efforts to limits the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent

• primary prevention

• secondary prevention

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

• quality control

• medical direction

a call center, staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, fire, and ambulance services

• public health

• public safety access point

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

• primary service area

• public health

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

• primary service area

• public health

efforts to prevent an illness or injury from ever occurring

• primary prevention

• secondary prevention

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

• EMT

• Paramedic

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

• National EMS Scope of Practice Model

• standing orders

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

• Mobile Integrated Health Care (MIH)

• Non-Mobile Integrated Health Care (NMIH)

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

• Medical Director

• Medical control