Emergency Care
12th Edition
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p. 16 - An EMT or other person
authorized by a Medical
Director to give medications
Designated and provide emergency care.
Agent Such authorization is an
extension of the Medical
Director's license to practice
medicine.
p. 16 - description of medical
techniques or practices that
Evidence- are supported by scientific
Based evidence of their safety and
efficacy, rather than merely on
supposition and tradition.
, p. 15 - Oversight of the patient-
Medical
care aspects of an EMS system
Direction
by the Medical Director
p. 15 - A physician who
Medical assumes ultimate responsibility
Director for the patient-care aspects of
the EMS system
p. 8 - A system for telephone
access to report emergencies.
911 System
A dispatcher takes the info and
alerts EMS/FD/PD as needed
Patient p. 16 - the long-term survival of
Outcomes patients
p. 15 - Lists of steps, such as
assessments and interventions,
Protocols to be taken in different
situations. Are developed by
the Medical Director.
p. 13 - A process of continuous
self-review with the purpose of
Quality
identifying and correcting
Improvement
aspects of the system that
require improvement.
p. 16 - A policy or protocol
issued by a Medical Director
Standing
that authorizes EMTs and
Orders
others to perform particular
skills in certain situations.
p. 8 - Has the capability of
automatically identifying the
Enhanced 911
caller's phone number and
location
, Standing orders issued by the
Medical Director that allow
Off-Line EMTs to give certain
Medical medications or perform certain
Direction procedures without speaking
to the Medical Director or
another physician.
On-Line Orders given directly by the
Medical on-duty physician to an EMT in
Direction the field by radio or telephone.
p. 25 - The introduction of
Contaminatio
dangerous chemicals, disease,
n
or infections materials.
Critical p. 39 - A comprehensive
Incident system that includes education
Stress and resources to both prevent
Management stress and to deal with stress
(CISM) appropriately when it occurs.
p. 42 - The removal or
cleansing of dangerous
Decontaminat
chemicals and other
ion
dangerous or infectious
materials
Hazardous p. 41 - The release of a harmful
Material substance into the
Incident environment