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| EMS (Emergency medical services) |
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| A team of health care professionals who are responsibe for patients and providing prehospital emergency care and trasportation to the sick and injured |
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| EMT (Emergency medical technicians) |
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| Individuals who provide the emergency care in the field and must be state-licensed or certified |
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| Has training in the basic emergency care skills, including automated external defibrillation, use of definitive airway adjuncts, and assisting patients with certain medications |
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| Has advanced traning in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy and cardiac monitoring |
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| Has extensive training in advanced life support, including IV therapy, Pharmacolgy, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills |
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| EMT-B TRAINING: Life-Threatening or potentially Life-Threatening |
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| Size up the scene and situation, Ensure that the scene is safe, Perform an initial assessment of the patient, Obtain a history of this episode and a pertinent past medical history, Identify life-threatening injuies or conditions, Establish and maintain an open airway, Provide adequate ventilation, Manage conditions that prevent proper ventilation, Provide high-flow supplemental oxygen, Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), Perform automated or semiautomated externa. defibrillation (AED), Control external bleeding, Recognize and treat shock, Care for patients in an acute life-threatening medical emergency, Assist patients in taking certain medications that they carry and taht their physician has pre-scribed for an acute episode, Identify and ra[idly prepare, or package patients (by positioning,covering and securing them) for rapid initiation of transport when necessary |
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| Training: Not Life-Threatening |
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| Identify patients for whom spinal precautions should be taken and immobilize them properly, Dress and bandage wounds, Splint injured extremities, Care for burns, Care for cases of poisoning, Deliver a baby, Asses and care for a newborn, Manage patients with behavioral or psychological problems, Cope with the psychological stresses on patients, families, your fellow EMT-Bs, and yourself |
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| Training: The ability to provide emergency care |
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| Understanding the role and responsibilites of the EMT-B, Following your service's protocols and orders from medical direction, Understanding ethical and medicolegal problems, Emergency vehicle and defensive driving, Using equipment carried on the ambulance, Checking and stocking the ambulance, Communication with patients and others at the scene, Using the radio and communication with the dispatcher, Giving a precise patient radio report and obtaining direct medical direction, Giving a full verbal report when transferring the patients's care at the hospital, Preparing proper documentation and completing the patient care report, Working with other responders at a crash scene, Cooperating with operations at special resue, mass-casualty, and hazardous materials incidents |
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| The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
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| Protects individuals who have a disability from being denied access to programs and services that are provided by state or local goverments and prohibits employers from failing to provide full and equal employment to the disabled. |
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| Law Enforcement officers, Fire Fighters, Park Rangers, Ski Patrollers, or other organized rescuers who often arrive at the scene before teh ambulance and EMTs. |
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| The addressof the telephone from which the call is made is displayed on a screen |
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| Primary Service Area (PSA) |
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| Each EMS service operates in a designated PSA in which it is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and the transportation of the sick and injured tot he hospital |
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| Each EMS system has a physician who authorizes the EMTs in the service to provide medical care in the field |
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| Is either offline (indirect) or online (direct) as authorized by the medical director. Standing orders are a type of indirect and a physician who can be reached by radio or telephone for medical control during a call is direct |
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| Ensuring that all staff members who are involved in caring for patients meet appropriate medical care standards on each call |
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| Continuous Quality improvement (CQI) |
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| A circular system of continuous internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS call. |
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| The Ambulance: Before going on Duty |
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| Check all the equipment and supplies and communication equipment that the ambulance carries and make sure that it is fully fueled,and it has sufficient oil and other key fluids and that the tires are in good condition and properly inflated |
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| EMS systems include specialty centers that focus on specific types of care (trauma, burns, poison, or psychiatric conditions) or specific types of patients (children) |
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| This may include transferring patients to and from hopitals, skilled nursing facilities, board and care homes, or even their residence |
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| Makeing sure that the patient care is given ahigh priority without endangering your own safety or the safety of others, maintaining a professional appearence and manner at all times, must be nonjudgmental and overcome your instincts to react poorly to such behavior, Every patient regardless of his or her attitude is entitled to compassion, respect and teh best care that you can provide, be careful not to gossip about calls and patients with others |
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| The Key to being a good EMT |
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| providing high-quality care is your commitment to continual learning and ever-increasing knowledge and skills |
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| Presumptive Signs of Death |
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| Unresponsiveness to painful stimuli, Lack of a pulse or heartbeat, Absence of breath sounds, No deep tendon or corneal reflexes, Absence fo eye movement, No systolic blood pressure, Profound cyanosis, Lowered or decreased body temperature |
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| Definitive Signs of Death |
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| Obvious mortal damage, Dependent lividity, Rigor Mortis, Putrefaction |
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| Dead on Arrival, Death without previous medical care or when the physician is unable to state teh cause of death, Suicide, Violent Death, Poisoning known or suspected, Death resulting from accidents, Suspicion of a criminal act, |
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| Denial, Anger or hostility, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance |
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| Initial Care of the Dying, Critically or Injured Patient |
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| Anxiety, Pain and Fear, Anger and Hostility, Depression, Dependency, Guilt, Mental Health Problems, Receiving Unrelated bad news |
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| Stressful Situations for everyone involved |
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| Mass-casualty scenes, Serious automobile crashes, excavation cave-ins, house fires, infant and child trauma, Amputations, Abuse of an infant/child/spouse/elderly person, and death of a coworker or other public safety personnel. |
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| How a patient reacts to injury or illness may be influenced by certain personality traits such as |
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| Socioeconomic background, Fear of medical personnel, Alcohol or substance abuse, History of chronic disease, Mental disorders, Reaction to medication, Age, Nutritional status, Feelings of guilt |
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| If loved one has been killed or criically injured you should what? |
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| Wait if possible, until clerge or emergency department staff can give the patient the news |
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| The Three stage's of response is referred to as what? |
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| General adaptation syndrome |
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| Shift work, long hours or the frustration of losing a patient |
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| The Physical Manisfestations of Postive and Negative stress |
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| Increased respirations and heart rate, Increased blood pressure, Dilated venous vessels near the skin surface (cause cool, clammy skin), Dilated pupils, Tensed muscles, Increased blood glucose levels, Perspiration, Decreased blood flow to the gastrointestinal tract, Fatigue, Changes in appetie, headaches, Insomnia or hypersomnia, irritablility, inability to concentrate |
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| Cumulative stress (lots of little stressful things add up into a big stressful situation) they are a result in to what is referred to as critical incident stress. What events can trigger this type of stress? |
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| Mass-casualty incidents, Serious injury or traumatic death of a child, Crash with injuies caused by an emergency services providerwhile responding to or form a call, Death or serious injury of a coworker in the line of duty. |
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| Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
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| Develops after a person has experienced a psychologically distressing event, sometime referred to as the vietnam disease |
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| Critical Incedent Stress Management (CISM) |
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| A process developed to address stress from PTSD. Its a debriefing for those who were on scene, The most common form of CISM is peer defusing when a group informally discusses events that they experienced together |
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| The body's 3 sources of fuel are: |
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| Carbohydrates, fat and protein |
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| A condition of chronic fatigue and frustration taht results from mounting stress over time. To avoid burnout you need to be in good physical and mental health |
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| Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) |
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| A program in which severely stressful job-related incidents are discussed, It was designed to accelerate the normal recovery process following a critical incident |
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| A fundamental tool of the EMT |
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| The way an infectous agent is spread |
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| Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) |
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| Develops and publishes guidelines concering reducing risk in the workplace |
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| Developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for health care workers to use in treating patients |
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| The exposure or transmission of a communicable disease from one person to another by physical touching |
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| Contact with blood, body fluids, tissues, or airborned droplets by direct or indirect contact |
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| Exposure or tranmission of a disease from on perosn to another by contact with a contaminated object. EX. common colds are probaly spread this way |
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| Body Substance Isolation (BSI) |
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| BSI is the preferred infection control concept for fire and EMS personnel. designed to treat all body fluids as being infectious. Best way to prevent disease's or infections is wash your hands. BSI includes the following: Proper Handwashing, Gloves and Eye Protection, Gowns and Masks, Masks, Respirators, and Barrier Devices, Proper Disposal of Sharps, |
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| Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) |
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| Vinyl and latex gloves, Heavy-duty gloves for cleaning, Protective eyewear, Masks (including HEPA respirator), cover gowns, Devices for respiratory assistance |
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| Exposure Control Plan (ECP) |
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| Is an inflammation (and often Infection) of the liver. It cause fever, loss of appetite, jaundice, and fatigue |
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| Sexually transmitted disease, or contact with the patients blood |
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| A person (or animal) in whom an infectious organism has taken up permanent residence and who may or may not cause any active disease |
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| Transmitted orally through oral or fecal contamintion. Generally you must eat or drink something that is contaminated with the virus. |
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| The presence of an infectious organism on or in an object. |
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| The strength or ability of a pathogen to produce disease. |
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| Inflammation of the meningeal coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Patients with meningitis will have symptoms such as fever, headache, stiff neck and altered mental status. It is highly contagious. Patients often have red blotches on their skin |
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| A chronic bacterial disease that usually strikes the lungs. Patients who are effected with Tuberculosis or well most of the time |
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| Commonly thought of as a sexually transmitted disease it is also a bloodborne disease. Also a small risk through needle stick |
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| An airborne disease caused by bacteria that mostly affects children younger than 6 years. Signs and symptoms include fever and a whoop sound. |
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| The individual in the departmetn who is charged with the responsibility of managing exposures and infecton control issues. |
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En route to the scene make sure all equipment is out and available.
Upon Arrival make sure the scene is safe to enter then do a quick visual assissment of the patient, noting whether any blood is present.
Select the proper PPE according to the tasks you are likely to perform
Change gloves and wash hands between patients; do not unnecessarily delay treatment for use of PPE thereby potentially putting patients at risk
Limit the number of people who are invoved in patient care if there are multiple injuries and a substantail amount of blood at the scene
If you or you partner are exposed while providing care try to relieve one another as soon as possible so that you can seek care and notify the designated officer and report the incident |
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| DOT's Emergency Response Guidebook |
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| an important resource. It list most hazardous materials and the proper procedures for scene control and emergency care of patients |
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| The 5 common hazards in fire |
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| Smoke, Oxygen deficiency, High ambient temperatures, Toxic gases, Building collapse |
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| The tactical use of an impenetrable barrier to sonceal EMS personnel and protect themfrom projectiles such as bullets etc. etc. |
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| Blood Setting to teh lowest point of the body causeing discolration of the skin |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| The body's thress stage response to stress. First, stress causes the body to trigger an alarm response, followed by a stage of reaction and resistance , and then recovery or if the stress is prolonged exhaustion |
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| The abnormal invasion of a host or host tissues by organisms such as bacteia, viruses, or parasites, with or without signs or symtoms of disease |
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| Decomposition of body tissues |
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| Stiffening of the body, is a definitive sign of death |
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