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- 3. the state or condition of having a license granted by official or legal authority to perform medical acts and procedures not permitted by persons without such a license.
- 8. director The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field.
- 9. prevention Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent.
- 10. medical technician A person who is trained and certified to provide basic life support and certain other noninvasive prehospital medical procedures.
- 11. EMT A person who is able to perform basic life support skills and limited advanced life support skills.
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- 1. A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care.
- 2. prevention Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
- 4. A person trained and certified to provide advanced life support.
- 5. medical responder The first trained professional, such as a police officer, firefighters, lifeguards, or other rescuer, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.
- 6. life support The use of specialized equipment such as cardiac monitors, defibrillators, intravenous fluids, drug infusion, and endotracheal intubation to stabilize a patients condition.
- 7. control Physician instructions that are given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidelines (off-line/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service program.