test 1 Flashcards
Abandonment
Failure to transfer patient to competent professional
Assault
Willful threat to inflict harm on patient
Battery
act of touching a patient unlawfully without consent
Negligence
EMT breaches their duty to act or deviated from standard of care
Good Samaritan Laws
Protects a person who is not being paid for their services for liability for acts performed in good faith unless those act constitute gross negligence
Duty to Act
legal obligation to provide service while on duty
Scope Of Practice
actions and care that EMT’s are legally allowed to perform
Informed/ Expressed Consent
Conscious, rational patient that consents to treatment
Implied Consent
patient that is unresponsive, disoriented, or and ill/injured minor would consent to care if conscious and rational
Involuntary Consent
cannot refuse care, mentally incompetent adult or person in custody
DNR
must be signed by patient and physician and presented
Emancipated Minor
married, pregnant/ parent, armed forces, financially independent, emancipated by court
Against Medical Advise (AMA)
patient that is competent to refuse care (ex: person, place, time, and event)
5150
Only physician and law enforcement can put a patient on hold. Person is danger to themselves/ others and or is gravely disabled
Superior Inferior Vena Cava
How blood from the body enters the heart
Right atrium
Upper section of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood
Tricuspid Valve
Blood from the right atrium passes through to reach the right ventricle
Right venticle
Lower half of the heart
Pulmonic valve
Opening to the pulmonary artery
Pulmonary artery
Pushes deoxygenated blood to the lungs
Lungs (aveoli)
Tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs
Pulmonary vein
Direct the newly oxygenated blood back to the heart from the lungs
left artium
Receives the oxygenated blood from the lungs
bicuspid valve
Connects the left atrium to the left ventricle, allows the blood to flow from atrium to ventricle
left ventricle
Strongest section of the heart. Pushes oxygenated blood to the whole body
Aortic valve
Opening to the aorta
Aorta
Main artery of the body
Arteries
Carries blood away from the heart
arterioles
Small kind of arteries, carry blood from arteries into the capillaries. Arteries get smaller further away from the heart
capillaries
Where the exchange of nutrients, gasses, and waste occurs. Connects arterioles to venules (small blood vessels)
venules
Smallest branch of veins, distal end of capillaries
veins
Carry blood back to the heart
coronary arteries
Supply the heart with blood
diastole
Heart muscles are relaxed, allowing for it to fill with blood