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| Has training in basic emergency care skills, including AED, use of airway adjuncts, and assisting patients with certain medications. |
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| Has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as IV therapy, and cardiac monitoring. |
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| Has extensive training in advanced life support, including IV therapy, pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, interpretation of cardiac rhythms, ACLS training, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills. |
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| National Highway Traffic Safey Administration |
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| Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) |
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| Assists Dispatchers by providing scripts and training. |
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| PSA - The area in which each EMS service operates in. PSA is responsible for the provision of pre-hospital care and the transportation of the sick and injured to the hospital. |
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A physician who authorizes the EMTs in the service to provide medical care in the field.
Writes medical protocols. |
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| Describe in a comprehensive guide delineating the EMT's scope of practice. |
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| Part of protocols and designate what the EMT is required to do for a specific complaint or condition. |
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| Consists of direction given over the phone or radio directly from the medical director or designated physician. |
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| Consists of standing orders, training, and supervision authorized b the medical director. |
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Continuous Quality Improvement
A circular system of all continuous internal and external reviews and audits all aspects of an EMS call |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
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| The first trained individual such as a police officer, fire fighter, or other rescuer to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide medical assistance. |
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| Denial - Refusal to accept diagnosis or care |
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| Anger - Someone must be blamed. Usually an ugly phase. |
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| Bargaining - Usually promises are made in order to change diagnosis or outcome of a tragic event. |
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| Depression - Open expression of grief, internalized anger, hopelessness, and in some cases, the desire to die. With victims, it's often silent. |
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| Acceptance - Grown out of a person's conviction that all has been done and the person is ready to die. |
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| Advanced Cardiac Life Support |
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| Emergency Medical Dispatch |
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| Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) |
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| The process that was developed to address acute stress situations and to potentially decrease the likiehood that PTSD will develop. |
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| General Adaption Syndrome |
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| Three phases of General Adaptation Syndrome |
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1. Alarm response
2. Reaction and resistance stage
3. Recovery or exhaustion stage |
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| Defusing (as a form of CISM) |
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| The most common form of Critical Incident Stress Management, when a group informally discusses events that they've experienced together. |
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| Critical Incident Stress Debriefing |
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| Critical Incident Stress Debriefing - definition |
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| A program in which severely stressful job-related incidents are discussed. Not proven to be effective. |
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| Vector-borne / Mechanical Vector |
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| Simple carriage of germs by insects. |
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| Transmission by insect in which the germ lives and grows. |
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Vehicle means inanimate object
Vector means living object. |
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| Contact with blood, body fluids, tissues, or airborne droplets by direct or indirect contact. |
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| Exposure or transmission of a communicable disease by physical touching. |
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| is exposure or transmission of a disease by contact with a contaminated object. |
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| Differs from universal precautions in that it is designed to approach all body fluids as being potentially infectious. |
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| Assumes only blood and certain body fluids are potentially infectious and pose as a risk for Hep B and HIV transmission. |
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| Personal Protective Equipment |
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| Place a non-rebreathing mask instead of a surgical mask and set the oxygen flow rate to 10 to 15 L/min. |
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| Requires that the hospital notify your department's designated officer within 48 hours of the time that the hospital identifies the patient's disease. |
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| THe tactical use of an impenetrable barrier to protect EMS personnel and to project them from projectiles |
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| The strength or ability of a pathogen to produce disease. |
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