CHP1 EMS Systems

oversight by the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMTs on each call

• Quality control

• MIH

• Continuous quality improvement

• Public health

federal legislation passed in 1996 it’s main effect in EMS is in limiting availability of patients health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy

• Quality control

• EMD

• CQI

• HIPAA

EMD

• Emergency medical director

• Emergency medical dude

• Emergency medial dispatch

• Emergency medical distress

what type of care do EMT provide

• IV therapy, advanced airway management, and the administration of certain emergency medications

• Interpretation of heart rhythms, advanced airway management, and emergency pharmacology

• Basic emergency care, initialing stabilization, AED, definitive airway adjuncts, and assisting with certain medications

• Knowledge skills and abilities

The legal authority to practice in his or her state

• Certification

• Licensure

• Credentialing

• EMS agenda

Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring

• Public safety access point

• Primary prevention

• Secondary prevention

• MIH

Quality control

• Oversight by the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMT’s on each call

• A call center staffed by trained personnel

• An individual who has extensive training

• A system to provide prehospital care to the sick and injured

MIH is

• And inherently safe and effective system

• The verification process of a health care providers qualifications

• Having the greatest depth and breadth of of education and training

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

Basic life saving interventions such as CPR

• BLS

• ALS

• EMT

• Paramedic

Which is the correct term for the legislation that protects disabled individuals from discrimination

• ADA

• EMD

• CQI

• AAD