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AAOS Emergency Care and Transportation of
the Sick and Injured Eleventh Edition – Chapter
1 EMS Systems Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers (100% Correct Answers)
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Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) – An individual who
has training in specific aspects of advanced life support such as intravenous
therapy and the administration of certain emergency medicationszz
Advance Life Support (ALS) – Advanced lifesaving procedures some of
which are now being provided by the EMTzz
American with Disabilities Act (ADA) – Comprehensive legislation that is
designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination.zz
Automated External Defibrillator (AED) – a device that detects treatable
life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular
tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient.zz
Certification – 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.zz
Community Paramedicine – 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.zz
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) – A system of internal and
external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system.zz
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Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) – 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.zz
Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) – 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.zz
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) – A multidisciplinary system that
represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to
provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injuredzz
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) – 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.zz
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPPA) – 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.zz
Intravenous Therapy (IV) – The delivery of medication directly into a
veinzz
Licensure – The process whereby a competent authority usually the state
allows people to perform a regulated act.zz
Medical Control – 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.zz
Medical Director – The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT
the authority to provide medical care in the fieldzz
