Legal Eagles
An obligation to provide care to a patient
What is Duty to Act?
It's the medication, route and dose you'd give under standing orders to a person with chest pain.
What is Aspirin 324mg, oral?
It's a more common sign of myocardial infarction in a female patient.
What is back pain (also accept fatigue, SOB)?
It's a device used to keep a coronary artery open to avoid repeated MI.
What is a stent?
This is found in the neck and controls rate of metabolism, growth, and development.
What is the Thyroid gland?
Permission given by adults who are of legal age and mentally competent to make a rational decision in regard to their medical well-being.
What is Expressed consent?
It's the medication, route and dose you'd give with medical control orders to a person with chest pain.
What is Nitroglycerin 0.4mg sublingual?
It's when chest pain moves from the area of origin.
It's a device used to treat patients who's heart is failing while they wait for a transplant.
What is a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)?
This gland is also found in the neck and Regulates calcium and phosphorous in bones.
What is the Parathyroid?
Lists of steps, such as assessment and interventions, to be taken in different situations that are developed by the Medical Director of an EMS system.
What are Protocols?
It's the medication you would give if a patient's oxygen saturation were 90%.
What is oxygen?
It's the most common location of cardiac chest pain.
What is central, sub-sternal pain?
It's an electrical device placed in the body to shock a patient who might have a fatal arrhythmia.
What is a Pacemaker/Internal Cardiac Defibrillator (ICD)?
These are on the kidneys and produce epinephrine.
What are the adrenal glands?
You can avoid patient abandonment by making sure you transfer care to...
What is someone of equal of higher medical authority?
It's the medication, dose and route you would administer to a heroin overdose with respiratory depression.
What is Narcan, 2-4 mg intranasal?
It's a common medication patients may have that would indicate they have a history of CHF.
What is Lasix? (diuretic)
It's how we generally treat a patient with MI at the hospital to re-open their blocked coronary artery.
What is angioplasty (Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty-PTCA)?
Glands secrete these substances which travel through the blood to send messages to activate and deactivate bodily functions.
What are hormones?
Laws that protect a person who can't care for an infant and drops them off at a fire station.
What are Safe Haven Laws?
*DAILY DOUBLE*
It's the device you would use to treat a patient with severe CHF, and the starting setting.
What is CPAP with 5-10 of PEEP?
It's the sign people might unknowingly make associated with cardiac chest pain that is characterized by holding a closed fist over their sternum.
What is Levine's Sign?
It's the surgery that re-opens coronary arteries when they are too blocked for PTCA or there are too many blockages.
What is Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery?
These glands function as filters, trapping viruses, bacteria and other causes of illnesses before they can infect other parts of your body.
What are Lymph nodes/glands?