Category:Term
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| ACS Trauma Levels | a scheme to classify hospitals by the availability of trauma-related resources defined by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma |
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| Advanced Life Support | ALS | the highest level of EMS care which uses invasive procedures and advanced monitoring |
Scope of Practice | ILS BLS |
| BLS | BLS | the lowest level of EMS care which uses primarily less-invasive procedures |
Scope of Practice | ILS Advanced Life Support |
| Basic 9-1-1 | describes a system where emergency services can be activated by calling the three digit telephone number 9-1-1; no location data is provided to the station receiving the call | 9-1-1 | Wireless E9-1-1 E9-1-1 |
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| Cardiac Catheterization | the insertion of a catheter into a heart chamber or blood vessel of the heart. | |||
| Community Paramedicine | the concept of having special programs to prevent emergencies and unnecessary emergency calls and more appropriately manage non-emergencies. | Community Paramedicine Document List | ||
| Defibrillation-Only First Response | usually a police unit response to cardiac arrests to rapidly deliver a defibrillator | |||
| EMS Dispatch | an agency dispatching medical first response units and ambulances | |||
| EMS-Initiated Refusals | EMS providers refuse to transport patient by ambulance | Transport Decisions | ||
| Emergency Helicopter Transport | unscheduled transport by helicopter excluding hospital transfers | |||
| Emergency Medical Services | EMS | the provision of medical care and/or transportation services to victims where they are stricken with illness or injury | ||
| Emergency Transport | unscheduled transport of a patient excluding hospital transfers | |||
| Enhanced 9-1-1 | 911 system where the calling telephone number and address are transmitted to the dispatch center. | 9-1-1 communications | ||
| First Response | response by non-transporting unit for the purpose of initiating care more quickly than a transporting unit (e.g. ambulance) can get to the scene of the emergency | |||
| Health Information Exchange | HIE | electronic platform to share health information and mobilize resources | ||
| Hospital Diversion | occurrence where ambulances avoid transport to a particular hospital. | Offload Delay Policies | Bypass Hospital Diversion |
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| Hot Spotting | or facilities in order to intervene and provide more appropriate resources geographical locations the practice of targeting frequent EMS users |
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| ILS | ILS | a level of EMS provider with a scope of practice somewhere between "ALS" and "BLS " generally able to use some medications and invasive procedures but fewer of each than the "ALS" level |
Scope of Practice | ALS BLS |
| Independent Municipally Based EMS | An Independent Municipally Based EMS agency is a government administrated EMS agency that is not integrated with a fire or police department. | |||
| Kelly Schedule | A Kelly shift schedule uses three personnel shifts that rotate to provide coverage twenty four hours a day seven days a week |
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| Medical Direction | management of EMS by a physician | |||
| National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians | NREMT | an organization which provides standardized tests used in the certification of emergency care providers; not used by all states for all levels of provider | ||
| Offload | process of legally transferring patient care responsibility from the ambulance crew to another care provider entity | Offload Delay/Offload Delay Policies | Offload Delay | |
| Offload Delay | OLD | a delay in the transfer of patient care responsibility from the ambulance crew to the receiving care provider entity | Offload Delay Policies | Turnaround Offload Hospital Diversion |
| Post | anywhere an ambulance is stationed; can be either a purpose-built station building or a location in the community such as an intersection parking lot etc. |
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| Primary PSAP | Initially handles 9-1-1 calls and transfers them if necessary | Dispatch | Secondary PSAP Public Safety Answering Point |
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| Public Safety Answering Point | a call center for emergency services Public Safety Answering Point |
Dispatch | Secondary PSAP Primary PSAP |
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| Scope of Practice | Scope | processes and actions that are permitted for a certified or licensed individual Procedures |
Decision Making Capacity Roles and Responsibilities |
Extended Scope of Practice Advanced Scope of Practice Protocols |
| Secondary PSAP | Handles calls transfered from a primary PSAP | Dispatch | Primary PSAP Public Safety Answering Point |
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| Selective First Response | dispatch of first responders only to certain types of calls | |||
| Stroke Center | a hospital capable of caring for patients with suspected and actual stroke; generally used to mean a hospital certified as such by The Joint Commission | |||
| Trauma center | a hospital capable of caring for severely injured patients; generally used to mean a hospital certified as such by the American College of Surgeons | ACS Trauma Levels | ||
| Volunteer | The practice of a person working without payment for their time and services. | Human Resources | None | |
| Vulnerability Index | VI | a tool to identify individuals in the homeless population who are at the highest risk of dying in the streets | Hot Spotting | |
| Walk-In | fire station or hospital to request medical attention refers to a patient who self-transports to an EMS station |
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| Wireless E9-1-1 | PSAP receives telephone number of cell phone and some PSAPs receive location information |
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