Safety and Wellness
Vehicles, structures, and storage containers holding hazardous materials should be identified by these
Placards or Signs
Aspect of the EMT’s job that involves protecting the patient’s rights
Advocacy
A legal document, usually signed by the patient and his or her physician, which states that the patient has a terminal illness and does not wish to prolong life through resuscitative efforts
DNR order
The paper or electronic record of an EMT’s documentation of a call
PCR
Five types of specialty hospitals.
Trauma centers, Burn centers, Pediatric centers, Poison centers, Stroke centers
The single most important way an EMT can prevent the spread of infection.
Handwashing
An order from an EMS system’s on-duty physician given by radio or phone
On-line medical direction
The EMT’s obligation in certain situations to provide care to a patient
Duty to act
Information that you record when you have examined an area of the body and did not notice any signs of illness or injury that would be expected in a patient with a given complaint.
Pertinent negatives
As an advance safety precaution, an EMT should have this test for TB every year.
Purified Protein Derivative (PPD)
Dying patients experience five emotional stages
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
The system of internal and external reviews and audits for all aspects of an emergency medical system.
Quality Improvement
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training is known as
Abandonment
How a multiple-casualty incident (MCI), patient information is often passed
Triage tag
A policy set by an EMS medical director that allows EMTs to administer medications or other care to patients in certain circumstances without speaking to the physician.
Standing order
The process by which an object is subject to a chemical or physical substance that kills all microorganisms on the surface.
Sterilization
The first concern of an EMT
Personal safety
Obvious signs of death, with which resuscitative efforts do not have to be made
Decapitation, Rigor mortis, Decomposition of the body, and Dependent lividity
Patient information is not provided in a radio report but must be provided in a patient care report
Name and address
Three types of incidents that most states require health care professionals to report to authorities
Rape, Child abuse, Elder abuse, Neglect, Domestic violence, Communicable diseases, Gunshots, Stab wounds, Animal bites, Suspicious burns.
Concepts used by OSHA, based on the assumption that any patient’s blood and body fluids can transmit infectious disease.
Standard Precautions
Most EMT courses today are based on models developed by this
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
EMS personnel can treat unconscious patients because the law holds that rational patients would consent to treatment if they were conscious.
Implied consent
This agency has developed a list of minimum data elements to be collected on patient care reports
DOT
Administrative information on a PCR
Run Data