EMS system resources

Question 1

An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medicines.

Answer 1

Advanced Emergency Response Technician (AEMT)

Question 2

Advanced lifesaving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the EMT.

Answer 2

Advanced Life Support (ALS)

Question 3

Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination.

Answer 3

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Question 4

A device that detects treatable life threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient.

Answer 4

Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

Question 5

A 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.

Answer 5

Certification

Question 6

A health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to equip them to provide additional services in the prehospital environment, such as health evaluations, monitoring of chronic illnesses or conditions, and patient advocacy.

Answer 6

Community Paramedicine

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

Question 8

A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.

Answer 8

Emergency Medical Dispatcher (EMD)

Question 9

The first trained professional, such as a police officer, firefighter, lifeguard, or other rescuer, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.

Answer 9

Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)

Question 10

A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured.

Answer 10

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

Question 12

Federal legislation passed in 1996. Its main effect in EMS is in limiting availability of patients’ health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy.

Answer 12

Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Question 13

The delivery of medication directly into a vein.

Answer 13

Intravenous (IV) Therapy

Question 14

The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated act.

Answer 14

Licensure

Question 15

Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidelines (offline/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service program

Answer 15

Medical Control

Question 16

The physician who authorizes or delegated to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field.

Answer 16

Medial Director

Question 17

A method of delivering health care which involves providing health care within the community rather than at the Phyician’s office or hospital.

Answer 17

Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH)

Question 18

A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that outline the skills performed by various EMS providers.

Answer 18

National EMS Scope of Practice Model

Question 19

An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills.

Answer 19

Paramedic

Question 20

Efforts to prevent injury or illness from ever occurring.

Answer 20

Primary Prevention

Question 21

The designated area in which the EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.

Answer 21

Primary Service Area (PSA)

Question 22

Focused on examining the health needs entire populations with the goal Of preventing health problems.

Answer 22

Public Health

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Public safety Access Point

Question 24

The responsibility of the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMTs on each call.

Answer 24

Quality Control

Question 25

Efforts to limit effects of an injury and illness that cannot completely prevent.

Answer 25

Secondary prevention