chapter 1 exam

BLS

Basic lifesaving interventions

ALS

Advanced procedures, such as drug administration

EMT

EMS professional trained in BLS interventions

AEMT

EMS professional trained in some ALS interventions

Paramedic

EMS professional trained in ALS interventions

Medical Control

Physician instruction to EMS team

CQI

A system of internal reviews and audits

EMS

A system to provide prehospital care to the sick and injured

Continuing education

A required amount of training to maintain skills

Quality control

Responsibility of the medical director to ensure that appropriate care is delivered by an EMT

Primary service area

Designated area in which the ems service is

Medical Director

The physician who authorizes the EMT to perform in the field.

American with Disabilities Act

Protects disabled individuals from discrimination

EMT

Control of external bleeeding, oxygen administration, and CPR are included in the "scope of practice" of the:

A.paramedic

B.EMT

C.AEMT

D.EMR

a

Which of the following is not true of medical control?

A.It is determined by the dispatcher

b. It may be written or "standing orders."

c. it may require online radio or phone consultation

d. it describes the care authorized by the medical director.

D

All of the following are components of continuous quality improvement EXCEPT:

a. periodic run reviews

b. remedial training

c. internal reviews and audits.

d. public seminars and meetings.

highest

The major goal of quality improvemtent is to ensure that the public recieves the _______ standard of care

HIPAA

Federal legislation concerning patient confidentiality is known as:

medical director

Who authorizes you, as an emt, to provide emergency care to this patient?

online medical control, offline medical control and protocol

To treat a patient you must use:

paramedic

what level of training would allow you to perform an electrocardiogram and advanced life support on a patient?

ALS

While you checked a patient's airway, breathing, and ciculation, your partner considered the benefits of requesting a(n) ________ ambulance to assit with patient care.

AED

While you performed CPR on a patient, your partner retrieved the ________ which will deliver an appropriate electrical shock.

F

EMT personnel are the highest qualified members of the prehospital care team. (T/F)

F

The EMT scope of practice may include the use of either an automated or manual defibrillator. (T/F)

F

The purpose of continuous quality improvement (CQI) is to support discipline of personnel. (T/F)

T

A professional appearance and manner by the EMT will help build a patent's confidence in the EMT's skills.

T

Essential keys to being a good EMT include compassion and commitment. (T/F)

t

As a health care professional and an extension of physician care, you are bound by patient confidentiality- even in your own home. (T/F)

continuous quality improvement

_____ _________ _______ is a circular system of continuous internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system.

medical director

Each EMS system has a physician _______ ________ who authorizes the EMT's in the service to provide medical care in the field.

Automated external

One of the most dramatic recent developments in prehospital emergency care is the use of an _______ _______ defibrillator.

services

The primary _______ area is the main area in which an EMS agency operates.

access point

a 911 dispatch center is called a public safety _______ _______, or PSAP

secondary

Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent are considered _______ prevention.

EMR

the first trained individual, such as a police officer, fire fighter, lifeguard or other resuer, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance

primary

efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring are known as _______ prevention.

ALS

Advanced lifesaving procedures.

public health

Focused on examing the health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing health problems.

paramedic

An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills.

quality control

The responsibility of the medical director to ensure that the appropriate medical care standards are met by emts on each call

Primary service area

The designated area in which the ems service is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.

medical director

the physician who authorizes or delegates to the emt the authority to provide medical care in the field

certification

A process in which a person an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care

ems

A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured

HIPAA

federal legislation passed in 1996. ITs main effect in EMS is inlimiting availability of patients health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy.

AEMT

An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications.

EMD

A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and in providing callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.

licensure

The process whereby a state allows individuals to perform a regulated act

americans with disabilities act

comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect individuals with disabilities against discrimination

CQI

a system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an ems system

AED

A device that detects treatable life threatening cardiac arrhymias and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient

EMT

An individual who has training in basic life support, including automated external defibrillation, use of a definitive airway adjunct, and assisting patients with certain medications