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1. EMS Emergency Medical Services
the chain of human resources and services linked together to provide
continuous care
2. Medical Director The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to
provide
medical care in the field.
3. Medical the medical policies, procedures, and practices established by the medical
Over- sight direc- tor of an EMS system.
4. Scope of practice The skills and responsibilities of your level of training.
5. Types of EMS Per- Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
sonal Emergency Medical Technician (EMT
Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)
Paramedics
6. Roles of an EMT Asessment, care, transportation
*possibly starting IV lines, or Advanced Airways
7. Roles of an AEMT EMT plus IVs, Advanced Airways, and certain drugs
8. Roles of a Roles of a AEMT and interpreting ECGs/cardiac Rhythms, defibillation,
para- medic and more drugs
9. PSAP Public Safety Answering
Point A 911 operator
10. EMD Emergency Medical Dispatcher
11. Protocols written guidelines that direct the care EMS personnel provide for patients
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12. standing order written in advance of a situation that is to be carried out under specific
circum-
stances
13. off-line Standing orders issued by the Medical Director that allow EMTs to
medical give certain medications or perform certain procedures without
direction
speaking to the Medical Director or another physician.
Orders from the on-duty physician given directly to an EMT in the field
14. on-line
by radio or telephone.
medical
direction
15. PPE for EMRs Disposable Gloves
Barrier Devices
Protective Eyewear
Masks
Gowns and Aprons
16. CQI Continuous Quality Improvement
17. DMAT Disaster Medical Assistance Team
18. Duty A moral or legal obligation; a responsibility
19. standard of care the degree of care that a reasonably prudent person should exercise
under the
same or similar circumstances
20. Ethics the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making
decisions
21. Consent permission to do something
22. Capacity The patients legal rights and abilities to make decisions concerning his/her
medical care
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23. Competence Ability to comprehend the
situation 24.
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Expressed Con- consent given by adults who are of legal age and mentally competent to make a
sent rational decision in regard to their medical well-being
25. Informed Consent given by a patient after they have been informed of the care being
Con- sent suggested
26. Implied consent Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given
treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want
treatment.
27. Emancipated A person who is under the legal age in a given state but, because of
Mi- nors other circumstances, is legally considered an adult.
28. Advance A legal document designed to indicate a person's wishes regarding
Direc- tives
care in case of a terminal illness or during the dying process
29. DNR do not resuscitate
30. POLST Physicians orders for life sustaining treatment
31. Negligence Failure to provide expected standard of care
32. 4 elements duty, breach, causation, damages
of
negligence
33. Abandonment Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has
been
transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
34. Confidentiality the act of holding information in confidence, not to be released to
unauthorized individuals
35. Baseline 36. Standard preca- tions
health status
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