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The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field
What is the medical director?
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system
What is Continuous Quality Improvement?
Inflammation of the liver; usually caused by a viral infection, that causes fever, loss of appetite, jaundice, fatigue, and altered liver function.
What is hepatitis?
Written, accepted levels of emergency care expected by reason of training and profession; written by legal or professional organizations so that patients are not exposed to unreasonable risk or harm
Stiffening of the body muscles; a definitive sign of death
What is rigor mortis?
A process in which electronic signals are converted into coded, audible signals; these signals can then be transmitted by radio or telephone to a receiver with a decoder at the hospital
What is telemetry?
Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidelines (off-line/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service program
What is medical control?
The legal document used to record all patient care activities. This report has direct patient care functions but also administrative and quality control functions.
What is a patient care report?
Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent
What is secondary prevention?
Ability to understand and process information and make a choice regarding appropriate medical care
Unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient’s consent and without making provisions for transferring care to another medical professional with the skills and training necessary to meet the needs of the patient
When a person who has a duty abuses it, and causes harm to another individual, the EMT, the agency, and/or the medical director may be sued for negligence.
What is proximate causation?
A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers
What is the National EMS Scope of Practice Model?
When a person considers his or her own cultural values as more important when interacting with people of a different culture
Ethnocentrism
A call center, staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, fire, and ambulance services
What is a public safety access point?
Statutory provisions enacted by many states to protect citizens from liability for errors and omissions in giving good faith emergency medical care, unless that is wanton, gross, or willful negligence
What are Good Samaritan laws?
Decomposition of body tissues; a definitive sign of death
What is putrefaction?
Blood settling to the lowest point of the body, causing discoloration of the of the skin; a definitive sign of death
What is dependent lividity?
A method of delivering health care which involves providing health care within the community rather than at a physician’s office or hospital
What is Mobile Integrated Healthcare?
When the EMT or an EMS system is held liable even when the plaintiff is unable to clearly demonstrate how an injury occurred
What is Res Ipsa Loquitor?
A health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to equip them to provide additional services in the prehospital environment, such as health evaluations, monitoring of chronic illnesses or conditions, and patient advocacy.
What is community paramedicine?
Negligence is failure to provide the same care that a person with similar training would provide. What are the four elements that must be present to be negligence?
The body’s response to stress that begins with an alarm response, followed by a stage of reaction and resistance, and then recovery or, if the stress is prolonged, exhaustion
What is general adaptation syndrome?
A process that confronts the response to critical incidents and defuses them, directing the emergency services personnel toward physical and emotional equilibrium
What is critical incident stress management?
The legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent.
What is in loco parentis?