EMT Chapter 1 Vocab

Define Credentialing

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

• An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a particular profession, or to function as an organization.

• Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.

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

Define Advanced life support ( ALS)

• Advanced life- saving procedures

• The delivery of medication directly into a vein.

• Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring

• Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent.

Define Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

• Federal legislation passed in 1996. It's main effect in EMS is in limiting availability of patient's health care information and penalizing violations of patients privacy.

• A method of delivering health care that involves providing health care within the community rather than at a physicians office or hospital.

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

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

Define Automated external defibrillator (AED)

• Advanced life saving procedures.

• A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient.

• The delivery of medication directly into a vein.

• Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.

Define Certification

• An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed.

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

• A method of delivering healthcare within the community rather than at a physician's office or hospital.

• A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care.

Define Advanced EMT (AEMT)

• An individual who has extensive training in advance life support

• A first trained professional who may arrive first at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.

• An induvial who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support.

• An induvial who has training in basic life support.

Define Community Paramedicine

• A health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to equip them to provide additional services in the prehospital environment.

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

• A method of delivering health care that involves providing health care within the community rather than at a physician's office or hospital.

• 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 crew.

Define Continuous quality improvement (CQI)

• Oversight by the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMTs on each call.

• A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system aiming at improving outcomes.

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

• The branch of medicine that is focused on examining the health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing health problems.

Define emergency medical dispatch (EMD)

• 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.

• A first trained professional who may arrive first at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.

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

• An individual who has training in basic life support.

Define Emergency medical responder (EMR)

• An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a particular profession, or to function as an organization.

• An individual who has training in basic life support.

• A first trained professional who may arrive first at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.

• An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support.