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EMR: Vital Vocabulary Flashcards

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Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)

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A person who is able to perform basic life support skills and limited advanced life support skills

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Advanced Life Support (ALS)

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The use of specialized equipment (such as cardiac monitors and defibrillators) and specialized techniques (such as intravenous fluid administration, drug infusion, and endotracheal intubation) to stabilize a patient’s condition

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Appropriate medical facility

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A hospital or medical clinic with adequate medical resources to provide continuing care to sick or injured patients who are transported after filed treatment by emergency medical responders

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Basic Life Support (BLS)

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Emergency life-saving procedures performed without advanced emergency procedures to stabilize the condition of patients who have experienced sudden illness or injury

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Certification

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The process by which a person, institution, or programs is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain standards to ensure safe and ethical patient care

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Defibrillation

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Process of delivering an electric shock through a person’s chest wall and heart for the purpose of ending lethal heart rhythms such as ventricular fibrillation and to help establish normal heart contraction rhythms

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Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)

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The first medically trained person to arrive on the scene

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Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

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A person who is trained and certified to provide basic life support and certain other noninvasive prehospital medical procedures

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Emergency response communications center

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A fire, police, or emergency medical services agency; a 9-1-1 center; or a seven-digit telephone number used by one or all the emergency agencies to receive and dispatch requests for emergency care; also called a public safety answering point

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Paramedic

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A person trained and certified to provide advanced life support

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Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)

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A fire, police, or emergency medical services agency; a 9-1-1 center; or a seven-digit telephone number used by one or all of the emergency agencies to receive and dispatch requests for emergency agencies to receive and dispatch requests for emergency care; also called an emergency response communications center

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Crew Resource Management (CRM)

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A set of procedures for use in environments where human error can have disastrous consequences. It empowers people within a team to communicate effectively with one another with a goal of improving team situational awareness, patient and crew safety, and overall communication

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Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)

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A system of psychological support designed to reduce stress on emergency personnel after a major stress-producing incident

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Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)

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A process that confronts the responses to critical incidents and defuses them, directing the emergency services personnel toward physical and emotional equilibrium

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On-scene peer support

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Stress counselors at the scene of stressful incidents who help emergency personnel deal with stress

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Pathogens

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Microorganisms that are capable of causing disease

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Preincident stress education

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Training about stress and stress reactions conducted for public safety personnel before they are exposed to stressful situations

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Standard precautions

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An infection control concept that treats all body fluids as potentially infectious

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Abandoment

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Failure of the emergency medical responder to continue emergency medical treatment until relieved by someone with the same or a higher level of training

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Advance directive

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A legal document that indicates what a person wants done if he or she cannot make his or her own medical decisions. Advance directives include living wills, durable powers of attorney for health care, and do not resuscitate orders

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Competent

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Able to make rational decisions about personal well-being

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Consent

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In the context of emergency medical services, permission to provide care

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Dependent lividity

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Blood settling to the lowest point of the body after death, causing discoloration of the skin

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Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order

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A written request giving permission to medical personnel not to attempt resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest

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Durable power of attorney for health care

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A legal document that allows a patient to designate another person to make medical decisions for him or her if the patient is unable to make his or her own treatment decisions

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Duty to act

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An emergency medical responder’s legal responsibility to respond quickly to an emergency scene and provide medical care (within the limits of training and available equipment)

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Expressed consent

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Consent actually given by a person, either verbally or nonverbally, authorizing the emergency medical responder to provide care or transportation

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Good samaritan laws

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Laws that encourage citizens to voluntarily help an injured or suddenly ill person by minimizing the liability for any errors or omissions in providing good faith emergency care

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Implied consent

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Consent to receive emergency medical care that is assumed because the individual is unconscious, underage, or so badly injured, or ill that he or she cannot respond

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Informed consent

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Permission for treatment given by a competent patient after potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained

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Living will

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A legal document that states the types of medical care a person wants or wants withheld if he or she is unable to make his or her own treatment decisions. Living wills may include do not resuscitate orders

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Negligence

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Deviation from the accepted standard of care resulting in further injury to the patient

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Standard of care

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The manner in which an individual must act or behave when giving care

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Standing orders

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Written documents, signed by the emergency medical service system’s medical director, that outline specific directions, permissions, and sometimes prohibitions regarding patient care; also called protocols

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Base station

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A powerful two-way radio that is permanently mounted in a communications center

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Channel

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An assigned frequency or frequencies that are used to carry voice and/or date communications

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Communication

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The transmission of information to another person

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Digital messaging

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Technology that includes email, text messages, and social media, which are increasingly used emergency medical responders to send and receive various types of information

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Documentation

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The recorded portion of the emergency medical responder’s patient interaction, either written or electronic

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Fax machine

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A device used to send or receive printed text documents or images over a telephone or radio communications system

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Mobile Data Terminal (MDT)

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A computer terminal mounted in a vehicle that sends and receives fate through a radio communications system

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Mobile radio

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A two-way radio that is permanently mounded in an emergency vehicle that draws electricity from the electrical system of the vehicle

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Paging systems

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Communications system used to send voice or text messages over a radio system to specially designed radio receivers

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Portable radio

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A handheld, battery-operated, two-way radio

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Repeater

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A radio system that automatically retransmits a radio signal on a different frequency

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Telemetry

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A process in which electronic signals are transmitted and received by radio or telephone; commonly used for sending electrocardiogram tracings

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Trunked communications system

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A computer-controlled radio system that allows that sharing of few radio frequencies among a large group of users

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