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Chap 1 Ems Systems Flashcards

1
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Certification

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Recognized by an institution by meeting certain standards

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Licensure

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State grants permission to practice a job/

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1966

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Accidental death and disability; the neglected disease of modern society. First set of standards.

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Responsible for continuing education

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Medical director

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CQI

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Used for improve my or a change in patient care.

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Standing orders

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Protocol or offline medical control

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How does carbon monoxide affect oxygenated blood

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Combined with hemoglobin in red blood cells 200 times more than oxygen does. Blocks hemoglobin to transport oxygen to body

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Communicable disease

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Spread from person to person

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Infectious disease

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Growth and spread of small harmful organisms in the body

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Vector-borne transmission

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Animal that spreads organism to person to person or place to place

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Expressed consent

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PT verbalized or expressed that they want you to provide care

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Informed consent

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You explain everything about care to them and then they give you consent

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Implied consent

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Legal principle that allows treatment of the PT was able to give you consent

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14
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Hazards present in structure fires (7)

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Smoke
Oxygen deficiency 
High temp
Toxic gas
Building collapse
Equipment
Explosions
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15
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Best way to reduce disease after exposure

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Proper hand washing

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16
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Time to clean ambulance

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At hospital after PT has been transferred

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17
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Stages of dying (5)

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Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
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18
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HIV and hep are traced back to what

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Careless handling of sharps

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19
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Disease offers no protection from reinfection

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Gonorrhea
Syphillis
HIV

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Acute stress

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Stress comes from the job you’re doing now

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Delayed stress

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Stressed after the event took place

22
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Cumulative stress

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Exposed to prolonged or excessive stress

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PTSD

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Reexperiencing certain events and overresponding

24
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General adaption syndrome

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Alarm response
Followed by stage of reaction
Then recovery or if stress is prolonged-exhaustion

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Quo’s pro quo

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Requesting sexual favors in return of promotions

26
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Minor to be treated as adult

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Married
Has a child
Lives completely on their own

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Negligence

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Failure to provide care that someone with similar training would’ve provided.

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Criteria that must be met for NEGLIGENCE

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DUTY
BREACH OF DUTY
DAMAGE
CAUSATION

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Putrefaction

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Second of body 40-96 hours after death

30
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Official transfer of PT

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Oral report is given to someone with equal or higher training as you

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When to notify medical control

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Incoming patient
Request advice
Receive orders
Advise hospital of special situation

32
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Ethnocentrism

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Viewing your cultural values more important than someone else’s

33
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Libel

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Written defamation

34
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Slander

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Spoken defamation

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Proximal

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Closer to trunk

36
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Distal

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Further from trunk-nearer to end of extremity

37
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Pathy

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Means disease

Example:nephropathy-kidney disease

38
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Res ipsa liquitor

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Held accountable even when the plaintiff is unable to clearly demonstrate how they were injured

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Negligence per se

A

Emt negligently violates statute on purpose

40
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Torts

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Civil wrong

41
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Assault

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Putting a person in fear of bodily harm

42
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Battery

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Unlawfully touching someone

43
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Ethics

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Right and wrong

44
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Morals

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What you knowingly should and shouldn’t do

45
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Ashen skin??

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Poor peripheral circulation

46
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Skin cyanotic??

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Blood not properly saturated with oxygen

47
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Base station radio

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Any radio hardware containing a transmitter and receiver in a fixed place

48
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Dedicated line or HOT LINE

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Used for specific point to point contact

49
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VHF

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30-300mhz

50
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UHF

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300-3,000mhz

51
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Repeater

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Base station that receives massages on one frequency and repeats them on a second frequency

Emt 1-5 (7 decks)

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