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Chapter 1-4 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - ETT start treatment till EMT arrives most of the time
        
        EMT provide additional care above an ETT
        
        Emergency Medical Responders and emergency trauma technicians (ETT) do primary assessments and stabilization
        
        Air medical Services are usually staffed by paramedics and nurses they have special training
        
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        Hospitals provide more extensive care
        
        dispatchers coordinate responding units and personnel on the way to the scene of the emergency
        
        Dispatchers may provide medical instructions
        
        The primary role of the ETT is to respond to an emergency, assess needs, deliver care and pass a patient on to healthcare workers
        
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- - - - Make sure your patient know if they change their mind they can call EMS again
        
        If the patient is a child there parent can give consent for them (Parental Consent)
        
        Pregnant teenagers can consent during their pregnancy
        
        if patient is unconscious or unable to make a decision ETTs can use implied consent
        
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        negligence is defined as failure to provide appropriate care to patient
        
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- - - - every system in the body has an important function
        
        CPR can temporarily replace the work of the heart in a patient
        
        Splinting a patients broken arm can mimic the effects of the skeletal system
        
        all of the temporary acts a ETT Preforms need to be taken to the hospital
        
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        Bilateral: Both sides (left and right)
        
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- - - - if you are not the first person on the scene help make sure others are safe
        
        EMS should make sure they are safe before helping others
        
        the first rule of healthcare is "do no harm"
        
        obey all traffic laws on way to scene
        
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        Important gear exam gloves, eye protection, face masks, particulate respirator masks, gowns, and shoe covers
        
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