rules and responsibilities ✅✅asses the pt, provide emergency care, safely lift and move the pt,
serve as the pts advocate, maintain medical and legal standards
role of evidence based research in ems ✅✅focuses on research to provide clear evidence that
certain procedures medications and equipment improve the pts outcome
quality assurance ✅✅to ensure that the public receives the highest quality of prehospital care the
goals of quality improvement are to identify those aspects of the system that can be improved and
to implement plans and programs that will remedy any short comings
standard precautions ✅✅strict infection control measures based on the presumption that all
blood and body fluids are infectious
body substance isolation (BSI) ✅✅protecting yourself from disease transmission through
exposure to blood and other body fluids - now called Standard Precautions. hand washing is an
example of this
personal protective equipment (PPE) ✅✅equipment utilized for Standard Precautions; eye
protection, protective gloves, gowns, masks
mandated reports ✅✅abuse, shootings, infectious diseases, animal bites, crimes
scope of practice ✅✅actions and care that emts are legally allowed to perform by the state in
which they are providing emergency medical care
base station ✅✅serves as a dispatch and coordination area and ideally is in contact with all other
elements of the system
mobile radios ✅✅vehicle-mounted devices used to communicate within the EMS system