Chapter 1

Question 1

Advance Emergency Medical Technician(Aemt)

Answer 1

Provides both basic and limited advanced emergency medical care and transportation to patients in the prehospital environment

Question 2

Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA)

Answer 2

Protects individuals who have a documented disability from being denied initial or continued employment based on their disability.

Question 3

Community Paramedicine

Answer 3

Provision of patient centered health care in the out-of-hospital environment using mobile technology and resources

Question 4

Emergency medical responder (EMR)

Answer 4

Provides immediate lifesaving care to patients who have accessed the ems system while they are waiting for higher level responders(EMTs and/or Paramedics)

Question 5

Emergency Medical Technician(EMT)

Answer 5

Provides basic emergency medical care and transportation to patients who access the ems system.

Question 6

EMS system

Answer 6

Permits patient care to begin at the scene of the injury or illness

Question 7

Evidence-based guidelines(EBG)

Answer 7

Uses strong valid research studies to develop guidelines for medical practice

Question 8

Evidence-based medicine

Answer 8

Focuses on research to provide clear evidence that certain procedures,medications, and equipment improve the patients outcome

Question 9

Direct medical oversight

Answer 9

Real-time oversight or medical direction provided by a physician to and ems provider who is seeking immediate feed back

Question 10

Indirect medical oversight

Answer 10

Makes up the majority of the medical director’s responsibilities and activities.

Question 11

Medical director

Answer 11

Physician who is legally responsible for the clinical and patient care aspects of the ems system

Question 12

Medical oversight

Answer 12

Comprehensive term for the responsibilities of the ems systems medical director

Question 13

Mobile interstates healthcare(MIH)

Answer 13

Provision of patient centered health care in the out-of-hospital environment using mobile technology and resources

Question 14

Off-line medical direction

Answer 14

Provided through a set of predetermined, written guidelines, often referred to as standing orders

Question 15

Online medical direction

Answer 15

Ems provider and physician communicate by cell phone telephone or radio or video technology with physician providing immediate feed back

Question 16

On scene medical direction

Answer 16

Feedback and medical direction regarding the patients diagnosis condition and emergency care provided by the ems medical director physician who’s is on-scene with the ems crew

Question 17

Paramedic

Answer 17

Skills of both emt and aemt with addition of more advanced assessment and patient management skills and provision of the highest level of prehospital care

Question 18

Prehospital care

Answer 18

Emergency medical treatment given to patients before they are transported to a hospital or other facility

Question 19

Protocols

Answer 19

Full set of guidelines that define the entire scope of medical care( triage treatment transport destination)

Question 20

Quality improvement

Answer 20

Also known as continuous quality improvement is a system of internal abs external reviews and audits of all aspects of an emergency medical system

Question 21

Standing orders

Answer 21

Subset of protocols that do not require real-time physician input