EMS Systems
This responder has basic emergency care and operations training and is focused on managing life threats on scene.
What is an EMR?
This type of stress produces a positive response like increasing focus, short term energy and hightened performance.
What is eustress?
Patients who are physically or legally unable to make treatment decisions may be treated in the event that a serious injury or life threatening illness or injury has occurred under what type of consent?
What is implied consent?
This is the legal document used to record all aspects of the care your patient received from dispatch to transfer of care at the hospital.
What is a Patient Care Report (PCR)?
This government agency regulates all radio operations and has jurisdiction of all telephone and telegraph services.
What is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)?
In the 1970s, this government agency became responsible for developing educational standards for EMS known as the National Standard Cirriculum
What is the Department of Transportation?
This type of stress reaction occurs suddenly during a stressful situation.
What is an acute stress reaction?
This breach is the disclosure of the patient history, assessment and treatment without proper authorization. HIPPA is the lawful enforcement of this breach.
What is breach of confidentiality?
In a written report, mistakes should be corrected in this manner.
What is drawing a single line through the error with your initials and documenting the correct information.
This is a special base station radio that receives low power messages and signals on one frequency and then automatically retransmits them with more power
What is a repeater?
This is the legal authority to practice medicine in your state and is commonly confused with certification.
What is licensure?
This disorder is characterized by reexperiencing an event with an overresponse to stimuli that recall the event.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
This written document specifies medical treamtent for a competent patient should they be unable to make decisions. DNRs, Medical POA and Living Wills are examples.
What are advanced directives?
In the state of West Virginia, your PCR must be completed and submitted within this timeframe
What is 72 hours?
This is a radio receiver that searches across several frequencies and stops when there is a transmission. It's a favorite of Sirens and Shennanigans.
What is a scanner?
These responders are trained and equiped to provide services like health evaluations, monitoring of patients with chronic illnesses, obtaining labs or administering vaccinations. WV does not utilize them yet.
What are community paramedics?
This term describes a combination of exhaustion, cynicism and redused performance resulting from long-term job stressors
What is burnout?
The first is defamation by written word,
the second is spoken.
What is Libel and slander?
When giving the verbal transfer of care report, this written summary of your call should also be given to staff at the receiving hospital.
What is the dropsheet?
Radio system that conducts simultaneous talk/listen functions on UHF frequencies
What is a duplex system?
Responders who are trained in specific aspects of ALS such as IV therapy and the adminstration of certain medications.
What are Advanced EMTs?
This process was developed to address acute stress situations and potentially decrease the likelihood that PTSD will develop. It should be conducted as soon as possible after the event.
What is a Critical Incident Stress Debriefing?
It is defined as unlawfully placing a person in fear of immediate bodily harm.
What is assault?
This number is given by the communication center that takes your verbal report en route, is required to be documented in your PCR, and is used to track information on a national level.
What is a National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) number?
Unlike the mobile radio in your ambulance, your personal "walkie" is considered this type of radio.
What is portable?