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Designated Agent correct answer: An EMT or other person authorized by a Medical Director to give medications and provide emergency care. The transfer of such authorization to a designated agent is an extension of the medical director's license to practice medicine. Evidence-based correct answer...

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Designated Agent correct answer: An EMT or other person authorized by a Medical Director to give medications and provide emergency care. The transfer of such authorization to a designated agent is an extension of the medical director's license
to practice medicine.
Evidence-based correct answer: description of medical techniques or practices that are supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy, rather than merely supposition and tradition.
Contamination correct answer: the introduction of dangerous chemicals, disease, or infectious materials
critical incident stress management (CISM) correct answer: a comprehensive system that includes education and resources to both prevent stress and to deal with stress appropriately when it occurs.
Decontamination correct answer: the removal or cleansing of dangerous chemicals and other dangerous or infectious materials.
Hazardous Material Incident correct answer: the release of harmful substance into the environment. Multiple-Casualty Incident correct answer: an emergency involving multiple patients
Pathogens correct answer: the organisms that cause infection, such as viruses and bacteria
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) correct answer: equipment that protects the EMS worker from infection and/or exposure to the dangers of rescue operations.
Standard Precautions correct answer: A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious
Stress correct answer: a state of physical and/or psychological arousal to a stimulus.
Abdominal Quadrants correct answer: four divisions of the abdomen used to pinpoint the location of pain or injury: the right
upper quadrant (RUQ), the left upper quadrant (LUQ), the right lower quadrant (RLQ), and the left lower quadrant (LLQ).
Anatomic Position correct answer: the standard reference position for the body in the study of anatomy. In this position, the body is standing erect, facing the observer, with arms down at the sides and the palms of the hands forward.
anatomy correct answer: the study of body structure
anterior correct answer: the front of the body or body parts bilateral correct answer: on both sides
combining form correct answer: a word root with an added vowel that can be joined with other words, roots, or suffixes to form a new words; thermo - meter
compound correct answer: a word formed from two or more whole words; smallpox
distal correct answer: farther away from the torso. (opposite to proximal)
dorsal correct answer: referring to the back of the body or the back of the hand or foot. Syn for posterior
Fowler Position correct answer: a sitting position
inferior correct answer: away from the head, usually compared with another structure that is closer to the head (lips are inferior to the nose)
Lateral correct answer: to the side, away from the midline of the
body
medial correct answer: toward the midline of the body
mid-axillary line correct answer: a line drawn vertically from the middle of the armpit to the ankle
mid-clavicular line correct answer: the line through the center of each clavicle midline correct answer: an imaginary line drawn down the center of the body dividing it into right and left halves
Palmar correct answer: referring to the palm of the hand
physiology correct answer: the study of body function
plane correct answer: a flat surface formed when slicing through a solid object
plantar correct answer: the sole of the foot
posterior correct answer: the back of body or body part
prefix correct answer: word part added to the beginning of a root wor word to modify or qualify its meaning
prone correct answer: lying facedown
proximal correct answer: closer to the torso (opposite of distal)
recovery position correct answer: lying on the side (lateral recumbent position)
root correct answer: foundation of a word that is not a word that
can stand on its own, for example, the root cardi meaning "heart", in words such as cardiac and cardiology
Suffix correct answer: word part added to the end of a root or words to complete its meaning; for example, itis

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