EMT Chapter 4: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues

Question 1

What is it called when mentally competent adults of legal age accept care from an EMS crew?

Answer 1

Expresses consent

Question 2

What is it called when authority is granted to a teacher or other adult by a child’s parents to make treatment decisions in their absence?

Answer 2

In loco parentis

Question 3

What is it called when an EMS personnel can treat unconscious patients because the law holds that rational patients would consent to treatment if they were conscious?

Answer 3

Implied consent

Question 4

What are minors who are married or of a certain age and who can legally able to give consent for medical care known as?

Answer 4

Emancipated

Question 5

What is the form called that patients must sign when they refuse care?

Answer 5

A release form

Question 6

What could refusal to go to a hospital, or unwillingness to accept the idea of illness be a form of?

Answer 6

Denial

Question 7

If an EMT forces a competent patient to go to the hospital against their will, the EMT may be charged with what?

Answer 7

Assault

Question 8

What is a legal document, usually signed by the patient and their physician, stating that the patient has a terminal illness and does not wish to prolong life through resuscitative efforts called?

Answer 8

A DNR Order

Question 9

What is a person whom the signer od a document names to make health care decisions in case the signer is unable to make such decisions called?

Answer 9

A Proxy

Question 10

What are the legislative measures intended to provide legal protection for citizens and some health care personnel who administer emergency care known as?

Answer 10

Good Samaritan Laws

Question 11

What is an EMT’s obligation in certain situations to provide care to a patient called?

Answer 11

A duty to act

Question 12

What would an EMT be found guilty of if the jury found that an EMT had a duty to a patient, that the EMT failed to carry out that duty properly, and that this action caused harm to the patient?

Answer 12

Negligence

Question 13

What are the statutes that allow a person to abandon their parental duties and leagally drop off a child to an EMS station or other public safety building called?

Answer 13

Safe haven laws

Question 14

What is a DNR order an example of?

Answer 14

An advance directive

Question 15

What is the principle that information about a patient’s history, condition, or treatment must not be shared with unauthorized parties called?

Answer 15

Confidentiality

Question 16

What should you do if you discover that a critically injured patient is an organ doner?

Answer 16

Contact medical direction

Question 17

Once the police have made the scene safe, what is the priority of the EMT at a crime scene?

Answer 17

Provide patient care

Question 18

What is leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal of greater medical training known as?

Answer 18

Abandonment

Question 19

What is the extent and limits of the job that the EMT does referred to as?

Answer 19

Scope of practice