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| Advanced emergency medical technician | show 🗑
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| show | Credentialing at the local level
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| Direct medical control | show 🗑
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| show | A person trained in emergency medical care who may be called on to provide such care as a routine part of the job, paid or volunteer; often the first trained professional to respond to emergencies; formerly called “first responder.”
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| Emergency medical services system | show 🗑
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| show | Someone who has successfully completed a state-approved EMT training program; EMTs take over care from EMRs and work on stabilizing and preparing the patient for transport; formerly referred to as EMT-Basic.
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| show | A type of medical direction, also called “off-line,” “retrospective” or “prospective” medical control; this type of medical direction includes education, protocol review and quality improvement for emergency care providers.
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| show | Required acknowledgment that the bearer has permission to practice in the licensing state; offers the highest level of public protection; may be revoked at the state level should the bearer no longer meet the required standards.
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| show | Local requirements EMRs must meet in order to maintain employment or obtain certain protocols so that they may practice.
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| show | The monitoring of care provided by out-of-hospital providers to injured or ill persons, usually by a medical director.
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| Medical director | show 🗑
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| Paramedic | show 🗑
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| show | Emergency medical care provided before a patient arrives at a hospital or medical facility.
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| show | Standardized procedures to be followed when providing care to injured or ill persons.
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| Scope of practice | show 🗑
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| show | Protocols issued by the medical director allowing specific skills to be performed or specific medications to be administered in certain situations.
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| Acute | show 🗑
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| Adaptive immunity | show 🗑
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| show | A disease of the immune system caused by infection with HIV.
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| show | A type of protein found in blood or other bodily fluids; used by the immune system to identify and neutralize pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses.
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| show | One-celled organisms that can cause infection; a common type of pathogen.
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| show | A biological agent that presents a hazard to the health or well-being of those exposed.
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| show | Used to describe a substance carried in the blood (e.g., bloodborne pathogens are pathogens carried through the blood).
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| Bloodborne pathogens | show 🗑
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| Body substance isolation precautions | show 🗑
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| Chronic | show 🗑
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| Critical incident stress | show 🗑
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| Debriefing | show 🗑
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| Defusing | show 🗑
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| show | Mode of transmission of pathogens that occurs through directly touching infected blood or body fluid, or other agents such as chemicals, drugs or toxins.
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| Disease-causing agent | show 🗑
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| Droplet transmission | show 🗑
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| show | Control measures that eliminate, isolate or remove a hazard from the workplace; things used in the workplace to help reduce the risk of an exposure.
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| Exposure | show 🗑
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| Exposure control plan | show 🗑
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| show | An inflammation of the liver most commonly caused by viral infection; there are several types including hepatitis A, B, C, D and E.
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| HIV | show 🗑
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| Homeostasis | show 🗑
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| show | The body’s complex group of body systems that is responsible for fighting disease.
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| show | Mode of transmission of a disease caused by touching a contaminated object.
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| show | A condition caused by disease-producing microorganisms, called pathogens or germs, in the body.
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| Infectious disease | show 🗑
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| show | The type of protection from disease with which humans are born.
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| show | Purplish color in the lowest-lying parts of a recently dead body, caused by pooling of blood.
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| Meningitis | show 🗑
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| Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | show 🗑
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| Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis | show 🗑
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| Needlestick | show 🗑
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| show | Federal agency whose role is to promote the safety and health of American workers by setting and enforcing standards
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| show | Infections that strike people whose immune systems are weakened.
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| Pandemic influenza | show 🗑
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| show | The type of immunity gained from external sources such as from a mother’s breast milk to an infant.
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| show | A term used to describe a germ; a disease-causing agent (e.g., bacterium or virus).
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| show | All specialized clothing, equipment and supplies that keep the user from directly contacting infected materials; includes gloves, gowns, masks, shields and protective eyewear.
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| Severe acute respiratory syndrome | show 🗑
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| show | Safety measures, including BSI and universal precautions, taken to prevent occupational-risk exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials; assumes that all body fluids, secretions and excretions (except sweat) are potentially infective.
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| Stress | show 🗑
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| show | An unexpected, natural death; usually used to describe a death from a sudden cardiac event.
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| show | A bacterial infection that usually attacks the lungs.
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| show | A set of precautions designed to prevent transmission of HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and other bloodborne pathogens when providing care; considers blood and certain body fluids of all patients potentially infectious.
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| show | Transmission of a pathogen that occurs when an infectious source, such as an animal or insect bite or sting, penetrates the body’s skin.
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| Virus | show 🗑
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| show | Control measures that reduce the likelihood of exposure by changing the way a task is carried out.
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| show | Ending the care of an injured or ill person without obtaining that patient’s consent or without ensuring that someone with equal or greater training will continue care.
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| show | A written instruction, signed by the patient and a physician, which documents a patient’s wishes if the patient is unable to communicate his or her wishes.
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| Applied ethics | show 🗑
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| Assault | show 🗑
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| Battery | show 🗑
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| Competence | show 🗑
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| show | Protection of a patient’s privacy by not revealing any personal patient information except to law enforcement personnel or emergency medical services (EMS) personnel caring for the patient.
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| Consent | show 🗑
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| Do no harm | show 🗑
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| Do not resuscitate order | show 🗑
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| Durable power of attorney for health care | show 🗑
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| show | A legal responsibility of some individuals to provide a reasonable standard of emergency care.
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| Ethics | show 🗑
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| Expressed consent | show 🗑
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| Good Samaritan laws | show 🗑
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| Health care proxy | show 🗑
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| Implied consent | show 🗑
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| In good faith | show 🗑
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| Legal obligation | show 🗑
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| Living will | show 🗑
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| Malpractice | show 🗑
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| show | A situation in which a patient has a medical or traumatic condition that is scientifically accepted to be futile should resuscitation be attempted and, therefore, the patient should be considered dead on arrival.
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| show | Obligation to act in a particular way in accordance with what is considered morally right.
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| show | Principles relating to issues of right and wrong and how individual people should behave.
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| show | The failure to provide the level of care a person of similar training would provide, thereby causing injury or damage to another.
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| show | The closest relatives, as defined by state law, of a deceased person; usually the spouse and nearest blood relatives.
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| show | A fundamental ethical principle that refers to the provision of competent care, with compassion and respect for human dignity.
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| show | The declining of care by a competent patient; a patient has the right to refuse the care of anyone who responds to an emergency scene.
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| Standard of care | show 🗑
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| show | A third party with the legal right to make decisions for another person regarding medical and health issues through a durable power of attorney for health care.
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| show | The study of structures, including gross anatomy (structures that can be seen with the naked eye) and microscopic anatomy (structures seen under the microscope).
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| show | A group of organs and other structures that works together to carry out specific functions.
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| Cells | show 🗑
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| show | A group of organs and other structures that carries oxygen-rich blood and other nutrients throughout the body and removes waste.
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| show | A group of organs and other structures that digests food and eliminates wastes.
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| show | A group of organs and other structures that regulates and coordinates the activities of other systems by producing chemicals (hormones) that influence tissue activity.
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| Genitourinary system | show 🗑
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| Integumentary system | show 🗑
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| show | A group of tissues and other structures that supports the body, protects internal organs, allows movement, stores minerals, manufactures blood cells and creates heat.
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| show | A group of organs and other structures that regulates all body functions.
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| show | A structure of similar tissues acting together to perform specific body functions.
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| show | How living organisms function (e.g., movement and reproduction).
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| show | A group of organs and other structures that brings air into the body and removes wastes through a process called breathing, or respiration.
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| show | A collection of similar cells acting together to perform specific body functions.
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| show | Those organs whose functions are essential to life, including the brain, heart and lungs.
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| Ankle drag | show 🗑
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| show | A piece of equipment used to immobilize a patient’s head, neck and spine during transport.
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| show | A method of moving a patient, using a blanket, in an emergency situation where equipment is limited and the patient is suspected of having a head, neck or spinal injury.
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| Body mechanics | show 🗑
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| Clothes drag | show 🗑
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| show | A method of moving a patient from a bed to a stretcher or vice-versa; performed by two responders.
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| show | A non-emergency method of lifting a patient directly from the ground; performed by several responders.
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| Draw sheet | show 🗑
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| show | A two-responder, non-emergency lift in which one responder supports the patient’s arms and the other the patient’s legs.
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| Firefighter’s carry | show 🗑
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| show | A method of moving a patient in which the patient is bound to the responder’s neck and held underneath the responder; the responder moves the patient by crawling.
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| Log roll | show 🗑
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| show | A type of carry in which the patient is supported upright, across the responder’s back.
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| show | The position a patient naturally assumes when feeling ill or in pain; the position depends on the mechanism of the injury or nature of the illness.
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| show | A hand position for lifting that requires the full surface of the palms and fingers to come in contact with the object being lifted.
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| Power lift | show 🗑
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| Reasonable force | show 🗑
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| show | A posture used to help maintain a clear airway in an unresponsive, breathing patient.
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| show | A method of limiting a patient’s movements, usually by physical means such as a padded cloth strap; may also be achieved by chemical means, such as medication.
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| Shoulder drag | show 🗑
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| show | A lift technique that is useful when one of the lifter’s legs or ankles is weaker than the other.
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| show | Equipment used for patient transport in a sitting position.
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| Stretcher | show 🗑
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| Supine | show 🗑
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| show | A non-emergency method of carrying a patient by creating a “seat” with the arms of two responders.
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| Walking assist | show 🗑
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