleeding.
What is the primary assessment?
A set of predetermined, written guidelines that allow EMTs to use their judgment to administer emergency medical care without having to contact a physician.
What is off-line medical direction?
A typical delayed stress reaction that occurs from exposure to a high-stress situation.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
This consists of services provided by the EMS agency and its EMS personnel, that are administratively and clinically integrated with other health care entities and services.
What is community paramedicine?
A medical director providing medical oversight that includes overseeing patient care and delegating appropriate medical practices to EMTs and other EMS personnel.
What is medical direction?
The use of a communications device to receive patient care instructions from a physician.
What is on-line medical control?
These comprise a full set of guidelines that define the entire scope of medical care.
What are protocols?
Cumulative stress reaction, a result of constant exposure to stressful situations that build over time leading to a state of exhaustion and irritability is also known by this name.
What is burnout or compassion fatigue?
The collective term for eye protection, protective gloves, gowns, and masks.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
This facility receives the calls, collects, verifies, and records the information about the emergency, decides which service must respond, and then facilitates alerting the necessary service.
What is a public service answering point (PSAP)?
Actions taken by the EMT to protect the patient’s rights, protect the patient’s privacy, shield the patient as much as possible from curious bystanders, and answer questions truthfully.
What is patient advocacy?
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an emergency medical system.
What is quality improvement or continuous quality improvement?
A process to deal with stress encountered by the EMT, ideally held within 24 to 72 hours of a critical incident.
What is a critical incident stress debriefing (CISD)?
This is the most common bloodborne disease in the United States.
What is Hepatitis C?
This government-based type of EMS service provides 911 service but is not part of a fire or police department.
What is Municipal EMS?
Using your back to lift and making sure you have sufficient help to lift and move patients and equipment to avoid injuring yourself.
What is proper body mechanics?
This focuses on research to provide clear evidence that certain procedures, medications, and equipment improve the patient’s outcome.
What is evidence-based medicine?
The single most effective way of preventing the spread of infection.
What is hand washing?
This publication can be used to identify hazardous materials in transport.
What is the emergency response guide (ERG)?