Chap 1 Ems Systems Flashcards
Certification
Recognized by an institution by meeting certain standards
Licensure
State grants permission to practice a job/
1966
Accidental death and disability; the neglected disease of modern society. First set of standards.
Responsible for continuing education
Medical director
CQI
Used for improve my or a change in patient care.
Standing orders
Protocol or offline medical control
How does carbon monoxide affect oxygenated blood
Combined with hemoglobin in red blood cells 200 times more than oxygen does. Blocks hemoglobin to transport oxygen to body
Communicable disease
Spread from person to person
Infectious disease
Growth and spread of small harmful organisms in the body
Vector-borne transmission
Animal that spreads organism to person to person or place to place
Expressed consent
PT verbalized or expressed that they want you to provide care
Informed consent
You explain everything about care to them and then they give you consent
Implied consent
Legal principle that allows treatment of the PT was able to give you consent
Hazards present in structure fires (7)
Smoke Oxygen deficiency High temp Toxic gas Building collapse Equipment Explosions
Best way to reduce disease after exposure
Proper hand washing
Time to clean ambulance
At hospital after PT has been transferred
Stages of dying (5)
Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance
HIV and hep are traced back to what
Careless handling of sharps
Disease offers no protection from reinfection
Gonorrhea
Syphillis
HIV
Acute stress
Stress comes from the job you’re doing now
Delayed stress
Stressed after the event took place
Cumulative stress
Exposed to prolonged or excessive stress
PTSD
Reexperiencing certain events and overresponding
General adaption syndrome
Alarm response
Followed by stage of reaction
Then recovery or if stress is prolonged-exhaustion
Quo’s pro quo
Requesting sexual favors in return of promotions
Minor to be treated as adult
Married
Has a child
Lives completely on their own
Negligence
Failure to provide care that someone with similar training would’ve provided.
Criteria that must be met for NEGLIGENCE
DUTY
BREACH OF DUTY
DAMAGE
CAUSATION
Putrefaction
Second of body 40-96 hours after death
Official transfer of PT
Oral report is given to someone with equal or higher training as you
When to notify medical control
Incoming patient
Request advice
Receive orders
Advise hospital of special situation
Ethnocentrism
Viewing your cultural values more important than someone else’s
Libel
Written defamation
Slander
Spoken defamation
Proximal
Closer to trunk
Distal
Further from trunk-nearer to end of extremity
Pathy
Means disease
Example:nephropathy-kidney disease
Res ipsa liquitor
Held accountable even when the plaintiff is unable to clearly demonstrate how they were injured
Negligence per se
Emt negligently violates statute on purpose
Torts
Civil wrong
Assault
Putting a person in fear of bodily harm
Battery
Unlawfully touching someone
Ethics
Right and wrong
Morals
What you knowingly should and shouldn’t do
Ashen skin??
Poor peripheral circulation
Skin cyanotic??
Blood not properly saturated with oxygen
Base station radio
Any radio hardware containing a transmitter and receiver in a fixed place
Dedicated line or HOT LINE
Used for specific point to point contact
VHF
30-300mhz
UHF
300-3,000mhz
Repeater
Base station that receives massages on one frequency and repeats them on a second frequency
