Chapter 1

Question 0

EMR

EMT

Answer 0

Emergency Medical Responder

Emergency Medical Technician

Question 1

Team of health care professionals who, in each area or jurisdiction, are responsible for and provide emergency care and transportation to the sick and injured

Answer 1

Emergency Medical Services EMS

Question 2

Decides day to day limits of EMS personnel. Can limit scope of practice but cannot expand it beyond state law.

Answer 2

Medical director

Question 3

Detect life threatening cardiac arrhythmias and deliver the appropriate electrical shock to the patient

Answer 3

Automated external defibrillator

Question 4

Individual who has training in basic life support, including automated external defibrillation, use of a definitive airway adjunct, and assisting patients with certain medications.
Requires 150 hrs

Answer 4

EMT

Question 5

Training in specific apsects of ALS, such as IV therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications

Answer 5

AdvancedEMT. AEMT

Question 6

An extensive course training in ALS, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills

Answer 6

Paramedic

Question 7

Future components of an EMS System

Answer 7

Public Access, Clinical Care, medical direction, integration of health services, information systems, prevention, EMS research, communication systems, human resources, legislation and regulation, evaluation, system finance, public education, education systems

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

Question 9

Assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance

Answer 9

Emergency medical dispatch EMD

Question 10

Limiting availability of patients health care information amd penalizing violations of patient privacy

Answer 10

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA

Question 11

Delivery of medication directly into the vein

Answer 11

Intravenous IV Therapy

Question 12

Physician instructions that are given directly by radio or cell phone

Answer 12

Online/direct medical control

Question 13

Indirectly by protocol/guidelines as authorized by the medical director of the service program

Answer 13

OffLine/indirect medical control

Question 14

Document created by the NHTSA that outlines the skills performed by various ems providers

Answer 14

National EMS Scope of Practice Model

Question 15

Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occuring

Answer 15

Primary prevention

Question 16

Designated area in which the ems service is responsible for the provision of pre hospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital

Answer 16

Primary service area. PSA

Question 17

Focused on examining health needs of entire populatons with the goal of preventing health problems

Answer 17

Public health

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Public safety access point

Question 19

Responsibility of the medical director to ensure that the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMTs on each call

Answer 19

Quality control

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Secondary prevention