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Adrenaline
Adrenaline, also known as adrenalin or epinephrine, is a hormone, neurotransmitter, and medication.
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Advanced emergency medical technician
Advanced emergency medical technician (AEMT) is a mid-level provider of prehospital emergency medical services in the United States; a transition to this level of training from the Emergency Medical Technician-Intermediate (EMT-I), which had somewhat less training, began in 2013 and has been implemented by most states at this point.
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Advanced life support
Advanced Life Support (ALS) is a set of life-saving protocols and skills that extend Basic Life Support to further support the circulation and provide an open airway and adequate ventilation (breathing).
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Ambulance
An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation, from or between places of treatment, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient.
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American Heart Association
The American Heart Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke.
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Analgesic
An analgesic or painkiller is any member of the group of drugs used to achieve analgesia, relief from pain.
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Anchorage, Kentucky
Anchorage is a home rule-class city in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Antiarrhythmic agent
Antiarrhythmic agents, also known as cardiac dysrhythmia medications, are a group of pharmaceuticals that are used to suppress abnormal rhythms of the heart (cardiac arrhythmias), such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular tachycardia, and ventricular fibrillation.
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Aspirin
Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), is a medication used to treat pain, fever, or inflammation.
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Associate degree
An associate degree (or associate's degree) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study intended to usually last two years or more.
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Atropine
Atropine is a medication to treat certain types of nerve agent and pesticide poisonings as well as some types of slow heart rate and to decrease saliva production during surgery.
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Auburndale, Louisville
Auburndale is a neighborhood on the south side of Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
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Audubon Park, Kentucky
Audubon Park is a home rule-class city in central Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Automated external defibrillator
An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia, and is able to treat them through defibrillation, the application of electricity which stops the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to reestablish an effective rhythm.
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Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline).
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Bag valve mask
A bag valve mask, abbreviated to BVM and sometimes known by the proprietary name Ambu bag or generically as a manual resuscitator or "self-inflating bag", is a hand-held device commonly used to provide positive pressure ventilation to patients who are not breathing or not breathing adequately.
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Basic life support
Basic life support (BLS) is a level of medical care which is used for victims of life-threatening illnesses or injuries until they can be given full medical care at a hospital.
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Beechmont, Louisville
Beechmont is a neighborhood in the south end of Louisville, Kentucky.
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Bleeding
Bleeding, also known as hemorrhaging or haemorrhaging, is blood escaping from the circulatory system.
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Blood pressure
Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels.
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Bowman Field (airport)
Bowman Field is a public airport five miles (8 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Bronchodilator
A bronchodilator is a substance that dilates the bronchi and bronchioles, decreasing resistance in the respiratory airway and increasing airflow to the lungs.
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Buechel, Louisville
Buechel is a former census-designated place in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Bullitt County, Kentucky
Bullitt County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky located in the far western Bluegrass region known as the Knobs.
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Butchertown, Louisville
Butchertown is a neighborhood just east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA, bounded by I-65, Main Street, I-71, Beargrass Creek and Mellwood Avenue.
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California, Kentucky
California is a home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States.
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Camp Taylor, Louisville
Camp Taylor is a neighborhood and former military base six miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
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Capnography
Capnography is the monitoring of the concentration or partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the respiratory gases.
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Captain (armed forces)
The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers.
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Cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest is a sudden loss of blood flow resulting from the failure of the heart to effectively pump.
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure that combines chest compressions often with artificial ventilation in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest.
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Clark Memorial Hospital
Clark Memorial Hospital is a hospital located and operated in Clark County, Indiana in the city of Jeffersonville.
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Clifton, Louisville
Clifton is a neighborhood east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky USA.
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Colonel
Colonel ("kernel", abbreviated Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank below the brigadier and general officer ranks.
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Cricothyrotomy
A cricothyrotomy (also called cric, thyrocricotomy, cricothyroidotomy, inferior laryngotomy, intercricothyrotomy, coniotomy or emergency airway puncture) is an incision made through the skin and cricothyroid membrane to establish a patent airway during certain life-threatening situations, such as airway obstruction by a foreign body, angioedema, or massive facial trauma.
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Cryptographic protocol
A security protocol (cryptographic protocol or encryption protocol) is an abstract or concrete protocol that performs a security-related function and applies cryptographic methods, often as sequences of cryptographic primitives.
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Defibrillation
Defibrillation is a treatment for life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias, specifically ventricular fibrillation (VF) and non-perfusing ventricular tachycardia (VT).
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Dopamine
Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is an organic chemical of the catecholamine and phenethylamine families that plays several important roles in the brain and body.
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Downtown Louisville
Downtown Louisville is the largest central business district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the urban hub of the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Area.
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Electrocardiography
Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG) is the process of recording the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time using electrodes placed on the skin.
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Emergency medical services
Emergency medical services, also known as ambulance services or paramedic services (abbreviated to the initialism EMS, EMAS, EMARS or SAMU in some countries), are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care, transport to definitive care, and other medical transport to patients with illnesses and injuries which prevent the patient from transporting themselves.
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Emergency medical technician
Emergency medical technician (EMT) and ambulance technician are terms used in some countries to denote a health care provider of emergency medical services.
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Emergency physician
An emergency physician is a physician who works at an emergency department to care for acutely ill patients.
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English Station, Louisville
English Station is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky centered along Shelbyville Road (US 60) and the Floyds Fork watershed.
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Fairdale, Louisville
Fairdale is a former census-designated place in southern Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Fern Creek, Louisville
Fern Creek is a historic community in southeastern Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Fire department
A fire department (American English) or fire brigade (British English), also known as a fire protection district, fire authority or fire and rescue service is an organization that primarily provides firefighting services for a specific geographic area.
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Firefighter
A firefighter is a rescuer extensively trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten life, property and the environment as well as to rescue people and animals from dangerous situations.
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Ford F-Series
The Ford F-Series is a series of light-duty trucks and medium-duty trucks (Class 2-7) that have been marketed and manufactured by Ford Motor Company since 1948.
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Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
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Germantown, Louisville
Germantown is a neighborhood three miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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Glucose
Glucose is a simple sugar with the molecular formula C6H12O6.
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Graymoor-Devondale, Kentucky
Graymoor-Devondale is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Highlands–Douglass, Louisville
Highlands–Douglass is a neighborhood five miles (8 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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Highview, Louisville
Highview is a former census-designated place in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Hikes Point, Louisville
Hikes Point is a neighborhood in eastern Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and nursing staff and medical equipment.
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and Canada.
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Intramuscular injection
Intramuscular (also IM or im) injection is the injection of a substance directly into muscle.
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Intraosseous infusion
Intraosseous infusion (IO) is the process of injecting directly into the marrow of a bone.
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Intravenous therapy
Intravenous therapy (IV) is a therapy that delivers liquid substances directly into a vein (intra- + ven- + -ous).
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Iroquois, Louisville
Iroquois is a neighborhood on the south side of Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
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Jefferson County EMS
Jefferson County Emergency Medical Services was the primary advanced life support provider for Jefferson County, Kentucky outside the limits of the City of Louisville.
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Jefferson County Fire Service
The Jefferson County Fire Service (abbreviated as JCFS and known locally as "County Fire" or "Suburban Fire") is an organization that unifies the 16 independent fire protection districts outside the original Louisville city limits.
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Jefferson County, Kentucky
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
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Jeffersontown, Kentucky
Jeffersontown is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Jeffersonville, Indiana
Jeffersonville is a city in Clark County, Indiana, along the Ohio River.
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Jerry Abramson
Jerry Edwin Abramson (born September 12, 1946) is an American Democratic politician who was the 55th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
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Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.
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Lieutenant
A lieutenant (abbreviated Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a junior commissioned officer in the armed forces, fire services, police and other organizations of many nations.
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Lieutenant colonel
Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.
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Louisville Division of Fire
The Louisville Division of Fire, commonly known as the Louisville Fire Department or Louisville Fire & Rescue (abbreviated LFD or LFR), is the sole fire suppression agency for the city of Louisville, Kentucky and is one of nineteen fire departments within the Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky metropolitan area.
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Louisville EMS
Louisville Emergency Medical Services (LEMS) was the primary advanced life support provider within the corporate limits of Louisville, Kentucky from 1972 to 1995.
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Louisville Metro Police Department
The Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) began operations on January 6, 2003, as part of the creation of the consolidated city-county government in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
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Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.
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Lyndon, Kentucky
Lyndon is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Major
Major is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world.
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Middletown, Kentucky
Middletown is an independent, home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States, and a former neighborhood of Louisville.
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Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company founded on September 25, 1928, based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
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Naloxone
Naloxone, sold under the brandname Narcan among others, is a medication used to block the effects of opioids, especially in overdose.
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Nebulizer
In medicine, a nebulizer or nebuliser (see spelling differences) is a drug delivery device used to administer medication in the form of a mist inhaled into the lungs.
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New Albany, Indiana
New Albany is a city in Floyd County, Indiana, United States, situated along the Ohio River opposite Louisville, Kentucky.
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Newburg, Louisville
Newburg is a former census-designated place in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Nitroglycerin
Nitroglycerin (NG), also known as nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin (TNG), trinitroglycerine, nitro, glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), or 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane, is a heavy, colorless, oily, explosive liquid most commonly produced by nitrating glycerol with white fuming nitric acid under conditions appropriate to the formation of the nitric acid ester.
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Norton Healthcare
Norton Healthcare is one of Kentucky's health care systems with more than 40 clinics and hospitals in and around Louisville, Kentucky.
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Okolona, Louisville
Okolona is a former census-designated place (CDP) in southern Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Oldham County, Kentucky
Oldham County is a county located in the U.S. state and commonwealth of the Kentucky.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.
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Paramedic
A paramedic is a healthcare professional who responds to medical emergencies outside of a hospital.
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Perfusion
Perfusion is the passage of fluid through the circulatory system or lymphatic system to an organ or a tissue, usually referring to the delivery of blood to a capillary bed in tissue.
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Pharynx
The pharynx (plural: pharynges) is the part of the throat that is behind the mouth and nasal cavity and above the esophagus and the larynx, or the tubes going down to the stomach and the lungs.
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Pleasure Ridge Park, Louisville
Pleasure Ridge Park (often referred to simply as PRP) is a former census-designated place (CDP) in southwest Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Police officer
A police officer, also known as an officer, policeman, policewoman, cop, police agent, or a police employee is a warranted law employee of a police force.
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Portland, Louisville
Portland is a neighborhood and former independent town northwest of downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
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Project 25
Project 25 (P25 or APCO-25) is a suite of standards for digital mobile radio communications designed for use by public safety organizations in North America.
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Protected health information
Protected health information (PHI) under the US law is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that is created or collected by a Covered Entity (or a Business Associate of a Covered Entity), and can be linked to a specific individual.
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Pulse oximetry
Pulse oximetry is a noninvasive method for monitoring a person's oxygen saturation (SO2).
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Rural Metro
Rural Metro Fire, founded in 1948, is an American private fire department that provides fire protection and emergency medical services, to individual homeowners and commercial businesses in unincorporated locations throughout the United States, primarily under a subscription-based model.
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Russell, Louisville
Russell is a neighborhood immediately west of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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Salbutamol
Salbutamol, also known as albuterol and marketed as Ventolin among other names, is a medication that opens up the medium and large airways in the lungs.
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Sergeant
Sergeant (abbreviated to Sgt and capitalized when used as a named person's title) is a rank in many uniformed organizations, principally military and policing forces.
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Shawnee, Louisville
Shawnee is a neighborhood in western Louisville, Kentucky.
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Shelby County, Kentucky
Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
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Shively, Kentucky
Shively is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States, and a suburb of Louisville within the Louisville Metro government.
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Smoketown, Louisville
Smoketown is a neighborhood one mile (1.6 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
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Sodium bicarbonate
Sodium bicarbonate (IUPAC name: sodium hydrogen carbonate), commonly known as baking soda, is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3.
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St. Matthews, Kentucky
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Subcutaneous injection
A subcutaneous injection is administered as a bolus into the subcutis, the layer of skin directly below the dermis and epidermis, collectively referred to as the cutis.
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Sumner, Iowa
Sumner is a city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States.
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SWAT
In the United States, a SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team is a law enforcement unit which uses specialized or military equipment and tactics.
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Technical rescue
"Technical rescue" refers to the aspects of saving life or property that employ the use of tools and skills that exceed those normally reserved for fire fighting and emergency medical services,.
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The Highlands, Louisville
The Highlands is an area in Louisville, Kentucky which contains a high density of nightclubs, eclectic businesses, and many upscale and fast food restaurants.
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Thoracostomy
A thoracostomy is a small incision of the chest wall, with maintenance of the opening for drainage.
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Tourniquet
A tourniquet can be defined as a constricting or compressing device used to control arterial and venous blood flow to a portion of an extremity for a period of time.
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Tracheal intubation
Tracheal intubation, usually simply referred to as intubation, is the placement of a flexible plastic tube into the trachea (windpipe) to maintain an open airway or to serve as a conduit through which to administer certain drugs.
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Tracheal tube
A tracheal tube is a catheter that is inserted into the trachea for the primary purpose of establishing and maintaining a patent airway and to ensure the adequate exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
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Tracheotomy
Tracheotomy, or tracheostomy, is a surgical procedure which consists of making an incision on the anterior aspect of the neck and opening a direct airway through an incision in the trachea (windpipe).
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Trauma center
A trauma center (or trauma centre) is a hospital equipped and staffed to provide care for patients suffering from major traumatic injuries such as falls, motor vehicle collisions, or gunshot wounds.
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Trunked radio system
A trunked radio system is two-way radio system that uses a control channel to automatically direct radio traffic.
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Union shop
A union shop, also known as a post-entry closed shop, is a form of a union security clause.
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University of Louisville
The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky, a member of the Kentucky state university system.
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Valley Station, Louisville
Valley Station is a former census-designated place in southwest Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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Vasoconstriction
Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contraction of the muscular wall of the vessels, in particular the large arteries and small arterioles.
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Vasopressin
Vasopressin, also named antidiuretic hormone (ADH), arginine vasopressin (AVP) or argipressin, is a hormone synthesized as a peptide prohormone in neurons in the hypothalamus, and is converted to AVP.
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Veterans Health Administration
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health that implements the healthcare program of the VA through the administration and operation of numerous VA Medical Centers (VAMC), Outpatient Clinics (OPC), Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC), and VA Community Living Centers (VA Nursing Home) Programs.
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Watterson Park, Kentucky
Watterson Park is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
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9-1-1
9-1-1, also written 911, is an emergency telephone number for the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), one of eight N11 codes.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_Metro_EMS