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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 |
| Advanced Life Support + | the highest level of EMS care, which uses invasive procedures and advanced monitoring |
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| BLS + | the lowest level of EMS care, which uses primarily less-invasive procedures |
| 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 |
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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. |
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| Defibrillation-Only First Response + | usually a police unit response to cardiac arrests to rapidly deliver a defibrillator |
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| EMS Dispatch + | an agency dispatching medical first response units and ambulances |
| EMS-Initiated Refusals + | EMS providers refuse to transport patient by ambulance |
| Emergency Helicopter Transport + | unscheduled transport by helicopter excluding hospital transfers |
| Emergency Medical Services + | 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Health Information Exchange + | electronic platform to share health information and mobilize resources |
| Hospital Diversion + | occurrence where ambulances avoid transport to a particular hospital. |
| 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 + | 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 |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians + | an organization which provides standardized tests used in the certification of emergency care providers; not used by all states for all levels of provider |
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| Offload + | process of legally transferring patient care responsibility from the ambulance crew to another care provider entity |
| Offload Delay + | a delay in the transfer of patient care responsibility from the ambulance crew to the receiving care provider entity |
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| 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. |
