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Emergency Medical Technician
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Emergency Medical Technician Emergency Medical Technicians, are Basic Life Support Personnel with training in early triage, BCLS, patient packaging/transport and advanced first aid. EMT's are traditionally found in an ambulance. Although Paramedics are technically EMT's (EMT-P versus EMT-B) most people refer to them separately.
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Emergency
Sudden occurrence demanding immediate remedy. Symptoms that would constitute a medical emergency include: 1.Difficulty breathing. Changes in skin color; 2.Chest pain, radiating from the breast bone or high in the abdomen to the jaw, neck, shoulder blade(s) or arms. Impending feelings of "doom"; 3.Mental status changes or loss of consciousness. Abrupt onset of a severe headache accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting, or feelings of drowsiness; 4.Fever over 105 any age. Fever over 100,4 in children less than 3 months of age; 5.Bleeding continues after 10 minutes of direct pressure.
Medical
Pertaining to Medicine.
Triage
A process of separating out sick or injured people based on their need for medical treatment. In a hospital, a triage area is usually part of the emergency room, where staff decide which patients get treated first.
Ambulance
"Although you are undoubtedly familiar with the sound of the siren and the sight of the flashing lights of the ambulance, you may not necessarily know that the ambulance began as a walking hospital. The word ""ambulance"" indeed started off as a walking hospital, ""un h“pital ambulant"" in French, meaning literally ""a walking hospital."" The ""h“pital ambulant"" was devised during the campaigns of Napoleon to bring medical aid directly to his troops in the field. The original ""h“pital ambulant"" was a mobile unit designed to carry dressings and drugs to the wounded and evacuate the injured from the line of battle. The British, knowing a good idea when they saw it, came up with their own version of the ""h“pital ambulant."" But they economized by dropping the ""h“pital"" and corrupted ""ambulant"" to ""ambulance."" The French, of course, have for many years railed against the incursions of Anglo-Saxon words into the pure precincts of the French language. Nonetheless, they rejected their own ""h“pital ambulant"" and embraced the English ""ambulance."" So, in France today you can no longer see a hospital walking but ""ambulances"" are very much in evidence. "
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Emergency
Sudden occurrence demanding immediate remedy. Symptoms that would constitute a medical emergency include: 1.Difficulty breathing. Changes in skin color; 2.Chest pain, radiating from the breast bone or high in the abdomen to the jaw, neck, shoulder blade(s) or arms. Impending feelings of "doom"; 3.Mental status changes or loss of consciousness. Abrupt onset of a severe headache accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting, or feelings of drowsiness; 4.Fever over 105 any age. Fever over 100,4 in children less than 3 months of age; 5.Bleeding continues after 10 minutes of direct pressure.
Emergency contraception
The prevention of pregnancy after unprotected vaginal intercourse. Emergency contraception may use drugs related to the female hormones estrogen and progesterone. These "morning-after pill" are similar to birth control pills but generally contain higher hormone doses. Another form of emergency contraception uses an intrauterine device (IUD) inserted by a physician within 5 days after intercourse. Emergency contraception is also known as emergency birth control; emergency postcoital contraception; and postcoital contraception.
Emergency department
The department of a hospital responsible for the provision of medical and surgical care to patients arriving at the hospital in need of immediate care. Emergency department personnel may also respond to certain situations within the hospital such cardiac arrests. The emergency department is also called the emergency room or ER.
Emergency Medical Identification
Cards, bracelets, or necklaces with a written message used by people with diabetes or other medical problems to alert others in case of a medical emergency such as coma. |See the list of companies that sell Medical Identification Products.
Emergency Medical Services
This is comprised of all the medical out-of-hospital services designed to provide emergency medical care. This normally consists of Rescue teams, First Responders, EMT's, Paramedics and Air-Evacuation personnel.
Emergency physician
A physician focused on the immediate decision making and action necessary to prevent death or any further disability both in the prehospital setting by directing emergency medical technicians and in the emergency department. The emergency physician provides immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition of a generally diversified population of adult and pediatric patients in response to acute illness and injury.
Emerging infectious disease
An infectious disease that has newly appeared in a population or that has been known for some time but is rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range.
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Extinction
The weakening of a reinforced operant response as a result of ceasing reinforcement. See also operant conditioning. Also, the elimination of a conditioned response by repeated presentations of a conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus. See also respondent conditioning.
Extraversion
A state in which attention and energies are largely directed outward from the self as opposed to inward toward the self, as in introversion.
Expiatory paraphilia
One of a group of paraphilias characterized by triumph wrested developmentally from sexuoerotic tragedy by means of a strategy that incorporates sinful lust into the lovemap on the condition that it requires reparation or atonement by way of penance and sacrifice, since it irrevocably defiles saintly love.
Eligibilic paraphilia
One of a group of paraphilias characterized by triumph wrested developmentally from sexuoerotic tragedy by means of a strategy that incorporates lust into the lovemap on the condition that the partner be, like a pagan infidel, unqualified or ineligible to be a saint defiled.
Emergency Medical Services
This is comprised of all the medical out-of-hospital services designed to provide emergency medical care. This normally consists of Rescue teams, First Responders, EMT's, Paramedics and Air-Evacuation personnel.
Emergency Medical Technician
EMS
See Emergency Medical Services.
EMT
See Emergency Medical Technician.
Endotracheal tube
A tube which is inserted in the airway, by ACLS personnel, to provide a secure airway. This is the definitive airway control technique.
ET Tube
See Endotracheal Tube.
Endometrial ablation
Removal of the lining of the womb. Removing the uterine lining decreases menstrual flow or stops it completely. Ablation means removal or excision, usually surgically. The word comes from the Latin ablatum meaning to carry away.
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Emergency
Sudden occurrence demanding immediate remedy. Symptoms that would constitute a medical emergency include: 1.Difficulty breathing. Changes in skin color; 2.Chest pain, radiating from the breast bone or high in the abdomen to the jaw, neck, shoulder blade(s) or arms. Impending feelings of "doom"; 3.Mental status changes or loss of consciousness. Abrupt onset of a severe headache accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting, or feelings of drowsiness; 4.Fever over 105 any age. Fever over 100,4 in children less than 3 months of age; 5.Bleeding continues after 10 minutes of direct pressure.
Medical
Pertaining to Medicine.
Triage
A process of separating out sick or injured people based on their need for medical treatment. In a hospital, a triage area is usually part of the emergency room, where staff decide which patients get treated first.
Ambulance
"Although you are undoubtedly familiar with the sound of the siren and the sight of the flashing lights of the ambulance, you may not necessarily know that the ambulance began as a walking hospital. The word ""ambulance"" indeed started off as a walking hospital, ""un h“pital ambulant"" in French, meaning literally ""a walking hospital."" The ""h“pital ambulant"" was devised during the campaigns of Napoleon to bring medical aid directly to his troops in the field. The original ""h“pital ambulant"" was a mobile unit designed to carry dressings and drugs to the wounded and evacuate the injured from the line of battle. The British, knowing a good idea when they saw it, came up with their own version of the ""h“pital ambulant."" But they economized by dropping the ""h“pital"" and corrupted ""ambulant"" to ""ambulance."" The French, of course, have for many years railed against the incursions of Anglo-Saxon words into the pure precincts of the French language. Nonetheless, they rejected their own ""h“pital ambulant"" and embraced the English ""ambulance."" So, in France today you can no longer see a hospital walking but ""ambulances"" are very much in evidence. "
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Emergency
Sudden occurrence demanding immediate remedy. Symptoms that would constitute a medical emergency include: 1.Difficulty breathing. Changes in skin color; 2.Chest pain, radiating from the breast bone or high in the abdomen to the jaw, neck, shoulder blade(s) or arms. Impending feelings of "doom"; 3.Mental status changes or loss of consciousness. Abrupt onset of a severe headache accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting, or feelings of drowsiness; 4.Fever over 105 any age. Fever over 100,4 in children less than 3 months of age; 5.Bleeding continues after 10 minutes of direct pressure.
Emergency contraception
The prevention of pregnancy after unprotected vaginal intercourse. Emergency contraception may use drugs related to the female hormones estrogen and progesterone. These "morning-after pill" are similar to birth control pills but generally contain higher hormone doses. Another form of emergency contraception uses an intrauterine device (IUD) inserted by a physician within 5 days after intercourse. Emergency contraception is also known as emergency birth control; emergency postcoital contraception; and postcoital contraception.
Emergency department
The department of a hospital responsible for the provision of medical and surgical care to patients arriving at the hospital in need of immediate care. Emergency department personnel may also respond to certain situations within the hospital such cardiac arrests. The emergency department is also called the emergency room or ER.
Emergency Medical Identification
Cards, bracelets, or necklaces with a written message used by people with diabetes or other medical problems to alert others in case of a medical emergency such as coma. |See the list of companies that sell Medical Identification Products.
Emergency Medical Services
This is comprised of all the medical out-of-hospital services designed to provide emergency medical care. This normally consists of Rescue teams, First Responders, EMT's, Paramedics and Air-Evacuation personnel.
Emergency physician
A physician focused on the immediate decision making and action necessary to prevent death or any further disability both in the prehospital setting by directing emergency medical technicians and in the emergency department. The emergency physician provides immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition of a generally diversified population of adult and pediatric patients in response to acute illness and injury.
Emerging infectious disease
An infectious disease that has newly appeared in a population or that has been known for some time but is rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Extinction
The weakening of a reinforced operant response as a result of ceasing reinforcement. See also operant conditioning. Also, the elimination of a conditioned response by repeated presentations of a conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus. See also respondent conditioning.
Extraversion
A state in which attention and energies are largely directed outward from the self as opposed to inward toward the self, as in introversion.
Expiatory paraphilia
One of a group of paraphilias characterized by triumph wrested developmentally from sexuoerotic tragedy by means of a strategy that incorporates sinful lust into the lovemap on the condition that it requires reparation or atonement by way of penance and sacrifice, since it irrevocably defiles saintly love.
Eligibilic paraphilia
One of a group of paraphilias characterized by triumph wrested developmentally from sexuoerotic tragedy by means of a strategy that incorporates lust into the lovemap on the condition that the partner be, like a pagan infidel, unqualified or ineligible to be a saint defiled.
Emergency Medical Services
This is comprised of all the medical out-of-hospital services designed to provide emergency medical care. This normally consists of Rescue teams, First Responders, EMT's, Paramedics and Air-Evacuation personnel.
Emergency Medical Technician
EMS
See Emergency Medical Services.
EMT
See Emergency Medical Technician.
Endotracheal tube
A tube which is inserted in the airway, by ACLS personnel, to provide a secure airway. This is the definitive airway control technique.
ET Tube
See Endotracheal Tube.
Endometrial ablation
Removal of the lining of the womb. Removing the uterine lining decreases menstrual flow or stops it completely. Ablation means removal or excision, usually surgically. The word comes from the Latin ablatum meaning to carry away.
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