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EMT Emergency Care 14th Edition Module #1: Chapter 1-7 Study Guide Evidence- based techniques - Answer️️ -Techniques or practices that are supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy rather than merely by supposition and tradition. Medical direction - Answer️️ -Oversi...

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EMT Emergency Care 14th Edition
Module #1: Chapter 1-7 Study Guide

Evidence- based techniques - Answer✔️✔️-Techniques or practices that are supported

by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy rather than merely by supposition and

tradition.


Medical direction - Answer✔️✔️-Oversight of the patient care aspects of an ems system

by the medical director. Direction can be either off or online

Medical director - Answer✔️✔️-a physician who assumes ultimate responsibility for the

patient-care aspects of the EMS system

911 system - Answer✔️✔️-a system for telephone access to report emergencies. A

dispatcher takes the information and alerts EMS or the fire or police departments as

needed. Enhanced 911 has the additional capability of automatically identifying the

caller's phone number and location.

off-line medical direction - Answer✔️✔️-Standing orders issued by the Medical Director

that allow EMTs to give certain medications or perform certain procedures without

speaking to the Medical Director or another physician.

patient outcomes - Answer✔️✔️-the long-term survival of patients

peer revviewed - Answer✔️✔️-submitted to a professional journal and reviewed by

several of the researchers peers

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protocols - Answer✔️✔️-lists of steps, such as assessments and interventions, to be

taken in different situations. Protocols are developed by the Medical Director of an EMS

system

Quality Improvement - Answer✔️✔️-a process of continual self-review with the purpose of

identifying and correcting aspects of the system that require improvement

standing orders - Answer✔️✔️-policies or protocols issued by a medical director that

authorize emts and others to preform particular skills in certain situations.

Contamination - Answer✔️✔️-The introduction of dangerous chemicals, disease, or

infectious materials.

CISM or Critical incident stress management - Answer✔️✔️-A comprehensive system

that includes education and resources to both prevent stress and deal with stress

appropriately when it occurs.

decontamination - Answer✔️✔️-The removal or cleansing of dangerous chemicals and

other dangerous or infectious materials.

hazardous material incident - Answer✔️✔️-the release of a harmful substance into the

enviroment

Multiple-causality incident (MCI) - Answer✔️✔️-an emergency involving multiple patients

pathogens - Answer✔️✔️-the organisms that cause infection, such as viruses and

bacteria




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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - Answer✔️✔️-Equipment that protects the EMS

worker from infection and/or exposure to the dangers of rescue operations.

Standard Precautions - Answer✔️✔️-A strict form of infection control that is based on the

assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious.

stress - Answer✔️✔️-a state of physical and/or psychological arousal to a stimulus

resillience - Answer✔️✔️-toughness, an ability to recover quickly from difficult situations

bariatric - Answer✔️✔️-having to do with patients who are significantly overweight or

obese

body mechanics - Answer✔️✔️-the proper use of the body to facilitate lifting and moving

and prevent injury

direct carry - Answer✔️✔️-a method of transferring a patient from bed to stretcher, during

which two or more rescuers curl the patient to their chests, then reverse the process to

lower the patient to the stretcher

direct ground lift - Answer✔️✔️-A method of lifting and carrying a patient from ground

level to a stretcher in which two or more rescuers kneel, curl the patient to their chests,

stand, then reverse the process to lower the patient to the stretcher

draw-sheet method - Answer✔️✔️-a method of transferring a patient from bed to stretcher

by grasping and pulling the loosened bottom sheet of the bed




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