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HFFES EMR - Ch. 1 & 2 (NREMR): Questions & Answers
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HFFES EMR - Ch. 1 & 2 (NREMR): Questions & AnswersAdvanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) Right Ans - A person
who is able to perform basic life support skills and limited advanced life
support skills.
Advanced Life Support (ALS) Right Ans - The use of specialized equipment
and specialized techniques to stabilize a patient’s condition
Appropriate medical facility Right Ans - A hospital or medical clinic with
adequate medical resources to provide continuing care to sick or injured
patients who are transported after field treatment by emergency medical
responders.
Basic Life Support (BLS) Right Ans - Emergency lifesaving procedures
performed without advanced emergency procedures to stabilize the
conditions of patients who have experienced sudden illness or injury.
Certification Right Ans - A process in which a person, an institution, or a
program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined
standards to provide safe and ethical care.
Defibrillation Right Ans - Process of delivering an electric shock through a
person's chest wall and heart for the purpose of ending lethal heart rhythms
such as ventricular fibrillation and to help establish normal heart contraction
rhythms.
Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) Right Ans - The first medically
trained person to arrive on the scene.
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Right Ans - A person who is trained
and certified to provide basic life support and certain other noninvasive
prehospital medical procedures.
Emergency Response Communications Center Right Ans - A fire, police, or
emergency medical services agency; a 9-1-1 center; or a seven digit telephone
number used by one or all of the emergency agencies to receive and dispatch
requests for emergency care; also called a public safety answering point.
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