Quiz Answers Flashcards
What is the purpose of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000?
Provides a framework for safeguarding the welfare and managing the finances of adults who lack capacity due to mental disorder or inability to communicate
What is a power of attorney?
A person who is nominated whilst an individual still has capacity who is subsequently legally appointed by a court to make decisions on the behalf of that individual when they lose capacity
What does the term capacity relate to?
Acting
Making decisions
Communicating decisions
Understanding decisions
Retaining the memory of decisions
Who can provide a Section 47, Adults with Incapacity Certificate fir the provisions of dental treatment?
A doctor who has just graduated
If a mother and brother hold joint welfare guardianship, who should you speak to to gain consent for treatment?
They have equal importance but consent is only required from one of them
What are the 5 principles of the Adult’s with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000?
Least restrictive option
Take account of the wishes of the adult
Benefit
Encourage the person to use existing skills and develop new skills
Consultation with relevant others
What is a welfare guardian?
A person who is legally appointed by the courts to make the decisions on behalf of a person who lacks capacity
In an emergency, what procedure can you perform to act in the best interest of a patient within an Adult’s with Incapacity, Section 47 Cetificate?
Extract a tooth with a periapical periodontitis
When can you provide emergency treatment without having a Section 47 Adults with Incapacity Certificate in place?
Spreading dental infection
Describe consultation with the relevant others?
Take account the views of others with an interest in the person’s welfare. The Act lists those who should be consulted whenever practicable and reasonable
Describe the principle of benefit
Any action or decision taken must benefit the person and only be taken when that benefit cannot reasonably be achieved without it
Describe the principle of taking account of the wishes of the person
Account must be taken of the present and past wishes and feelings of the person, as far as this may be ascertained
Describe the principle of the least restrictive option
Any action or decision taken should be the minimum necessary to achieve the purpose. It should be the option that restricts the person’s freedom as little as possible
Haemophilia A is a deficiency in which factor?
VIII
Haemophilia B is a deficiency in which factor?
IX
Apixaban inhibits which factor?
Factor Xa
A person with moderate haemophilia has what percentage of normal factor in their blood?
1-5%
What product is used in VW disease to manage bleeding?
Factor VIII Concentrate
What anaesthetic is safest to use for someone with advanced liver disease?
Articaine
What analgesic should be recommended for someone with liver cirrhosis?
Paracetamol
What clotting factors are produced in the liver?
I, II, VII, IX, X and XI
Other than clotting factors, what product of the liver is essential in achieving haemostasis?
Thrombopoietin
What is the minimum UKELD score for an individual to be placed on the liver transplant list?
49
Where is the Dane particle found?
Those with Hepatitis B
What can Halothane be responsible for?
Drug induced Hepatitis
What is Sobosbuvir used to treat?
Hepatitis C
What is primary malignancy of the liver called?
Hepatocellular carcinoma
What liver disease is strongly associated with obesity and type II diabetes?
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
What liver disease has circular RNA?
Hepatitis D
The faeco-oral route is the main route of transmission for which liver disease?
Hepatitis A
When is an arteriovenous fistula provided?
Above the wrist for haemodialysis
Which anticoagulant is commonly used in the management of patients who require renal dialysis?
Heparin
What oral medicine conditions are considered variations or normal anatomy?
Black hairy tongue
Geographic tongue
What are common causes of xerostomia in older people?
Head and neck radiotherapy
Diuretics
Sjögren’s syndrome
Dehydration
NOT chemotherapy
