EMS Systems - Ch. 1 Flashcards
The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated act.
Licensure
A call center, staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, fire, and ambulance services.
Public safety access point
Advanced life-saving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the EMT.
Advanced life support
The designated area in which the EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.
Primary service area
The delivery of medication directly into a vein.
Intravenous therapy
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.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
A method of delivering health care that involves providing health care within the community rather than at a physician’s office or hospital.
mobile integrated health care
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.
emergency medical dispatch
An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a particular profession, or to function as an organization.
credentialing
Oversight by the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMTs on each call.
quality control
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.
Certification
A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured.
emergency medical services
Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidelines (off-line/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service program.
medical control
An approach to medicine where decisions are based on well-conducted research, classifying recommendations based on the strength of the scientific evidence; also called science-based medicine.
evidence-based medicine
The branch of medicine that is focused on examining the health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing health problems.
public health
