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This 1990 federal law provides funding for care and treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS.
What is the Ryan White Act?
This is the standard, original version of emergency dialing in the U.S. that connects callers to a dispatcher without automatically providing location information.
What is Regular 911?
What is MOI
Mechanism of Injury
When dispatched to a potential hazmat where should position or park our ambulance
UP Hill
UP Wind
What day and time is your Pearson assignments due for the given week
Sunday at 11:59pm
This act sets national standards for the protection of individuals' medical records and other personal health information.
What is HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
This upgraded version of 9-1-1 automatically provides the caller's phone number and location to the dispatcher, originally for landlines and later expanded to wireless and VoIP.
What is Enhanced 911 (or E911)?
What does SOAP stand for
Subjective
Objective
Assessment
Plan
We do this to remove victims who become entrapped within a vehicle, building, or machinery.
Extrication
What year was the americans with disability act established
1990
This is the commonly misused or fictional name sometimes confused with actual medical malpractice law, but there is no U.S. federal statute officially called this.
What is the Negligence and Standards of Care Act?
This 9-1-1 center term refers to the facility or location where emergency calls are received and routed to the appropriate emergency services.
What is a Public Safety Answering Point (or PSAP)?
This should be done to correct a mistake on a written PCR report
Cross out mistake with a single line and initial
Define Simple Access
Tools not required
what is implied consent
when you assume a patient who is unresponsive or is unable to make a rational decision (Altered) would consent to medical care
This agency, created by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, enforces workplace safety standards (note: there was no major "Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act of 1999").
What is OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
This EMS deployment strategy involves strategically positioning ambulances and crews based on real-time call demand and patterns rather than fixed stations.
What is System Status Management?
What is NOI
Nature of Illness
what is involuntary consent
mentally incompetent or in police custody
Define Complex Patient access
Tools and/or special tools required
Name 4 things that can result in negligence for a EMS provider
Breach of duty
Damages
Duty to act
Proximate Cause
This is where we get information about how to mitigate HAZMAT scenes
Emergency Response Guide
Name 3 required components of PCR documentation
Chief Complaint
Treatment Provided
Times of calls and treatment
The five emotional stages
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
Define standing orders
protocols that do not require real time physician input.