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Emergency care - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the prehospital assessment and basic
care for the sick or injured patient; during care the physical and emotional
needs of the patient are considered and attended to.
Emergency medical services system - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the chain of human
resources and services linked together to provide continuous emergency
care from the onset of care at the prehospital scene, during transport, and
on arrival at the medical facility.
, Medical director - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a physician who assumes the ultimate
responsibility for medical oversight of the patient care aspects of the EMS
system.
Medical direction - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the medical oversight provided for an
EMS system or one of its components by a licensed physician.
Scope of practice model - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a national model that defines the
scope of care for all levels of EMS training.
National EMS Education Standards - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the education and
training standards developed by the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration for all levels of EMS training.
Emergency medical Responder - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a member of the EMS
system who has been trained to render first aid care for a patient and to
help EMTs at the emergency scene.
Emergency medical technician - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a member of the EMS
system whose training emphasizes assessment, care, and transportation of
the ill or injured patient.