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This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
In the United States, paramedicine is the physician-directed practice of medicine, often viewed as the intersection of health care, public health, and public safety.While discussed for many years, the concept of paramedicine was first formally described in the EMS Agenda for the Future. [1]
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One is Community Paramedic, who care for patients at home or in other non-urgent settings to provide access to basic healthcare services which may be difficult for patients to access. Another is Wilderness Paramedic, who receives special training to address the unique challenges of providing emergency medical care in remote and austere ...
Paramedic IC - Paramedic Instructor Coordinator; EMT-AD - Emergency Medical Technician - Automatic Defibrillator [citation needed] EMT-CC - Emergency Medical Technician - Critical Care [citation needed] EMT-CT - Emergency Medical Technician - Cardiac Tech [citation needed] EMT-M - Emergency Medical Technician - MAST (Military Anti-Shock Trousers)
The basic application of the ABC principle is in first aid, and is used in cases of unconscious patients to start treatment and assess the need for, and then potentially deliver, cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The parts of the mnemonic are: Onset of the event What the patient was doing when it started (active, inactive, stressed, etc.), whether the patient believes that activity prompted the pain, [2] and whether the onset was sudden, gradual or part of an ongoing chronic problem.
Similarly, the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians has developed the Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) course for basic Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT)s and a more advanced level class for Paramedics. The International Trauma Life Support committee publishes the ITLS-Basic and ITLS-Advanced courses for prehospital ...