68W Module 1 Study Guide | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version

68W Module 1 Study Guide | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version EMS standards were developed by who in 1996? - DOT The NREMT was founded in 1970 with the purpose of... - Establishing Professional Standards The physician who delegated medical practice to EMT - Medical Director The Evaluation and Improvement in an EMS system is known as.. - Quality Improvement System with the capability of identifying the location of the caller - enhanced 911 Your first responsibility as an EMT at any call.. - Personal safety One of your responsibilities as an EMT that deals with building rapport and understanding of patient's condition - Patient Advocacy When you pass information about the patient to hospital personnel, you are fulfilling the EMT responsibility of - Transfer of care Continuous self-review with the purpose of identifying aspects of the system that require improvement - quality improvement List of steps, such as assessments na interventions written by the Medical Direction - protocols Oversight of the patient care aspects of an EMS system by the Medical Director - medical direction A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMTs and others to perform particular skills in certain situations - standing orders Standing orders issued by the Medical Director that allow EMTs to I've certain medications or perform certain procedure without talking with the medical director - off-line medical directions Orders from the on-duty physician given directly to an EMT in the field by radio or telephone - on- line medical directions The long term survival of patients - patient outcomes Description of medical techniques or practices that are supported by scientific evidence or their safety and efficacy, rather than merely on supposition and tradition - evidence-baed The organisms that cause infection, such as viruses and bacteria - Pathogens Can be contracted by exposure to the patient's blood and sometimes other body fluids, especially when they come in contact with an open wound or sore on the EMT's hands, face, or other exposed parts including mucous membranes, such as those in the nose, mouth or eye - blood borne pathogens Are spreader by tiny droplets sprayed during breathing, coughing or sneezing - air borne pathogens a strict form of infection control that is baaed on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious - standard precautions Organization that sets guidelines about precautions again expose to blood borne pathogens is - OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Equipment that protects the EMS worker from exposure is - PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) The introduction of dangerous chemicals, disease or infectious materials - contamination Even if you were wearing gloves yo ushould - wash your hands A disease that damaged the liver - hepatitis Four communicable diseases of greatest concern to the EMT because they are potentially life treating - Hep B, Hep C, TB, AIDs A productive cough on a patient, especially in homeless shelters or crowded facilities, should be considered to be - TB Disease spread through respiratory droplets. Symptoms include fever, dry cough, and difficult breathing - SARS; Serve acute respiratory syndrome Protection against SARS for EMTs include frequent hand