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Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)

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An emergency medical provider who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy and administration of certain medications.

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Advanced Life Support (ALS)

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Advanced Life saving procedures some of which are now being provided by AEMTs.

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Americans with Disabilities Act

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Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination.

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Automated External Defibrillator

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A device that detects treatable life threatening cardiac arrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient.

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Certification

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A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meating certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care.

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Continuous Quality Improvement

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A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS System

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Emergency Medical Dispatch

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A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and in providing callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.

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Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)

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the first trained person such as a police officer, fire fighter, or other rescuer, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.

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Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

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A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to sick and injured patients.

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Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

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An emergency medical provider who has training in basic emergency care skills, including automated external defibrillation, use of definitive airway adjunct, and assisting patients with certain medications.

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Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

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The legislation enacted in 1996 providing for criminal sanctions and for civil penalties for releasing a patient’s protected information in a way no authorized by the patient.

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Licensure

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The process whereby a state allows qualified people to perform a regulated act.

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Medical Control

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Physician instructions that are given directly by radio (online or direct) or indirectly by protocols or guidelines (offline or indirect) as authorized by the medical director of the service program.

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Medical Director

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The physician who authorizes or delegates to the provider the authority to perform health care in the field.

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National EMS Scope of Practice Model

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A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers.

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Paramedic

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An emergency medical provider who has extensive training in advanced life support, including intravenous therapy, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills.

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Primary Prevention

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Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring

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Primary Service Area

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The designed area in which an EMS service is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.

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Public Health

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Focused on examining the health needs of populations with the goal of preventing health problems.

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Public Safety Access Point

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A call center staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, fire fighting and ambulance services.

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Quality Control

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The responsibility of the medical director to ensure that appropriate medical care standards are met by AEMTs on each call.

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Reciprocity

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The recognition by one state of another state’s licensure, allowing a health care professional from another state practice in the new state.

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Secondary Practice

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Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent.