Chapter 3

Question 1

Abandonment

Answer 1

Abandonment- can Accor in the emergency department if you do not officially transfer the care of the patient or if the transfer is to an inappropriate medical professional.

Question 2

Advance directive

Answer 2

Against resuscitation, signed by the patient is a legally recognized document. Many states provide state approved documents to be used for advanced directives.

Question 3

Assault

Answer 3

Is a willful threat to inflict harm on a patient. Assault can occur without actually directly touching the patient.

Question 4

Battery

Answer 4

The act of touching a patient unlawfully without his consent. I’d you don’t seek and obtain consent, your emergency care might be constructed as battery by the patient. Even though your intentions where good.

Question 5

Consent.

Answer 5

Is it necessary to opts in consent, or permission before providing such care. Before emergency care is provided, the patient must be informed of the care to be provided and the associated risks and consequences

Question 6

Consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act ( CORBA ) and the Emergency Medical Treatment and active labor act ( EMTALA )

Answer 6

Federal regulations that ensure the public’s access to emergency health care regardless of ability to pay. They are intended to eliminate any discrimination in who us provided emergency health care.

Question 7

Defamation

Answer 7

If you release info to the public to the public in either a written or spoken form that is constructed to be damaging to that persons character, reputation or standing within the community, you can be charged with defamation.

Question 8

DNR - do not resuscitate order

Answer 8

Is a legal document or order that most often given governs resuscitation issues only, whereas a living will is more often used to cover more general health care issues, including the use of long term life support equipment such as ventilators and feeding tubes.

Question 9

Durable power of attorney.

Answer 9

Also known as health care proxy, designates a person who is legally empowered to make health care decisions for the signer of the document if he is unable to do so for himself.

Question 10

Duty to act.

Answer 10

Refers to your legal obligation to provide service, whether you think the patient needs an ambulance or not.

Question 11

Expressed consent.

Answer 11

Must be obtained from every conscious adult who has the capacity to make a rational decision before treatment is started

Question 12

Good Samaritan law

Answer 12

Protects a person who is not being paid for his services from liability for acts performed in good faith unless those acts constitute gross negligence.

Question 13

False imprisonment

Answer 13

Taking the patient to the hospital or other medical care facility against his wishes may result in charges of false imprisonment or kidnapping. They result from intentionally transporting a patient without his consent.

Question 14

HIPPA

Answer 14

Act of 1996 is a federal law that protects the privacy of patient health care information and gives the patient control over how the information is distributed and used.

Question 15

Implied consent

Answer 15

Known as the emergency doctrine, occurs when you assume that a patient who is unresponsive or who is unable to make a rational decision. A patient who is disoriented because of a head injury, would consent to emergency care if he could.

Question 16

Minor consent.

Answer 16

Or consent to treat a Minor must be I gained from a parent legal guardian, or other person who has been granted limited rights or decision making by the parent or guardian, such as a teacher, step
Parent, or another authorized caregiver.

Question 17

Intentional torts

Answer 17

An action knowingly committed by an individual that is considered civilly wrong according to the law. Common intentional torts in EMS include, abandonment, assault, battery, false imprisonment, and defamation.

Question 18

Involuntary consent

Answer 18

Can be applied when you are dealing with a mentally incompetent adult or with an individual who is in custody of law enforcement or is incarcerated.

Question 19

Libel

Answer 19

Libel is putting a false statement or damaging statements in written form or via mass media.

Question 20

Living will

Answer 20

More commonly used to cover more general health care issues. Including the use of long term life support equipment such as ventilators and feeding tubes.

Question 21

Negligence

Answer 21

Is a tort in which there is no intent to do any harm to the patient but in which a breach in the duty to act occurred.

Question 22

POLST. / physician orders for life sustaining treatment. Or medical ordered for life sustaining treatment ( MOLST )

Answer 22

Are used in patients with serious ir terminal illness who are not expected to survive longer than a year.

Question 23

Proximate cause.

Answer 23

To be determined that the injuries suffered by the patient were the direct result of the EMT’s negligence.

Question 24

Scope of practice

Answer 24

The actions and care that EMT’s Are legally able to perform by the state which they are providing emergency medical care.

Question 25

Slander

Answer 25

The spoken form of defamation

Question 26

Standard of care

Answer 26

Defined as the care that is expected to be provided by an EMT with similar training when managing patient in similar situation.

Question 27

Tort

Answer 27

Is a wrongful act, injury, or damage.