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AEMT

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An individual who has training in specific of aspects of advanced life support, intravenous therapy, administration of certain emergency medications.

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ADA

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Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination in hiring process

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AED

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Device that detects treatable life threatening cardic dysthymias (delivers appropriate ate electoral shock to the patient

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Certification

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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

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CQI Continous quality improvement

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

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EMT

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Emergency medical technician, who has training in basic life support, AED, use of a definitive airway adjuct, assisting patients with certain medications.

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HIPAA

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Health insurance portable accountability Act, a federal legislation passed in 1966, ems , limiting availability of patients health care information, penalizing violations of patients privacy.

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Medical control

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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.

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Paramedic

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An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology cardic monitoring.

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Public safety access point

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

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Acute stress reactions

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Reactions to stress that occur during a stressful situation.

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Cumulative stress reactions

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Prolonged or excessive stress

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General adaptation syndrome

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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.

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OSHA

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Occupational safety and health administration, federal regulatory compliance agency that develops, publishing, enforce guidelines concerning safety in workplace.

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Vector- Borne transmission

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Use an animal to spread an organism from one person or place to another.

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Abandonment

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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.

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Advance directive

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A written documentation that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient if patient becomes unable to make decisions (living will)

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Contribute negligence

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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.

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Defamation

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The communication of false information about person that is damaging to the person’s reputation or standing in the community.

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Dependent lividity

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Blood Saturn to the lowest point of the body, causing discoloration of the skin indefinite sign of death.

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DNR orders

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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.

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Duty to Act

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A medicolegal Term relating to certain personal who is either by statue or by function have responsibly to provide care.

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Emergency doctrine

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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.

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Expressed consent

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A type of consent in which a patient gets verbal or a number of authoritarian provision of care of transport.

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False imprisonment

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Confinement of Of a person without legal authority or the person consent.

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Gross negligence

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Conduct that constitutes a willful or reckless disregard for a duty or standard of care.

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Implied consent

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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.

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Inloco parentis

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Refers to a legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions responsibilities of a patient.

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Negligence

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Failure to provide the same care that a person with similar training would provide.

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Putrefaction

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Decomposition Is of the body tissue a definitive of death.

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Slander

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Falls and damaging information about a person day is communicated by spoken word.

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Closed-end questions

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Questions that can be answered in a short or single word responses.

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Med Channels

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VHF and UHF channels that the federal communications commission has designated exclusively for ems use.

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Open-end questions

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Questions for which the patient must provide detail to give an answer.

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PCR

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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.

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Therapeutic communication

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Verbal and non verbal communication techniques that encourage patients to express their feelings and to achieve a positive relationship.

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Abduction

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Motion of the limp away from the midline.

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Adduction

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Motion of a limp towards the Midline.

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Bilateral

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A body part or condition that appears on both sides of the Midline.

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Distal

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Further from the trunk or nearer to the free end of extremity.

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Doral

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The posterior surface of the body, including back of the hand .

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Inferior

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Below a body part or nearer to the feet.

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Lateral

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Parts of the body that lie farther from the midline.

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Medial

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Parts of the body that lie closer to the midline.

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Posterior

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The back surface of the body

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Prefix

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Part of the term that appears before a word root. Changing the meaning of the term.

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Proximal

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Closer to the truck

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Quadrants

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Sections of the abdominal cavity, dividing the abdomen into 4 equal areas.

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Suffix

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The part of a term that comes after the root word,

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Superior

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Above a body part or nearer to the head.

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Supine

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Lying face up

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Ventral

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The anterior surface of the body.

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Acetabulum

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Depression on the pelvis where it’s 3 component bones join, in which the femoral head fits snugly.

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Adenosine triphosphate

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ATP, the nucleotide involved in energy metabolism used to stored energy.

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Aerioc metabolism

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Metabolism that can proceed only in the presence of oxygen.

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Aorta

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The main Artery leaving the left side of the heart and carrying freshly oxygenated blood to the body.

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Atrium

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One of the upper chambers of the heart.

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Bile ducts

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The ducts that convey bile between the liver and intestine.

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Brachial artey

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The major vessel in the upper extremely that supplies blood to the arm.

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Cardiac muscle

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The heart muscle.

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Cardic output

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Measure of the volume of blood circulated by the heart in 1 minute, calculated by multiplying the stroke volume by the heart rate

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Cerebrum

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One of the 3 major subdivisions of the brain

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Cervical spine

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The portion of the spinal column consisting of the first 7 vertebrae that lie in the neck.

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Clavicle

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The collar bone it is lateral to the sternum and anterior to the scapula

Emt Vocabulary Words (1 decks)

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