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A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and in providing callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.
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Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD)
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A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS System
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Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
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The responsibility of the medical director to ensure the appropriate care standards are me by EMTB on each call
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Quality Control
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The designated area in which EMS service is responsible for the provision of prehospital care emergency care and transport
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Primary Service Area (PSA)
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Potential life threatening disease that usually start with Flu like symptoms
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SARS (Severe Acute respiratory Syndrome)
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A comprehensive plan that helps employees to reduce their risk of exposure to or acquisition of communicable diseases
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exposure control plan
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A process that confront the response to critical incidents and defuses them, directing the emergency personnel toward physical and emotional balance
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Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
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The organism or individual that is attacked by the infecting agent
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Host
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The strength or ability of a pathogen to produce disease
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Virulence
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A disease caused bu infection
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Infections disease
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Any disease that can be spread from person to person, animal to person
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Communicable Disease
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The body's three stage response to stress: First stress causes the body to trigger and alarm response, and then recovery, or if the stress is prolonged, exhaustion.
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General Adaption Syndrome
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unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm
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Assult
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basing current action on lessons, rules, or guidelines derived from previous similar experiences
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Precedence
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A written document that specifies medical treatment should a patient become unable to make decisions - living will
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advance directives
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A term relating to medical jurisprudence (law) or forensic medicine
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medicolegal
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Circulation of blood within an organ or tissue
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perfusion
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blood presser that is below normal range
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hypotension
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narrowing of the blood vessels
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vasoconstriction
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Subjective findings that the patient feels but only identified by the patient
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symptoms
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the delicate membrane lining of the eye lids
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conjunctiva
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breathing that occurs with no aissitance
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spontaneous respirations
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Characterized by profuse sweating
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diaphoretic
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an unusually upright position in which the patients head chin are thrust slightly forward
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sniffing position
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A technique used to move a patient from siting position inside vehicle to supine position in less than 1 minute
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Rapid extrication technique
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A lifting technique used for patients found lying on the ground and have no suspected spinal injury
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Direct ground lift
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A move which the patient is dragged or pulled from the scene before initial assessment and care provided
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Emergency move
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lifiting technique used for patients in supine or sitting position and with no suspected extremity or spinal injuries
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extremity lift
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The part of the nervous system that regulates functions such as digestion and sweating, not controlled voluntarily
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Autonomic Nervous System
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The muscles on the side of the neck that allow movement of the head
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sternocleidomastoid muscles
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protein catalyst designed to speed up the rate of specific biochemical reactions
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enzymens
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Tiny disc shaped elements smaller than cells and stops bleeding
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platelets
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