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| Americans with disabilities act (ADA) | show 🗑
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| show | a health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to equip them to provide additional services in the prehospital environment,
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| show | a system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system aiming at improving outcomes
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| show | a system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews
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| show | a multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professional and agencies to provide prehospital care to the sick and injured
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| define EMT | show 🗑
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| show | an approach to medicine where decisions are based on well-conducted research, classifying recommendations based on the strength of the scientific based evidence
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| define HIPAA | show 🗑
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| show | Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidelines (offline/indirect) as authorized by the medical director of the service program
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| show | the physician who authorizes who delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medial care in the field
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| define Mobile integrated health care (MIH) | show 🗑
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| define National EMS Scope of Practice Model | show 🗑
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| define Primary Prevention | show 🗑
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| define Primary service area | show 🗑
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| show | a call center, staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, fire, and ambulance services
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| define Quality Control | show 🗑
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| define Secondary Prevention | show 🗑
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| What are the 4 levels of EMT | show 🗑
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| show | prohibit person from becoming an EMT
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| Who authorizes the EMTs in the service to provide medical care in the field? | show 🗑
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| show | Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society established EMS
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| show | Emergency Medical Services Act
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| show | Direct contact (eg, bloodborne pathogens)
Indirect contact (eg, needlesticks)
Airborne transmission (eg, sneezing)
Foodborne transmission (eg, contaminated food)
Vector-borne transmission (eg, fleas)
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| What immunizations are required for EMTs? | show 🗑
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| Critical incident stress is caused by acute severe stressors. | show 🗑
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| show | Used to help providers relieve stress
Can occur formally or at an ongoing scene
Facilitated by trained professionals
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| Types of consent: Expressed Consent | show 🗑
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| show | Applies to patients who are: Unconscious.
Otherwise incapable of making an informed decision. Should never be used unless there is a threat to life or limb. Known as the emergency doctrine.
Try to get consent from a spouse or relative.
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| Types of consent: Involuntary Consent | show 🗑
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| show | Alarm, reaction, recovery (or exhaustion)
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| show | stay with the patient being transported.
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| show | notify the dispatcher of crime, take care cutting clothes, maintain care to the pt., don't disturb the crime scene
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| show | time the incident was reported, time EMS was notified, time EMS arrived on scene, time EMS crew made contact with pt., time EMS left the scene, times EMS arrived at receiving facility, time pt care was transferred, time unit was back in service
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| show | Any radio hardware containing a transmitter and receiver that is located in a fixed place
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| Types of radios: Mobile radio | show 🗑
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| show | VHF 30-300 MHz, UHF 300-3000 MHz, many now are 800 MHz
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| Types of radios: Portable radio | show 🗑
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| Types of radios: Repeater-based systems | show 🗑
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| What is the job of the dispatcher? | show 🗑
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| show | follow protocols
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