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18 Cards in this Set
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Designated Agent |
An EMT or other person authorized by a medical director to give medications and provide emergency care. |
Authorized by medical director |
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Off-line medical director |
Standing orders from the MD that allows EMTs to give certain medications or perform certain procedures without speaking to a MD or physician |
No speaking to MD |
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On-line medical direction |
Orders from the on-duty physician given directly to an EMT in the field by radio or telephone. |
Orders from physician to the EMT |
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911 system |
A system for telephone access to report emergencies |
What is 911? |
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Medical direction |
Oversight of the patient-care aspects of an EMS system by the medical director |
Orders from MD |
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Medical director |
A physician who assumes ultimate responsibility for the patient-care aspects of the EMS system |
A person. |
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Quality improvement |
A process of self review with the purpose if identify and correct aspects if the system that require improvement |
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Protocols |
Steps, such as assessments and interventions, to be taken in difficult situations. |
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Standing order |
Policy issued by the MD that allows EMTs and others perform particular skills in certain situations. |
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Patient outcomes |
Medical techniques /practices supported by research of their safety and efficacy rather than merely supposition and tradition. |
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Evidence based |
The long-term survival of the patient |
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First emergency medical service |
France, 1790s |
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The - charged the US - with making EMS standards and helping the states to upgrade the quality of their pre hospital emergency care. |
National Highway Safety Act; Department of Transportation |
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What is not a major component in the NHTSA (Highway) for safety standards? |
Computerization |
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Specialty hospital is... |
Trauma center |
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When was the founding of National Registry of EMTs |
1970 |
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What is the file of life? |
Card with name, birthday, allergies, meds, contacts. |
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Levels of EMS training |
EMR EMT Advanced EMT paramedic |
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