EMR CH1: EMS SYSTEMS
Across
- 1. Able to perform basic life support skills and limited advanced life support skills
- 6. Process of delivering an electric shock through a person's chest wall and heart to end lethal heart rythyms such as V-fib and to help establish normal heart contraction rhythms.
- 8. Trained and certified to provide basic life support and certain other noninvasive prehospital medical procedures.
- 9. A fire, police, or emergency medical services agency; a 911 center; or a telephone number used by one or all of the agencies to receive and dispatch requests for emergency care; also called a emergency response communications center
- 10. The process by which a person, institution, or program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain standards to ensure safe and ethical patient care.
Down
- 2. First medically trained person to arrive on the scene.
- 3. A hospital or medical clinic with adequate medical resources to provide continuing care to sick or injured patients who are transported after first aid treatment by emergency medical responders.
- 4. Emergency life-saving procedures performed without advanced emergency procedures to stabilize the condition of patients who have experienced sudden illness or injury.
- 5. Trained and certified to provide advanced life support
- 7. The use of specialized equipment (cardiac monitors/defibrillators) and specialized techniques (intravenous fluid administration/drug infusion/endotracheal intubation) to stabilize a patient