Certification - answer-An exam used to ensure that all the healthcare providers have atleast the same level of basic knowledge and skill
Licensure - answer-The process in which states ensure applicant competency in an examination setting
Medical Director - answer-a physician who assumes ultim...
, FDNY EMS FINAL 21-02
Certification - answer-An exam used to ensure that all the healthcare providers
have atleast the same level of basic knowledge and skill
Licensure - answer-The process in which states ensure applicant competency in an
examination setting
Medical Director - answer-a physician who assumes ultimate responsibility for the
patient-care aspects of the EMS system
medical control - answer-Provider either offline or online as authorized by a medical
director
online - answer-Direction given over the phone or radio
Offline - answer-Standing orders
consent - answer-to give permission
Decision making capacity - answer-Ability to understand and process information
and make a choice regarding appropriate medical care.
expressed consent - answer-consent given when the patient verbally or otherwise
acknowledge that he or she wants to provide care or transport may also be
nonverbal
informed consent - answer-Permission for treatment given by a competent patient
after the potential risks, benefits and alternatives to treatment have been explained
Implied concent( emergency doctrine) - answer-A patient who is on conscience or
otherwise in capable to make a rational decision a serious medical condition exists
and should never be used unless there is a threat to life or a limb (may result
medicolegal situation)
emancipated minor - answer-Person younger than 18 years of age who lives
independently, is totally self-supporting, is married or divorced, is a parent even if
not married, or is in the military and possesses decision-making rights.
Definitive signs of death - answer-decapitation, dependent lividity, rigor mortis,
putrefaction
Noise - answer-Anything that makes it difficult to understand the question
Routes of transmission - answer-Bloodborn, airborn, vector, foodborne, indirect
contact
Standard Precautions - answer-PPE and Hygiene
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