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AAOS Emergency Care and Transportation of

the Sick and Injured Eleventh Edition – Chapter

1 EMS Systems Questions with Detailed

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Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)

Ans: An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life

support such as intravenous therapy and the administration of certain

emergency medications

Advance Life Support (ALS)

Ans: Advanced lifesaving procedures some of which are now being

provided by the EMT

American with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Ans: Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with

disabilities against discrimination.

Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

Ans: a device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias

(ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the

appropriate electrical shock to the patient.

Certification

Ans: A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated

and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe

and ethical care.

Community Paramedicine

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Ans: A health care model in which experienced paramedics receive

advanced training to equip them to provide additional services in the

prehospital environment such as health evaluations monitoring of chronic

illnesses or conditions and patient advocacy.

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

Ans: A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of

an EMS system.

Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD)

Ans: 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.

Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)

Ans: The first trained professional such as a police officer fire fighters

lifeguard or other rescuer to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide

initial medical assistance.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Ans: A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of

several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to

the sick and injured

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

Ans: An individual who has training in basic life support including

automated external defibrillation use of a definitive airway adjunct and

assisting patients with certain medications.

Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPPA)

Ans: Federal legislation passed in 1996. It’s main effect in EMS s in

limiting availability of patients health care informationt and penalizing

violations of patient privacy.

Intravenous Therapy (IV)