1: Introduction to Advanced Prehospital Care Flashcards
Refers to Basic Life saving procedures such as artificial ventilation and cardiopulmonary resuscitaion.
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Refers to advanced life saving procedures such a intravenous therapy, drug therapy, intubation, and defibrilation.
Advanced Life Support (ALS)
A physical injury or wound caused by external force or violence.
Trauma
Medical policies, procedures, and practices that are available to providers either on line or off line.
Medical Direction
The 1966 publication of accidental death and disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society.
The White Paper
D.O.T. developed the first paramedic curriculum when?
1977
Medical facility that has the capability of caring for the acutely injured patient. These centers must meet strict criteria to use this designation.
Trauma Center.
A licensed physician, professionally unrelated to patients on scene, who attempts to assist EMS providers with patient care.
Intervener Physician
Preauthorized treatment procedures, a type of treatment protocol.
Standing Orders.
The process by which an agency or association grants recognition to an individual who has met its qualifications.
Certification
The process by which a government agency grants permission to engage in a given occupation to an applicant who has attained the degree of competency required to ensure the publics protection.
Licensure
Refers to the existence of a specialized body of knowledge of skills.
Proffesion.
The process of entering your name and essential information within a particular record. In EMS this is done in order to the state to verify the providers initial certification and to monitor recertification.
Registration
The process by which an agency grants automatic certification or licensure to an individual who has comparable certification or licensure form another agency.
Reciprocity
Who prepares and administers standardized tests for all four levels of certification?
National Registry of EMT’s
The conduct or qualities that characterize a practitioner in a particular field or occupation.
Professionalism
An evaluation of the quality of emergency care administered by an individual, which is conducted by that individuals peers.
Peer Review
The study of how disease affects normal body process.
Pathophysiology
Active exercise performed against stable resistance, where muscles are exercised in a motionless manner.
Isometric Exercise
Active exercise during which muscles are worked through their range of motion.
Isotonic exercise.
Any disease caused by the growth of pathogenic microorganisms, which may be spread from person to person.
Infectious Disease
Microorganisms capable of producing disease, such as bacteria and viruses.
Pathogens
The time between contact with a disease organism and the appearance of the first symptoms.
Incubation Period
Washing an object with cleaners such as soap and water.
Cleaning
