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West Coast EMT Final VocabAdvanced EMT (AEMT) -
✅An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as
intravenous therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications.
Advanced Life Support (ALS) -
✅Advanced lifesaving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the EMT.
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) -
✅Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against
discrimination.
Automated External Defibrillator (AED) -
✅A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular
fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient.
Certification -
✅A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as
meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care.
Community Paramedicine -
✅A health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to
equip them to provide additional services in the prehospital environment, such as health
evaluations, monitoring of chronic illnesses or conditions, and patient advocacy.
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) -
✅A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system.
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.
Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) -
✅The first trained professional such as a police officer, firefighter, lifeguard, or other
rescuer, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) -
✅A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals
and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured.
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) -
✅An individual who has training in basic life support, including automated external
defibrillation, use of a definitive airway adjunct, and assisting patients with certain medications.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) -
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,Intravenous (IV) Therapy -
✅The delivery of medication directly into a vein.
Licensure -
✅The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to perform
a regulated act.
Medical Control -
✅Physician instruction given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly
by protocol/guidelines (off-line/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service
program.
Medical Director -
✅The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical
care in the field.
Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) -
✅A method of delivering health care which involves providing health care within the
community rather than at a physician's office or hospital.
National EMS Scope of Practice Model -
✅A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers.
Paramedic -
✅An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including
endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced
assessment and treatment skills.
Primary Prevention -
✅Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
Primary Service Area (PSA) -
✅The designated area in which the EMS service is responsible for the provision of
prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.
Public Health -
✅Focused on examining the health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing
health problems.
Public Safety Access Point -
✅A call center, staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for
police, fire, and ambulance services.
Quality Control -
✅The responsibility of the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care
standards are met by EMTs on each call.
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,Secondary Prevention -
✅Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent.
Acute Stress Reactions -
✅Reaction to stress that occurs during a stressful situation.
Airborne Trasmission -
✅The spread of an organism via droplets or dust.
Bloodborne Pathogens -
✅Pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in
humans. These pathogens include, but are not limited to, hepatitis B virus and human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) -
✅The primary federal agency that conducts and supports public health activities in the
United States. The CDC is part of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Communicable Disease -
✅A disease that can be spread from one person or species to another.
Concealment -
✅The use of objects to limit a person's visibility of you.
Contamination -
✅The presence of infectious organisms on or in objects such as dressings, water, food,
needles, wounds, or a patient's body.
Cover -
✅The tactical use of an impenetrable barrier for protection.
Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) -
✅A process that confronts the responses to critical incidents and defuses them, directing
the emergency services personnel toward physical and emotional equilibrium.
Cumulative Stress Reactions -
✅Prolonged or excessive stress.
Delayed Stress Reactions -
✅Reaction to stress that occurs after a stressful situation.
Designated Officer -
✅The individual in the department who is charged with the responsibility of managing
exposures and infection control issues.
Direct Contact -
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, ✅Exposure of transmission of a communicable disease from one person to another by
physical contact.
Exposure -
✅A situation in which a person has had contact with blood, body fluids, tissues, or
airborne particles in a manner that suggests disease transmission may occur.
Foodborne Transmission -
✅The contamination of food or water with an organism that can cause disease.
General Adaptation Syndrome -
✅The body's response to stress that begins with an alarm response, followed by a stage of
reaction and resistance, and then recovery or, if the stress is prolonged, exhaustion.
Hepatitis -
✅Inflammation of the liver, usually caused by a viral infection, that causes fever, loss of
appetite, jaundice, fatigue, and altered liver function.
Host -
✅The organism or individual that is attacked by the infecting agent.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) -
✅Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is caused by HIV, which damages the
cells in the body's immune system so that the body is unable to fight infection or certain cancers.
Immune -
✅The body's ability to protect itself from acquiring a disease.
Indirect Contact -
✅Exposure or transmission of disease from one person to another by contact with a
contaminated object.
Infection -
✅The abnormal invasion of a host or host tissues by organisms such as bacteria, viruses,
or parasites, with or without signs or symptoms of disease.
Infection Control -
✅Procedures to reduce transmission of infection among patients and health care
personnel.
Infectious Disease -
✅A medical condition caused by the growth and spread of small, harmful organisms
within the body.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) -
✅The federal regulatory compliance agency that develops, publishes, and enforces
guidelines concerning safety in the workplace.
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