Background Information

Question 1

As a chiropractor, your scope of practice may entitle you to be a what and provide emergency stabilization>

Answer 1

Doctor On Duty

Question 2

In emergency situations it is part of the responsibility of being a?

Answer 2

Healthcare Provider

Question 3

A delay of as little as how many minutes when a person’s heart stops can mean death?

Answer 3

4 minutes

Question 4

What is the value to yourself knowing what to do in an emergency situation?

Answer 4

Care for your own injuries

Develop safety awareness & promote injury prevention

Question 5

What is the value to others knowing what to do in an emergency situation?

Answer 5

Allows you to offer proper assistant to family members, coworkers, acquaintances and strangers.

Question 6

What types of areas present unique first aid challenges?

Answer 6

Urban Areas
Remote Occupations
Remote Communities
Developing Countries

Question 7

What is the immediate assessment and stabilization provided when a person has been injured or is suddenly ill?

Answer 7

First Aid

Question 8

First aid does not take the place of what?

Answer 8

Proper Medical Care

Question 9

First aid also includes recognizing a serious medical emergency and knowing what?

Answer 9

How to get help

Question 10

First aid can mean the difference between?

Answer 10

Life vs Death
Rapid Recovery vs Long Hospitalization
Temporary vs Permanent Disability

Question 11

You can be sued for rendering first aid, however the risk can be minimized if you do what steps?

Answer 11

Get victims consent
Follow guidelines
Don't exceed training
Explain any first aid you will give
Stay with the person after you start

Question 12

What is permission that the victim must give before first aid can be given?

Answer 12

Consent

Question 13

It is unlawful to begin first aid without the victims consent so therefore touching another person without his/her consent is known as?

Answer 13

Battery

Question 14

When consent is obtained from an alert mentally competent person of legal age is it known as?

Answer 14

Expressed Consent

Question 15

What is acceptable for obtaining expressed consent?

Answer 15

Nod of Head

Verbal Indication

Question 16

What is it called when it’s assumed or implied that an unresponsive victim would consent to lifesaving interventions?

Answer 16

Implied Consent

Question 17

An alert victim who doesn’t resist the administrations of a first aider is also assumed to have given?

Answer 17

Implied Consent

Question 18

In order to care for children or mentally incompetent consent must be obtained from who?

Answer 18

Parent or Legal Guardian of child/victim

Question 19

When a life threatening situation exists and a parent/guardian is not present, first aid should be given based on what?

Answer 19

Implied Consent

Question 20

If an alert and mentally competent rejects help what should you do?

Answer 20

Explain the situation to the victim and what you intend to do
Call 911
Try to persuade victim to accept care
Try to have witnesses of refusal

Question 21

Who is the only person with the authority to restrain and transport a person against the person’s will?

Answer 21

Police Officer

Question 22

Once you respond to an emergency, you must not leave a victim who needs continuing first aid until another competent and trained person takes responsibility for the victim. If you leave this is considered?

Answer 22

Abandonment

Question 23

What is failure to follow the accepted standards of care, resulting in further injury to the victim?

Answer 23

Negligence

Question 24

What is the faiure to do what a reasonably prudent person with the same or similar training would do in the same or similar situation?

Answer 24

Act of Omission

Question 25

What is doing something that a reasonably prudent person would not do under the same or similar circumstances?

Answer 25

Act of Commission

Question 26

The law requires you to report what?

Answer 26

Rape
Abuse
Gunshot Wounds

Question 27

You do not have to help a stranger unless you have a legal obligation to that person or you were involved in the events that led to the victims injuries. This is known as?

Answer 27

Duty to Act

Question 28

You have a duty to act if you?

Answer 28

designated by employer to provide first aid
licensed by state to give emergency care
have preexisting relationship with victim

Question 29

What are the laws that are designed to protect trained health care providers from lawsuits arising from emergency care provided while not on duty?

Answer 29

Good Samaritan Laws

Question 30

The good samaritan laws are designed to encourage people to assist others in distress by granting them what?

Answer 30

Immunity against lawsuits

Question 31

Good samaritan laws protect the rescuer?

Answer 31

Acting during an emergency
Not on duty
Acting in good faith with good intentions
Acting without compensation
Not guilty of malicious misconduct or gross negligence toward the victim

Question 32

Effective prevention uses a combination of what 3 E’s?

Answer 32

Education
Enforcement
Engineering