Chapter 1 Flashcards
A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide ethical care.
A) Licensure
B) Certification
C) Qualification
D) Authorization
B) Certification
An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications.
A) EMR
B) AEMT
C) Paramedic
D) EMT
B) AEMT
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 illness or conditions, and patient advocacy.
Community paramedicine
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of aspects of an EMS system aiming at improving outcomes.
A) Quality Control
B) Continuous quality improvement
C) Accountability
D) Standard of care
B) Continuous quality improvement (CQI)
An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a particular profession, or to function as an organization.
A) certification
B) credentialing
C) documentation
D) licensing
B) Credentialing
A system that assists dispatches in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.
EMD
An approach to medicine where decisions are based on well conducted research, classifying recommendations based on the strength of the scientific evidence; also called science based medicine.
EBM Evidence based medicine
The delivery of medication directly into a vein
Intravenous therapy (IV)
The process whereby a component authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated act.
A) Credentials
B) Authorization
C) Licensure
D) Qualification
C) Licensure
Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidlines (off-line/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service program.
A) Medical director
B) Medical personnel
C) Medical Authorization
D) Medical Control
D) Medical Control
The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field.
Medical Director
A method of delivering health care that involves providing health care within the community rather than at a physician’s office or hospital
Mobile integrated health care (MIH)
A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers
National EMS scope of practice model
An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacies-cology, cardiac monitoring and other advanced assessment and treatment skills.
Paramedic
Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
Primary Prevention
The designated area in which EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.
Primary Service Area
The Branch of Medicine that is focused on examining the Health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing Health Problems.
Public Health
Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you can’t completely prevent.
Secondary Prevention
If an EMT has been convicted of a Felony or a Misdemeanor they should?
Contact the State EMS office and provide its staff with the required documentation.
According to the National EMS Scope of Practice, an EMT should be able to?
assist a patient with certain prescribed medications.
EMT as we know it today had its origins in 1966 with the publications of?
Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society.
If a defibrillator manufacturer claims that its device terminates ventricular fibrillation on the first shock 95% of the time, you should?
Recognize that this does not mean the device will save more lives.
The determination that prompt surgical care in the hospital is more important than performing time-consuming procedures in the field on a major trauma patient is based mostly on?
EMS Research
The standards for prehospital emergency care and the individual who provide it are typically regulated by the?
State office of EMS
