Ems Chapter 1-14

Why is it important for EMT’s to use accurate clocks

Inaccurate times can be used against you in court

At the scene of a medical emergency you discern that the patient has a sevear communicatable disease and you want to inform hospital staff in the most secure way, how would you do that?

Calling EMS operations and having them relay the information

what is a good reason to contact medical control?

diabetic patient refusing treatment

What system identifys the callers location when a 911 call is placed

enhanced 911

Who issues an EMS licensure

The state

After recieving initial dispatch information and informing them you are en route, when do you next cotact dispatch?

when you leave te scene

What is prohibited by the FCC over the radio?

Using offensive language

When filling out a patient care report whta should be included?

Age, Cheif Complaint, Treatment Given, Infectious Disease Exposure

what is the most likely reason an EMS systen would be collecting data from computerized medical reports?

Identifying topics for continuing education

Determine optimal unit deployment

improve quality of care in the EMS system

Determine number of cardiac calls in the system

What licence does a person who has search, rescue, and trauma training along with the ability to extract trauma patients and has skills in basic resusitaion skills.

Emergency medical responder or EMR

Americans with Disabilitys Act

prohibits employers from discriminating against people with disabilitys

DOT

Department of Transportation

ED

Emergency Department

KSA

Knowledge, Skills, Abilitys

Public safety access point

Where EMS, Fire, and Police are dispatched from: made by calling 911

REPLICA

Recognition of EMS Personel Licensure Interstate Comp Act, lets EMT’s to practice in member states for a short period

Mobile Intergrated Health Care

Health care given in the community by the EMS

Quality control

Ensuing that everyone meets medical care standards on each call

Continuous Quality improvement

Addressing chalenges within the team

Primary Prevention

Prevents the injury from ever happening

Secondary Assesment

Prevents or lessons the effect of the event

Resliance

Ability to cope with stress

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Communicatable Disease

Disease that can be spread

Infectious Diseases

Disease that is caused by the growth of harmfull oranisms

Pathogen

Microorganism created disease in the host

Contamination

Pathogens in Objects

Exposure

Persons that have come in contact with things that can cause disease transmission

PPE

Personal Protection Equipment

Transmission

The way that infectious diseases spread

Direct Contact

Organisms moved from one person to another through touch

HIV

Human Immune Deficency virus

Sexually transmitted disease

Indirect contact

Spread of infectious disease through inasimate objects

Airborne Transmission

spread of infectous diseases through dust or droplets

Food Borne Transmission

Spread of Infectious Disease through food

Vector Borne Transmission

Spread of disease through Bugs or Animals

OSHA

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Acute Stress Reactions

Nervousness, exitement, and focus increase after stress

Delayed Stress Reaction

After the stressful event you become nervous or distracted

Cumulative Stress Reaction

Prolonged and unable to shake off stress reactions

Critical Incident Stress Management

Confront respomce to PTSD and counter them

Copassion Fatigue

Gradual lessoning of compassion overtime

Consent

Someone giving permission for something

Desision making capacity

The ability to understand, process, and make an informed choice

Expressed consent

Patient expressign verbally or physically that they accept and want care

Implied Consent

When the patient is too impared to consent, the law assumes they would consent if they could

Emergency Doctrine

Implied Consent

Medicolegal

your best effort to gain consent

Protected Health Information

Medical and identifyable information

Breach of Confidentialliy

Disclosure of patients private information

DRN

Do Not Ressusitate Order, Not a refusal of care, but do not save/bring back if they die

Advanced Directive

Specifies Medical treatment for a competent person

Health Care Directive

Living Will

Dependent Livity

Blood pooling at the lowest part of the body, a major sign of death

Algor Mortis

The cooling of the body until room tempreture

Puterfaction

Decompisition of the body tissues

Scope of Practice

Outlines care that you are legally allowed to give

Standard of Care

How EMS personell must act to each and every patient

Duty to Act

Responsibility to care

Negligece

Falure to give care that adequately trained representative would give

Torts

Civil Wrongs

Abandonment

Termination of care without consent

Assult

Unlawfully hurting someone

Battery

Unlawfully touching a person

Libel

Written Defemation

Slander

Spoken Defemation

Good Samaratin laws

when you resonably care for someone you are not responsible for errors while doing your best with what you are trained for

Gross Neglence

Wilingly reckless conduct

Ethno centricism

Considering your own religious veiws as more important than others

Cultural imposition

Forcing your culture onto others

Rapport

building a trusting relationship with someone

base station

Radio with a transmitter in a fixed position

Lateral

Parts of the body that lie farther from the midline

Medial

Parts of the bod close to the midline

Superior

nearer to the head

Inferior

Nearer to the feet

Proximal

Parts of the body closer to the trunk

Distal

Parts of the body further from the trunk

superficial

closer to the skin

Deep

Farther in the body

Ventral

Belly side

Dorsal

back side

Anterior

Front surfaces

Posterior

Back surfaces

Palmer

palm

Planter

Bottom of foot

Apex

the top of a structure

Flexion

decrease of an angle of a joint

Exstension

increasing the angle of a joint

Adduction

a motion towards the midline

Abduction

A motion away from the midline

Pysiology

examine the normal functions and activitys of these body systems

Pathophysiology

The study of the changes of the body systems under the effect of a disease or syndrome

Umbilicus

Naval

Coronal (front) plane

Vertical through the body splitting it into front and back

Sagittal (Lateral) plane

Vertical into the body splitting it into left and right

Midsagittal (midline) plane

Divides the body into equal left and right planes vertically

Transversal (axial) plane

horisontaly divides the body into top and bottom

Appendicular Skeleton

extremitys

Joint

where two bones meet