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Chapter 1 - EMS Systems

Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Twelfth Edition
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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.
An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a particular profession, or function as an organization.
Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination.
An approach to medicine where decisions are based on well-conducted research, classifying recommendations based on the strength of the scientific evidence, also called science-based medicine.
Efforts to limit the effects on an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent.
Advanced life-saving procedures, some of which are now being provided by the EMT.
The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated act.
Federal legislation passed in 1996. Its main effect in EMS is in limiting availability of patients' health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy
Physician instructions 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.
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Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring
A first trained professional, such as a police officer, firefighter, lifeguard or other rescuer, who may arrive first at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system aiming at improving outcomes.
A process in which a person an institutiion or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certian predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care
An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced slife support such as intravenous therapy, and administration of certain emergency medications
The designated area in which the EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital
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.
An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring and other advanced assessment and treatment skills
The delivery of medication directly into a vein.
A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient.
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.
A method of delivering health care that involves providing health care within the community rather than at a physician's office or hospital.