Chapter 3

Question 1

Abandonment

Answer 1

Stopping the treatment of the patient without transferring the care to another competent professional of an equal or higher level of training and certification or licensure is known as

Question 2

Advance directive

Answer 2

Instructions written in advance against resuscitation signed by the patient is a legally recognized document

Question 3

Assault

Answer 3

Willful threat threat to inflict harm on a patient

Question 4

Battery

Answer 4

The act of touching a patient unlawfully with out his consent

Question 5

False imprisonment

Answer 5

Kidnapping

Question 6

Consent

Answer 6

Permission

Question 7

Consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act(cobra)

Answer 7

Federal regulations that ensure the public’s access to emergency health care regardless of ability to pay

Question 8

Defamation

Answer 8

Releasing information to the public in either written or spoken form that is construed to be damaging to that persons character reputation or standing within the community

Question 9

DNR

Answer 9

Legal document or order that most often governs resuscitation issues only

Question 10

Durable power of attorney

Answer 10

Also know. As health care proxy designates a person who is legally empowered to make health care decisions

Question 11

Duty to act

Answer 11

Legal obligation to provide service

Question 12

Emergency medical treatment and active labor act (EMTALA)

Answer 12

Federal regulations that ensure public’s access to ems health care regardless of ability to pay

Question 13

Expressed consent

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Good Samaritan law

Answer 14

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 15

Hippa

Answer 15

Federal law that protects the privacy of patient health care information and distribution and use

Question 16

Implied consent

Answer 16

Also known as emergency doctrine occurs when you assume that a patient who is unresponsive or who is unable to make rational decisions would consent to ems care

Question 17

Informed consent

Answer 17

Patient must be informed of care to be provided and associated risks and consequences consent obtained is called INFORMED CONSENT

Question 18

Intentional tort

Answer 18

Action knowingly committed by an individual that is considered civilly wrong according to the law

Question 19

Involuntary consent

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Libel

Answer 20

Putting a false or damaging statement in written form or via mass media

Question 21

Living will

Answer 21

Often used to cover more general health care issues including the use of long term life support equipment such as ventilations and feeding tubes

Question 22

Minor consent

Answer 22

Consent to treat a minor

Question 23

Negligence

Answer 23

Is a tort which there is no intent to harm a patient but duty to act breach occurred

Question 24

Physician orders for life sustaining treatment (POLST)

Answer 24

Used in patients with serious or terminal illness who are not expected to survive for longer than 1 year. Also know as medical orders for life-sustaining treatment(MOLST)

Question 25

Proximate cause

Answer 25

Determination that the injuries suffered to a patient were direct results of the emts negligence

Question 26

Scope of practice

Answer 26

Actions emts are legally allowed to preform

Question 27

Slander

Answer 27

Spoken form of defamation

Question 28

Standard of care

Answer 28

The care that is expected to be provided by an emt with similar training when managing a patient

Question 29

Tort

Answer 29

Wrongful act,injury, or damage, or and injury that resulted from the emts actions