chapter 1

4 types of emts

EMR emergency medical responder, (EMT) emergency medical technician. (AEMT) advanced EMT and paramedic

EMR

Basic emergency care and operations training in is focused on managing emergency scenes before ambulances arrive

EMT

Additional depth in training, basic emergency care, transportation. EMT’s mostly focus on stabilization of patience.

AEMT

Additional preparation above EMT including advanced, life support, and intravenous therapy, advanced airway management, and administration of certain emergency medications

Paramedic

They focus on advanced life, support, diagnostics and treatment. Interpretation of heart rhythms, advanced airway management and emergency pharmacology.

Overall class focus

Size up, amount of patient assessment, treatment, transport, ems as a career

AED

Automated external defibrillator

EMD

Emergency medical dispatch

MIH

Mobile, integrated healthcare, is the method of delivering healthcare that utilizes the pre-hospital spectrum of care resources

CQI

A quality management process that encourages team members at every level to assess standards

HIPAA

Health insurance, probability, and accountability act

EBM

EBM is focused on procedures that have proven useful and improving patient outcomes. Stands for evidence based medicine.

Infectious disease

Medical condition caused by the growth and spread of harmful organisms within the body

Communicable disease

A disease that can spread from one person or species to another

pathogen

Is a microorganism that is capable of causing disease

Contamination

The presence of foreign bodies in or on objects

Exposure

Contact with the blood at the body we fluids test you or airborne particles

PPE

Personal protective equipment

Foodborne transmission

Involves the contamination of food or water that can cause disease

Vector borne transmission

involves the spread of an infection by animals or insects.

OSHA

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Seven fire danger

Smoke oxygen deficiency temperatures, toxic gases, equipment, explosions, billing collapse

CISM

A process to help decrease PTSD