Chapters 1-8 Flashcards
Vocabulary words
AEMT
An individual who has training in specific of aspects of advanced life support, intravenous therapy, administration of certain emergency medications.
ADA
Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination in hiring process
AED
Device that detects treatable life threatening cardic dysthymias (delivers appropriate ate electoral shock to the patient
Certification
Process in which a person an institution or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care
CQI Continous quality improvement
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system
EMT
Emergency medical technician, who has training in basic life support, AED, use of a definitive airway adjuct, assisting patients with certain medications.
HIPAA
Health insurance portable accountability Act, a federal legislation passed in 1966, ems , limiting availability of patients health care information, penalizing violations of patients privacy.
Medical control
Physican instructions given directly by radio of cellular phone online/direct, or indirectly by protocols/guidelines offline, indirect, as authorized by medical director of service program.
Paramedic
An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology cardic monitoring.
Public safety access point
A call center staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, fire, ambulance services.
Acute stress reactions
Reactions to stress that occur during a stressful situation.
Cumulative stress reactions
Prolonged or excessive stress
General adaptation syndrome
Body’s response to stress that begins with an alarm response, followed by a stage of reactions and resistance, than recovery or if the stress is prolonged exhaustion.
OSHA
Occupational safety and health administration, federal regulatory compliance agency that develops, publishing, enforce guidelines concerning safety in workplace.
Vector- Borne transmission
Use an animal to spread an organism from one person or place to another.
Abandonment
Unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient’s consent and without making provisionsUnilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient’s consent and without making provisions For transferring care to another medical professional with the skills and training necessary to meet the needs of that patient.
Advance directive
A written documentation that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient if patient becomes unable to make decisions (living will)
Contribute negligence
A legal defense that Maybe raised when the defendant feels that the conduct of the plaintiff’s somehow contributed to any injuries or damages that were sustained by the plaintiff.
Defamation
The communication of false information about person that is damaging to the person’s reputation or standing in the community.
Dependent lividity
Blood Saturn to the lowest point of the body, causing discoloration of the skin indefinite sign of death.
DNR orders
Do not resuscitate, an written Document by the physician given permission to medical personnel not to attempt reservation in the event of carrots arrest Document by the physician given permission to medical personnel not to attempt resuscitation in the event of Cardic arrest.
Duty to Act
A medicolegal Term relating to certain personal who is either by statue or by function have responsibly to provide care.
Emergency doctrine
The principle of a law that permits health care provider to treat a patient in a emergency situation when the patient is incapable of granting consent because of an altered level of consciousness, disability, the effects of drugs or alcohol, or patients age.
Expressed consent
A type of consent in which a patient gets verbal or a number of authoritarian provision of care of transport.
False imprisonment
Confinement of Of a person without legal authority or the person consent.
Gross negligence
Conduct that constitutes a willful or reckless disregard for a duty or standard of care.
Implied consent
A type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that here she would want treatment.
Inloco parentis
Refers to a legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions responsibilities of a patient.
Negligence
Failure to provide the same care that a person with similar training would provide.
Putrefaction
Decomposition Is of the body tissue a definitive of death.
Slander
Falls and damaging information about a person day is communicated by spoken word.
Closed-end questions
Questions that can be answered in a short or single word responses.
Med Channels
VHF and UHF channels that the federal communications commission has designated exclusively for ems use.
Open-end questions
Questions for which the patient must provide detail to give an answer.
PCR
Patient care report is a legal document used to record all patient’s char activities and it has direct patient construction but also administration and quality control functions.
Therapeutic communication
Verbal and non verbal communication techniques that encourage patients to express their feelings and to achieve a positive relationship.
Abduction
Motion of the limp away from the midline.
Adduction
Motion of a limp towards the Midline.
Bilateral
A body part or condition that appears on both sides of the Midline.
Distal
Further from the trunk or nearer to the free end of extremity.
Doral
The posterior surface of the body, including back of the hand .
Inferior
Below a body part or nearer to the feet.
Lateral
Parts of the body that lie farther from the midline.
Medial
Parts of the body that lie closer to the midline.
Posterior
The back surface of the body
Prefix
Part of the term that appears before a word root. Changing the meaning of the term.
Proximal
Closer to the truck
Quadrants
Sections of the abdominal cavity, dividing the abdomen into 4 equal areas.
Suffix
The part of a term that comes after the root word,
Superior
Above a body part or nearer to the head.
Supine
Lying face up
Ventral
The anterior surface of the body.
Acetabulum
Depression on the pelvis where it’s 3 component bones join, in which the femoral head fits snugly.
Adenosine triphosphate
ATP, the nucleotide involved in energy metabolism used to stored energy.
Aerioc metabolism
Metabolism that can proceed only in the presence of oxygen.
Aorta
The main Artery leaving the left side of the heart and carrying freshly oxygenated blood to the body.
Atrium
One of the upper chambers of the heart.
Bile ducts
The ducts that convey bile between the liver and intestine.
Brachial artey
The major vessel in the upper extremely that supplies blood to the arm.
Cardiac muscle
The heart muscle.
Cardic output
Measure of the volume of blood circulated by the heart in 1 minute, calculated by multiplying the stroke volume by the heart rate
Cerebrum
One of the 3 major subdivisions of the brain
Cervical spine
The portion of the spinal column consisting of the first 7 vertebrae that lie in the neck.
Clavicle
The collar bone it is lateral to the sternum and anterior to the scapula
