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| An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as Intravenous therapy, and the adminstration of certain emergency medications. |
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| Advanced Life Support (ALS) |
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| Advanced lifesaving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the EMT |
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| Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) |
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| Comprehensive Legistaltion that is designed to protect individuals with disabilities against discrimination. |
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| Automated External Defibrillator (AED) |
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| A device that dectects treatable life-threating cardia arrythmias and delivers the appropiate electrical shock to the patient. |
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| A process in which a person, an insitution, or a program is evaulated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care. |
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| Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) |
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| A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an ems system. |
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| Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) |
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| A system that assists dispatched in selecting appropiate untis to respond to a particular call for assistance and in providing callers with vital instruction untl the arrival of ems crews. |
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| Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) |
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The first trained individual (Police officer, firefighter, life gaurd) or other rescuer, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide intial medical assistance.
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| Emergency Medical Services (EMS) |
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| A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured. |
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| Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) |
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| An individual who had training in basic life support, including AED's use of airway adjuncts, and assisting pts. with certian medications. |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) |
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| Federal legislation passed in 1996. Its main effect in EMS is in limiting availability of pts. health care information and penalizing violations of pts. privacy. |
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| National EMS Scope of Practice |
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Skills that each level of EMS providers should be able to accomplish. You cannot practice outside of your scope.
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| Ensuring all staff members who are involved in the caring of pts. meet the appropiate medical care standards on each call. |
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| Delivery of medications directly into a vein. |
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| The process whereby a state allows individuals to perform a regulated act. |
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| Physician instructions that are given directly by radio or cell phone or by protocols/guidlines as authorized by the medical director of the service program |
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| The physician who authorized or delegates to the emt the authority to provide medical care in the field |
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