EMT FISDAP Operations Exam Review Part 800 - ✔NYS EMS protocol. Everything you must keep in the ambulance is included. Medical director - ✔The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field. Reciprocity - ✔Ability to transfer state to state as an EMT Scene Safety - ✔steps taken to ensure the safety and well -being of th e EMT, his partners, patients, and bystanders Proper body substance isolation - ✔PPE (gowns, gloves, protective masks) What do you do if the scene is not safe? - ✔Contact police Sharps Container - ✔A puncture -proof container designed specifically to saf ely dispose of needles, scalpels, and other sharp disposable medical instruments Handwashing - ✔Step 1: Wet Hands. Wet your hands and apply enough liquid soap to create a good lather. ... Step 2: Rub Palms Together. ... Step 3: Rub the Back of Hands. ... Step 4: Interlink Your Fingers. ... Step 5: Cup Your Fingers. ... Step 6: Clean the Thumbs. ... Step 7: Rub Palms with Your Fingers. Wellbeing of the EMT - ✔Recognizing stressors, taking up a healthy diet and exercise, coping with death and dying CISM - ✔Critical Incident Stress Management - A process that confronts the responses to critical incidents and defuses them, directing the emergency services personnel toward physical and emotional equilibrium. Evidence at a crime scene - ✔blood, DNA, fingerprin ts, shoeprint, hair Signs of Obvious Death - ✔Rigor Mortis, Dependent Lividity, Putrefication, Evidence of non-survivable injury Restraining a Patient - ✔-do not restrain in prone position -restrain of patient becomes dangerous to self or you -use humane restraints and do so in the supine position Unsafe scene procedures - ✔ Expressed Consent (actual consent) - ✔Type of consent given when patient verbally or otherwise acknowledge that he o r she wants you to provide care or transport. Implied consent - ✔Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment. Informed consent includes - ✔Risks, benef its, complications, alternatives DNR - ✔do not resuscitate order MOLST - ✔medical orders for life sustaining treatment - a medical order form that tells others the patient's medical orders for life -sustaining treatment Informed refusal - ✔Occurs when the patient refuses treatment after he/she has been fully educated regarding the consequences of not receiving the treatment. RMA - ✔The refusal of medical assistance, or RMA, ensures the continuum of care that ambulance squads have a responsibility towards. In a typical emergency call, the ambulance service will assess and transport the patient to an appropriate facility. Standing orders - ✔a policy or protocol issued by a Medical Director that authorizes EMTs and others to perform particular skills in cert ain situations Medical control - ✔Physician instructions that are given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidelines (off -line/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service program. Libel - ✔A wri tten defamation of a person's character, reputation, business, or property rights. HIPPA - ✔Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ensures the privacy of all patients START triage - ✔A patient sorting process that stands for Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment and uses a limited assessment of the patient's ability to walk, respiratory status, hemodynamic status, and neurologic status. scene size -up - ✔A step within the p atient assessment process that involves a quick assessment of the scene and the surroundings to provide information about scene
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