4, 27 Flashcards
WOTF is true regarding advanced directives where a patient has chosen some interventions but not others?
These are usually invalid in a pre-hospital setting.
On an EMS run your partner wants to know why you called the police?
You anticipated the patient could be violent or dangerous
WOTF is true regarding organ donation?
Organ donation intentions may be found on cards or medic alert tags.
When an EMS provider attempts to preserve evidence that may be on clothing removed from a patient, the clothing should be placed:
Inside a brown paper bag
WOTF is the MOST uncommon reason for the varying degrees of DNR orders?
Financial reasons
WOTF would suggest that your patient is at an increased risk for suicide?
Sudden improvement from depression
On arrival on scene with a seizure patient, you are told the adult patient has never had a seizure before. There is no hypoxia, what should you expect?
Alcoholism
What is a behavioral emergency?
When a patient exhibits an abnormal behavior that is unacceptable
When do the most cases of pt abandonment happen?
When transferring care at the hospital
What would lead you to suspect a patient could become violent?
Rapid speech and physical movement
Which pt is most likely to commit suicide?
78 YO man
You perform a treatment incorrectly, for whihc of the 4 types of negligence type are you guilty?
Failure to meet standard of care
WOTF would you least likely have a duty to act?
When you come across an accident on your way home
WOTF terms is used to label the front of the body?
Ventral
Another name for involuntary muscle tissue?
Smooth muscle
