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Medicolegal & Ethics Flashcards

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Abandonment

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Termination of care without assurance that an equal or greater level of care will continue.

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DNR

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Do Not Resuscitate

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Definitive Care

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Care that will improve, rather than simply stabilize, a patient’s condition.

(surgery or other care provided in a hospital).

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Expressed Consent

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1) Patient of legal age.

2) Patient must be informed.

3) Must be obtained from conscious, competent adults.

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Implied Consent

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Assumption that a patient would agree to medical care if able.

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Medical Control — Off-line

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Standing orders which allow the EMT’s to provide care without direct contact with a physician.

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Medical Control — On-line

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Direct order received from the physician to provide care.

May be requested at any time.

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Medical Director

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Physician who authorizes the EMT’s in the service to provide medical care in the field.

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Negligence

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The omission of the care that is usual under the circumstances.

4 elements necessary to prove negligence:

1) Duty to Act
2) Breach of the Duty
3) Injury or Damages Inflicted
4) Actions or Omissions Caused Damages

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Scope of Practice

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Defines the procedures, actions, and processes that are permitted for the licensed individual.

NOTE: You absolutely cannot do anything that is outside of your Scope of Practice.

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Americans With Disabilities Act

(ADA)

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Comprehensive legislation that is designed to protect people with disabilities against discrimination.

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Certification

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A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care.

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Community Paramedicine

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A healthcare model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to provide services in prehospital environments.

Services include:

— Health evaluations
— Monitoring of chronic illnesses / conditions
— Patient advocacy.

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Continuous Quality Improvement

(CQI)

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A system of internal and external review audits of all aspects of an EMS system aiming at improving outcomes.

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Credentialing

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And establish process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a particular profession, or to function as an organization.

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Emergency Medical Dispatch

(EMD)

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A system that assists dispatchers and selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance, and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.

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Emergency Medical Responder

(EMR)

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A first trained professional, such as a police officer, fire fighter, lifeguard, or other rescuer, who may arrive first at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.

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Emergency Medical Services

(EMS)

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A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured.

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Emergency Medical Technician

(EMT)

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An individual who has training in basic life support, including automated external defibrillation, use of a definitive airway adjunct, and assisting patients with certain medication.

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Advanced EMT

(AEMT)

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An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications.

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Automated External Defibrillator

(AED)

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A device that the text treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia), and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to a patient.

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Evidence-based Medicine

(EBM)

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An approach to medicine where decisions are based on well-conducted research, classifying recommendations based on the strength of the scientific evidence; also called science-based medicine.

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

(HIPAA)

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Federal legislation passed in 1996.

It’s main effect and EMS is in limiting availability of patients’ healthcare information and penalizing violations of patient privacy

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Licensure

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The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated act.

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Medical Control

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Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (on-line / direct) or indirectly by protocols / guidelines (off-line / indirect), as authorized by the medical Director of the service program.

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Medical Director

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The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field.

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Mobile Integrated Health Care

(MIH)

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A method of delivering healthcare that involves providing healthcare within the community rather than a physician’s office or hospital.

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National EMS Scope of Practice Model

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A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers.

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Paramedic

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An individual who has extensive training in advance life support, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills.

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Primary Prevention

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Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.

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Primary Service Area

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Designated area in which the EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.

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Public Health

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The branch of medicine that is focused on examining the health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing health problems.

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Public Safety Access Point

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The call center, staffed by trying to personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, fire, an ambulance services.

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Quality Control

(QC)

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Oversight by the medical Director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMTs on each call.

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Secondary Prevention

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Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent.

Efforts that take place after an event has occurred.

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Center for Disease Control & Prevention

(CDC)

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The primary federal agency that conducts and supports public health activities in the United States.

The CDC is part of the US Department of health and human services.

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Designated Officer

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The individual in the department who is charged with the responsibility of managing exposures and infection control issues.

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration

(OSHA)

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Federal regulatory compliance agency that develops, publishers, and enforces guidelines concerning safety in the workplace.

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Advance Directive

(DNR Orders)

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Written documentation that specifies medical treatments for competent patients should those patients become unable to make decisions.

Also called “living wills” or “health care directives”.

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Algor Mortis

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The cooling of the body after death until it matches the ambient temperature.

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Applied Ethics

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The manner in which principles of ethics are incorporated into professional conduct.

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Assault

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Unlawfully placing a patient/person in fear of bodily harm.

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Battery

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Unlawfully touching a patient/person or providing emergency care without consent.

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Bioethics

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The study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care.

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Breach of Confidentiality

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Disclosure of information without proper authorization.

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Compensatory Damages

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Damages awarded in a civil lawsuit that’s are intended to restore the plaintiff to the same condition that he/she was in prior to the incident.

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Competent

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Able to make rational decisions about personal well-being.

EMT-P (0) Introduction Into EMS (25 decks)

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