Acronyms
EMS for Children Related Acronyms
Listed here are acronyms you may see in reference to EMSC-related projects, publications, and resources.
A
- AAA: American Ambulance Association
- AAFP: American Academy of Family Physicians
- AAMS: Association of Air Medical Services
- AAP: American Academy of Pediatrics
- AASHTO: American Association of Highway and Transportation Officials
- ACA: Affordable Care Act
- ACCT: Association of Critical Care Transport
- ACEP: American College of Emergency Physicians
- ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- ACR: American College of Radiology
- ACS: American College of Surgeons
- ADA: Americans with Disabilities Act
- AED: automated external defibrillator
- AEMT: advanced emergency medical technician
- AHA: American Heart Association
- AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- ALS: advanced life support
- ALTE: apparent life threatening event
- ANSI: American National Standards Institute
- APLS: Advanced Pediatric Life Support
- ASPR: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response
- ASTHO: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
B
- BLS: basic life support
C
- CAAHEP: Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
- CAAS: Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services
- CAH: Critical access hospital
- CAMTS: Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems
- CAPCE: Commission on Accreditation for Prehospital Continuing Education
- CARE: Center of America Regional EMSC
- CBRN: Chemical, Biological, Radiation, Nuclear
- CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CHA: Children's Hospital Association
- CHaMP: Charlotte, Houston, Milwaukee Prehospital EMS Research Node (PECARN)
- CHIP: Children’s Health Insurance Program
- CoAEMSP: Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the EMS Professions
- CoE: Center of Excellence
- COIIN: Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network
- CoP: community of practice
- COPEM: Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine (AAP)
- CP: community paramedicine
- CPER: Center for Pediatric Everyday Readiness
- CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- CPS: child passenger safety
- CSHCN: children with special health care needs (also CSHN or CYSHCN)
- CSHN: children with special needs (also CSHCN or CYSHCN)
- CSN: Children’s Safety Network
- CYSHCN: children and youth with special health care needs (also CSHCN or CSHN)
D
- DCC: Data Coordinating Center
- DGIS: Discretionary Grant Information System
- DHS: Department of Homeland Security
- DNR: do not resuscitate (legal order to withhold CPR or ACLS in the event the patient’s heart stops or they stop breathing)
- DOT: US Department of Transportation
E
- E911: Enhanced 911 (universal emergency communications number that automatically identifies the telephone number and location of the caller)
- EBG: evidence-based guideline
- EBM: evidence-based medicine
- ECCC: Emergency Care Coordination Center (ASPR)
- ECHO: Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes
- ED: emergency department
- EHR: electronic health record
- EIIC: EMSC Innovation & Improvement Center
- EMAC: Emergency Management Assistance Compact
- EMR: emergency medical responder
- EMRA: Emergency Medicine Residents' Association
- EMS: emergency medical services
- EMSC: emergency medical services for children
- EMT: emergency medical technician
- EMT-I/99 or EMT-I/85: emergency medical technician-intermediate (99 & 85 identify the year the course was created)
- EMTALA: Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act
- ENA: Emergency Nurses Association
- ENPC: Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENA)
- EPC: Emergency Pediatric Care (NAEMT)
F
- FAN: Family Advisory Network
- FARS: Fatality Analysis Reporting System (NHTSA)
- FCC: family-centered care
- FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS)
- FHWA: Federal Highway Administration (DOT)
- FICEMS: Federal Interagency Committee on EMS
- FirstNet: First Responder Network Authority
- FRC: Facility Recognition Collaborative
G
- GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale
- GRADE: Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation
- GLEMSCRN: Great Lake Emergency Medical Services for Children Research Network (PECARN)
H
- HCC: health care coalitions
- HCUP: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (AHRQ)
- HECC: Heartland EMS for Children Coalition
- HEMS: helicopter EMS
- HHS: US Department of Health and Human Services
- HIPPA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- HL7: Health Level 7 Information
- HOMERUN: Hospitals of the Midwest Emergency Research Node (PECARN)
- HPP: Hospital Preparedness Program (ASPR)
- HRSA: Health Resources and Services Administration (HHS)
- HSEEP: Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program
- HVA: Hazard Vulnerability Analysis
I
- IAED: International Academies of Emergency Dispatch
- IAFCCP: International Association of Flight and Critical Care Paramedics
- IBSC: International Board of Specialty Certification
- ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision
- IRCP: International Roundtable on Community Paramedicine
- IHI: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- IHS: Indian Health Services (HHS)
- ILCOR: International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
- I/O: intraosseous infusion
- IOM: Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine)
- IRECC: Intermountain Region EMSC Coordinating Council
- ISS: injury severity score
- ITS: intelligent transportation systems
J
- JCREC: Joint Committee on Rural EMS Care
- JNEMSLF: Joint National EMS Leadership Forum
K
M
- MCHB: Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HRSA)
- MIH: mobile integrated healthcare
- MOC: maintenance of certification
- MVA: motor vehicle accident
N
- NACCHO: National Association of County and City Health Officials
- NAEMSE: National Association of EMS Educators
- NAEMSP: National Association of EMS Physicians
- NAEMT: National Association of EMTs
- NASEM: National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
- NASEMSO: National Association of State EMS Officials
- NEDARC: National EMS for Children Data Analysis Resource Center
- NEMSAC: National EMS Advisory Council (NHTSA)
- NEMSCD: National EMS Coordinated Database (only accessible by EMS Compact member states)
- NEMSIS: National EMS Information System
- NEMSAC: National EMS Management Association
- NEMSQA: National EMS Quality Alliance
- NFPA: National Fire Protection Association
- NHTSA: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT)
- NICHQ: National Institute for Children’s Health Quality
- NICU: neo-natal intensive care unit
- NIH: National Institutes of Health
- NIOSH: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC)
- NIMS: National Incident Management System (FEMA)
- NIST: National Institute of Standards & Technology (US Department of Commerce)
- NOA: Notice of Award (the official legally binding award document that: 1) notifies the recipient of the award of a grant; 2) contains or references all the terms and conditions of the grant and federal funding limits; and, 3) provides the documentary basis for recording the obligation of federal funds in the agencies’ accounting systems)
- NOFO: Notice of Funding Opportunity (an awarding office’s formally issued announcement of the availability of Federal funding through one of its financial assistance programs. The announcement invites applications and provides such information as eligibility and evaluation criteria, funding preferences/priorities, how to obtain application kits, and the submission deadline)
- NOSORH: National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health
- NPDP: National Practitioner Data Bank
- NPRA: National Pediatric Readiness Assessment
- NPRP: National Pediatric Readiness Project
- NQF: National Quality Forum
- NREMT: National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians
- NRHA: The National Rural Health Association
- NTSB: National Transportation Safety Board
- NTDB: National Trauma Data Bank
O
P
- PALS: Pediatric Advanced Life Support (AHA)
- PBTRC: Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center
- PCC: poison control center
- PCG: Prehospital Guidelines Consortium
- PDPQC: Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Quality Collaborative
- PDSA: plan, do, study, act
- PEAK: Pediatric Education and Advocacy Kits
- PEC: Prehospital Emergency Care (bi-monthly peer reviewed journal)
- PECARN: Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network
- PECC: Pediatric Emergency Care Council (NASEMSO)
- PECC: pediatric emergency care coordinator
- PECCLC: Prehospital Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinator Learning Collaborative
- PEM: pediatric emergency medicine
- PEM-NEWS: Pediatric Emergency Medicine Northeast, West and South (PECARN)
- PEPP: Pediatric Education for Prehospital Providers (AAP)
- PFCC: patient- and family-centered care
- PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support (NAEMT)
- PICU: pediatric intensive care unit
- PIER: Pacific Islands EMSC Region
- PMRP: Pediatric Medical Recognition Program
- PO: Project Officer
- PPE: personal protective equipment
- PPN: Pediatric Pandemic Network (HRSA-funded grant project)
- PREP: Pacific Region EMSC Partnership
- PRQC: Pediatric Readiness Quality Collaborative
- PPRP: Prehospital Pediatric Readiness Project
- PRIME: Pediatric Research in Injuries and Medical Emergencies (PECARN)
Q
- QA: quality assurance
- QI: quality improvement
R
- RDHRS: Regional Disaster Health Response System
- REPLICA: Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure CompAct
- RFP: request for proposal (a funding announcement used to solicit proposals from applicants)
S
- SERC: Southeast EMSC Regional Council
- SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, results oriented/relevant, time bound
- SHSO: State Highway Safety Office
- SOEM: Section on Emergency Medicine (AAP)
- SORH: State Office of Rural Health
- SP: State Partnership
- SPARC: San Francisco-Oakland, Providence, Atlanta Research Collaborative (PECARN)
- SPROC: State Partnership Regionalization of Care
- START: simple triage and rapid treatment
- SWOT: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
T
- TAC: technical assistance center
- TBI: Traumatic brain injury
- TI: Targeted Issues
- TIM: traffic incident management
- TNCC: Trauma Nurse Core Course (ENA)
- TQIP: Trauma Quality Improvement Program (ACS)
- TRACIE: Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (ASPR)
- TREKK: Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids
U
- URM: Underrepresented in Medicine (those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population)
- USFA: US Fire Administration (FEMA)
W
- WPEMR: West/SW Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research (PECARN)