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| 6139759380 | Origin of EMS | A system created in the 17 90's by the French who would transport wounded soldiers off the field for medical treatment | 0 | |
| 6139759381 | Early development of EMS | Establishment of Clara Barton's Red Cross | 1 | |
| 6139759382 | Nonmilitary Ambulances | The appearance of ___ did not occur until the 1900's in major American cities | 2 | |
| 6139793010 | 1940's | Smaller communities did not develop ambulance systems until the ___ using hearses as transportation. | 3 | |
| 6139803158 | Battlefield Ambulance Corps | During World War I, many soldiers joined the ___ | 4 | |
| 6139805556 | Vietnam and Korean wars | It was during the ___ that many medical advances were made that could lead to advances in the civilian sector. | 5 | |
| 6139821694 | The National Highway Safety Act | In 1966, the ___ charged the Department of Transportation with the development of EMS standards and assisting the states with to upgrade their prehospital care. | 6 | |
| 6139838772 | National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians | This group was founded to establish professional standards of pre-hospital care. | 7 | |
| 6139844263 | National Emergency Medical Service Systems Act | In 1973, Congress passed the ___ as the cornerstone of a federal effort to implement and improve EMS systems across the United States. | 8 | |
| 6139859984 | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Technical Assistance Program (NHTSA) | The ___ is responsible for the establishment of an assessment program with a set of standards for EMS systems. | 9 | |
| 6139871158 | NHTSA Standards | -Regulation and Policy -Resource management -Human resources and training -Transportation -Facilities -Communications -Public information and education -Medical direction -Trauma Systems -Evaluation | 10 | |
| 6139890232 | Pre-hospital care | Any care given before the patient reaches the hospital | 11 | |
| 6139892256 | Hospital care | Any care given to the patient within a hospital setting. | 12 | |
| 6139897497 | Regulation and Policy | The NHTSA Standard that states that each state within the U.S. must have an EMS system in place enabling legislation, a lead EMS agency, a funding mechanism, regulations, policies, and procedures. | 13 | |
| 6139908468 | Resource Management | The NHTSA Standard that states that there must be a centralized coordination of resources so that all victims of trauma or medical emergencies have equal access to basic emergency care and transport by certified personnel, in a licensed and equipped ambulance, to an appropriate facility. | 14 | |
| 6139921778 | Human resources and training | The NHTSA Standard that states that at minimum, all those transporting prehospital personnel should be trained to the EMT level using National EMS Education Standards that are taught by qualified instructors. | 15 | |
| 6139934024 | Transportation | The NHTSA Standard that states that safe, reliable ambulance transportation is a critical component. Most patients can be effectively transported by ground ambulances. Other patients require rapid transportation, or transportation from remote areas by helicopter or airplane. | 16 | |
| 6139948238 | Facilities | The NHTSA Standard that states that the seriously ill or injured patient must be delivered in a timely manner to the closest appropriate facility. | 17 | |
| 6139954427 | Communications | The NHTSA Standard that states that there must be an effective communications system, beginning with the universal system access number (911), dispatch-to-ambulance, ambulance-to-ambulance, ambulance-to-hospital, and hospital-to-hospital communications. | 18 | |
| 6139970323 | Public information and education | The NHTSA Standard that states that EMS personnel may participate in efforts to educate the public about their role in the system, their ability to access the system, and prevention of injuries. | 19 | |
| 6139978598 | Medical Direction | The NHTSA Standard that states that each EMS system must have a physician as a Medical Director accountable for the activities of EMS personnel within that system. The Medical Director delegates medical practice to nonphysician providers and must be involved in all aspects of the patient-care system. | 20 | |
| 6139995557 | Trauma systems | The NHTSA Standard that states that each state, enabling legislation must exist to develop a trauma system including one or more trauma centers, triage, and transfer guidelines for trauma patients, rehabilitation programs, data collection, mandatory autopsies, and means for managing and ensuring the quality of the system. | 21 | |
| 6140012158 | Evaluation | The NHTSA Standard that states that each state must have a program for evaluating and improving the effectiveness of the EMS system, known as a quality improvement program, a quality assurance program, or total quality management. | 22 | |
| 6140040352 | 1. Patient 2. Citizen calls 911 3. Emergency Medical Dispatcher 4. Emergency Medical Responders 5. EMT's 6. Emergency Department Staff 7. Allied Health Staff | Components of the EMS system | 23 | |
| 6140066742 | 911 system | Most localities have a ___ for telephone access to report emergencies. | 24 | |
| 6140070616 | Enhanced 911 | The system that most communication centers have that possesses the capability to identify the caller's phone number and location. | 25 | |
| 6140083694 | EMD's | Specialized dispatchers that can offer instructions for CPR, artificial ventilation, bleeding control, and more. | 26 | |
| 6140096804 | Emergency Medical Responder, Emergency Medical Technician, Advanced Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic | Levels of EMS training | 27 | |
| 6140099685 | Emergency Medical Responder | Level of training designed for the person who is often first at the scene. (Firefighters, police officers, and industrial health professionals) | 28 | |
| 6140109378 | Emergency Medical Technician | Level of training at least qualified to provide basic-level medical and trauma care and transportation to a medical facility. | 29 | |
| 6140120519 | Advanced Emergency Medical Technician | Level of training that includes EMT basic qualifications in addition to advanced level care such as advanced airway devices, monitoring of blood-glucose levels, and administration of some medications. | 30 | |
| 6140131392 | Paramedic | Most advanced level of EMS training. Possesses the training beyond that of an EMT or AEMT | 31 | |
| 6140154448 | 1. Personal Safety 2. Safety of crew, patient, and bystanders 3. Patient assessment. 4. Patient care 5. Lifting and moving 6. Transport 7. Transfer of Care 8. Patient Advocacy | Roles and Responsibilities of an EMT | 32 | |
| 6140173961 | 1. Pleasant 2. Sincere 3. Cooperative 4. Resourceful 5. Self-starter 6. Emotionally stable 7. Able to lead 8. Neat and Clean 9. Of good moral character and respectful to others 10. In control of personal habits 11. Controlled in conversation and able to communicate properly 12. Able to listen to others 13. Nonjudgemental of others | Good personal traits of an EMT | 33 | |
| 6140184853 | National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians | Organization responsible for establishing and maintaining national standards for EMT's, providing registration for EMT's, AEMT's, and Paramedics | 34 | |
| 6140198916 | Quality Improvement | Continuous self-review with the purpose of identifying aspects of the system that require improvement. | 35 | |
| 6140210191 | 1. Preparing carefully written documentation 2. Becoming involved in the quality process 3. Obtaining feedback from patients and the hospital staff 4. Maintaining your equipment 5. Continuing your education | 36 | ||
| 6140214693 | Medical Director | A physician who assumes the ultimate responsibility for medical direction | 37 | |
| 6140218463 | Medical Direction | Oversight of patient-care aspects of the EMS system | 38 | |
| 6140223503 | Protocols | Lists of steps for intervention and assessment to be performed in different situations | 39 | |
| 6140227863 | Designated agent | An EMT at a basic or advanced level operating under the direction of a physician | 40 | |
| 6140234795 | Standing Orders | A policy developed by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certain situations | 41 | |
| 6140250247 | Off-line medical direction | Standing orders issued by the Medical Director that allow Emt's to give certain medications or perform certain procedures without speaking to the Medical Director or another physician | 42 | |
| 6140259668 | On-line medical direction | Orders from the on-duty physician given directly to an EMT in the field by radio or telephone | 43 | |
| 6140272207 | Patient outcomes | the long-term survival of patients | 44 | |
| 6140276871 | evidence-based | description of medical techniques or practices that are supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy, rather than merely on supposition and tradition. | 45 | |
| 6140291524 | Forming a hypothesis, reviewing literature, evaluating the evidence, adopting the practice if evidence supports it | Evidence-based process | 46 | |
| 6140295960 | Prospective versus retrospective, randomization, control groups, study group similarity. | Methods of reducing bias | 47 | |
| 6140299317 | Case studies, case-control studies, randomized controlled trials, systematic review, meta analysis. | Types of medical research | 48 |
