EMT Emergency Care 14th Edition Module #1: Chapter 1-7 Study Guide

EMT Emergency Care 14th Edition Module #1: Chapter 1-7 Study Guide Evidence- based techniques - Answer️️ -Techniques or practices that are supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy rather than merely by supposition and tradition. Medical direction - Answer️️ -Oversight of the patient care aspects of an ems system by the medical director. Direction can be either off or online Medical director - Answer️️ -a physician who assumes ultimate responsibility for the patient-care aspects of the EMS system 911 system - Answer️️ -a system for telephone access to report emergencies. A dispatcher takes the information and alerts EMS or the fire or police departments as needed. Enhanced 911 has the additional capability of automatically identifying the caller's phone number and location. off-line medical direction - Answer️️ -Standing orders issued by the Medical Director that allow EMTs to give certain medications or perform certain procedures without speaking to the Medical Director or another physician. patient outcomes - Answer️️ -the long-term survival of patients peer revviewed - Answer️️ -submitted to a professional journal and reviewed by several of the researchers peers TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 2/26 protocols - Answer️️ -lists of steps, such as assessments and interventions, to be taken in different situations. Protocols are developed by the Medical Director of an EMS system Quality Improvement - Answer️️ -a process of continual self-review with the purpose of identifying and correcting aspects of the system that require improvement standing orders - Answer️️ -policies or protocols issued by a medical director that authorize emts and others to preform particular skills in certain situations. Contamination - Answer️️ -The introduction of dangerous chemicals, disease, or infectious materials. CISM or Critical incident stress management - Answer️️ -A comprehensive system that includes education and resources to both prevent stress and deal with stress appropriately when it occurs. decontamination - Answer️️ -The removal or cleansing of dangerous chemicals and other dangerous or infectious materials. hazardous material incident - Answer️️ -the release of a harmful substance into the enviroment Multiple-causality incident (MCI) - Answer️️ -an emergency involving multiple patients pathogens - Answer️️ -the organisms that cause infection, such as viruses and bacteria TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 3/26 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - Answer️️ -Equipment that protects the EMS worker from infection and/or exposure to the dangers of rescue operations. Standard Precautions - Answer️️ -A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious. stress - Answer️️ -a state of physical and/or psychological arousal to a stimulus resillience - Answer️️ -toughness, an ability to recover quickly from difficult situations bariatric - Answer️️ -having to do with patients who are significantly overweight or obese body mechanics - Answer️️ -the proper use of the body to facilitate lifting and moving and prevent injury direct carry - Answer️️ -a method of transferring a patient from bed to stretcher, during which two or more rescuers curl the patient to their chests, then reverse the process to lower the patient to the stretcher direct ground lift - Answer️️ -A method of lifting and carrying a patient from ground level to a stretcher in which two or more rescuers kneel, curl the patient to their chests, stand, then reverse the process to lower the patient to the stretcher draw-sheet method - Answer️️ -a method of transferring a patient from bed to stretcher by grasping and pulling the loosened bottom sheet of the bed TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 4/26 extremity lift - Answer️️ -A method of lifting and carrying a patient during which one rescuer slips hands under the patient's armpits and grasps the wrists, while another rescuer grasps the patient's knees. power grip - Answer️️ -gripping with as much hand surface as possible in contact with the object being lifted, all fingers bent at the same angle, and hands at least 10 inches apart power lift - Answer️️ -A lift from a squatting position with weight to be lifted close to the body, feet apart and flat on the ground, body weight on or just behind the balls of the feet, and back locked in. The upper body is raised before the hips. Also called the squat-lift position. Abandonment - Answer️️ -Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training. advance directives - Answer️️ -A legal document designed to indicate a person's wishes regarding care in case of a terminal illness or during the dying process ( a DNR order) assault - Answer️️ -placing a person in fear of bodily harm battery - Answer️️ -causing bodily harm to or restraining a person confidentiality - Answer️️ -The obligation not to reveal information obtained about a patient except to other health care professionals involved in the patient's care, or under TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 5/26 subpoena, or in a court of law, or when the patient has signed a release of confidentiality. consent - Answer️️ -permission from the patient for care or other action by the EMT crime scene - Answer️️ -The location where a crime has been committed or any place that evidence relating to a crime may be found. do not resuscitate (DNR) order - Answer️️ -a legal document, usually signed by the patient and their physician which states that the patient has a terminal illness and does not want to prolong through the resuscitative efforts duty to act - Answer️️ -an obligation to provide care to a patient ethical - Answer️️ -regarding a social system or social or professional expectations for applying principles of right and wrong expressed consent - Answer️️ -consent given