EMS Systems
This physician provides medical oversight for EMS personnel.
Who is the Medical Director?
This is the most effective method of preventing disease transmission.
What is hand hygiene?
Consent assumed when a patient is unconscious.
What is implied consent?
The basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
This age group normally has the fastest heart rate.
What is infancy?
These are the two types of medical direction used in EMS.
What are online and offline medical direction?
This type of equipment includes gloves, eye protection, and masks.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
This federal law protects patient health information.
What is HIPAA?
The body's effort to maintain internal stability.
What is homeostasis?
This developmental stage is associated with identity formation and increasing independence.
What is adolescence?
This process evaluates and improves patient care within an EMS organization.
What is Quality Improvement (QI)?
This condition is characterized by emotional exhaustion and decreased job satisfaction.
What is burnout?
Failure to act as a reasonably prudent EMT would act.
What is negligence?
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This normal aging change may result in slower reaction times.
What is decreased neurologic response/reaction time?
This is the EMT's primary role within the healthcare system.
What is providing prehospital emergency care?
This process occurs after a critical incident to review actions and emotional responses.
What is a debriefing?
Ending patient care without properly transferring responsibility.
What is abandonment?
These tiny structures are responsible for gas exchange in the lungs.
What are alveoli?
This patient population is most likely to have multiple chronic disease processes.
What is the geriatric population?
This term describes the coordinated network of personnel, agencies, and resources that provide emergency care.
What is the EMS System?
This teamwork concept focuses on communication and reducing errors during patient care.
What is crew resource management?
A patient's ability to understand information and make healthcare decisions.
What is decision making capacity?
This body system controls coordination, sensation, and communication throughout the body.
What is the nervous system?
This principle states that growth and development occur in predictable stages throughout life.
What is lifespan development?