Volume 2 Chapter 5

The process of exchanging information between individuals

• Sender has an idea/message
• Sender encodes message
• Sender sends message
• Receiver receives message
• Receiver decodes message
• Receiver gives feedback to sender

Related to the meaning of words

Radio communications system using codes that begin with the word ten

A range of frequencies

Number of times the radio wave oscillates per second

300 mhz-3000 mhz

The written record of an EMS response

• Detection and citizen access
• Automatic collision notification
• Call taking and emergency response
• Prearrival instructions
• Call coordination and incident recording
• Discussion with medical direction
• Transfer communications
• Back in service

Any agency that takes emergency calls from citizens in a given region and dispatches the emergency resources necessary to respond to individual call for help

Data collection and transmission system that can automatically contact a national call center or local public safety answering point and transmit specific crash data

The person who manages an EMS system's response and readiness

System that uses medically approved questions and predetermined guidelines to determing appropriate level of response

Dispatcher's instructions to caller for approprate emergency measures

Communications system that transmits and receives on the same frequency

Communications system that allows simultaneous two-way communications by using two frequencies for each channel

Duplex system that can transmit voice and data simultaneously

Communications system that pools all frequencies and routes transmissions to the next available frequency

Data or sounds translated to a digital code for transmission

Vehicle mounted computer keyboard and display

Telephone System divided into regions, or cells, that are served by radio base stations

Device for electrically transmitting and receiving printed information

Computer on which you enter data by touching areas of the display screen

To orally defame another person

To defame another person in writing

Predetermined written guidelines for patient care

Immediately repeating each transmission received during radio communications

Agency that controls all nongovernmental communications in the US

30 mhz-300 mhz