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A system of resources and personnel necessary to provide immediate care to ill and injured patients?
Emergency medical services system
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Most of the growth and technical development prehospital emergency care emerged from what?
War
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What is the leading cause of trauma deaths?
Motor vehicle crashes
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The intersection of hospital and prehospital care?
Emergency Department
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Trained individuals who provides initial life-sustaining care (AED/CPR) with minimal equipment
Emergency medical responder
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The accountability of field care by a physician through the use of radio or telephone communications.
Online medical direction
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Responsible for prioritizing calls, communicating with EMS providers, and giving phone instructions to bystanders
Dispatch
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Usually the first medical person to see the patient
EMT
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Active participation of physicians overseeing medical care in the EMS System
Medical Direction
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The Cival War is noted for the first use in the United States of what?
Mobile Surgical Units
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The Korean War saw the first use of what?
Helicopters to provide rapid transport of casualities
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Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago is credited with the first use of what?
Motorized ambulances
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Trauma is the leading cause of death in the age group of?
1 to 45
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The National Academy of Sciences published a landmark study called "Accidental Death and Disability: the Neglected Disease of Modern Society" in:
1966
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This component of the EMSS provides stabilizing measures to prehospital patients before transfer to the operating room or critical care unit.
Emergency Department
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This person is often the first to help the patient
Lay rescuer
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Hospital designation and part of EMSS that uses capabilities in different areas of care such as trauma, burns, neonatology, and replantation
Specialty referral center
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Part of EMSS bring to scene the first medical personnel that patients are likely to encounter. May use either basic or advanced life skills to support and stabilize a critical patient
Emergency medical responders
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Primary roles of the EMT in most systems
Patient assessment, patient care, and transfer of patient to hospital staff
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"Acting requisite to the body of knowledge which defines the service and abilities of the professional...according to the oath of the profession. Historically first applied to religious vows..."
Professionalism
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Person who interprets the EKG, performs invasive airway skills, and has a more broadly based knowledge of pharmacology best describes who?
EMT-Paramedic
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Provides a system on internal and external reviews and provides immunity from liability for the EMT
Quality Improvement programs.
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Running reviews, audits, and gathering feedback from patients and hospital staff are components of:
The quality improvement process
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Online medical directions means:
Speaking directly with a physician for advice, by telephone or radio from the patient's side
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Offline medical direction is:
Standing orders and written protocols
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The first link in the American Heart Association's "chain of survival" is:
9-1-1
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Six methods the EMT may use as part of his or her role in quality improvement:
- 1. review hospital documentation to ensure accuracy
- 2. review ambulance runs to determine the type and quality of care
- 3. gathering feedback from patients and hospital personnel
- 4. providing continuing education
- 5. preventative maintenance on equipment and vehicles
- 6. maintaining personal skills
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Leader for hospital and prehospital pesonnel
physician
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What is Triage?
Sorting according to medical need
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What is assessment?
A systematic collection and analysis of information obtained through examination
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Extrication
Process by which entrapped patients are rescued
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System of reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system
Quality Improvement
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HEPA Mask
Type of mask worn when treating a patient with suspected TB
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