Ch. 1 EMS Systems

Question 1

Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)

Answer 1

An emergency medical provider who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy and administration of certain medications.

Question 2

Advanced Life Support (ALS)

Answer 2

Advanced Life saving procedures some of which are now being provided by AEMTs.

Question 3

Americans with Disabilities Act

Answer 3

Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination.

Question 4

Automated External Defibrillator

Answer 4

A device that detects treatable life threatening cardiac arrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient.

Question 5

Certification

Answer 5

A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meating certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care.

Question 6

Continuous Quality Improvement

Answer 6

A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS System

Question 7

Emergency Medical Dispatch

Answer 7

A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and in providing callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.

Question 8

Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)

Answer 8

the first trained person such as a police officer, fire fighter, or other rescuer, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.

Question 9

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Answer 9

A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to sick and injured patients.

Question 10

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

Answer 10

An emergency medical provider who has training in basic emergency care skills, including automated external defibrillation, use of definitive airway adjunct, and assisting patients with certain medications.

Question 11

Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Answer 11

The legislation enacted in 1996 providing for criminal sanctions and for civil penalties for releasing a patient’s protected information in a way no authorized by the patient.

Question 12

Licensure

Answer 12

The process whereby a state allows qualified people to perform a regulated act.

Question 13

Medical Control

Answer 13

Physician instructions that are given directly by radio (online or direct) or indirectly by protocols or guidelines (offline or indirect) as authorized by the medical director of the service program.

Question 14

Medical Director

Answer 14

The physician who authorizes or delegates to the provider the authority to perform health care in the field.

Question 15

National EMS Scope of Practice Model

Answer 15

A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers.

Question 16

Paramedic

Answer 16

An emergency medical provider who has extensive training in advanced life support, including intravenous therapy, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills.

Question 17

Primary Prevention

Answer 17

Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring

Question 18

Primary Service Area

Answer 18

The designed area in which an EMS service is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.

Question 19

Public Health

Answer 19

Focused on examining the health needs of populations with the goal of preventing health problems.

Question 20

Public Safety Access Point

Answer 20

A call center staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, fire fighting and ambulance services.

Question 21

Quality Control

Answer 21

The responsibility of the medical director to ensure that appropriate medical care standards are met by AEMTs on each call.

Question 22

Reciprocity

Answer 22

The recognition by one state of another state’s licensure, allowing a health care professional from another state practice in the new state.

Question 23

Secondary Practice

Answer 23

Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent.