I Need Your Permission...
The permission to render care...
What is consent?
Contains a section on patient privacy, strengthens privacy laws, and safeguards pt confidentiality...
What is HIPAA?
Specifies treatment should the pt become unconscious or unable to make decisions...
What are advanced directives?
Unresponsive to painful stimuli, lack of carotid pulse or heartbeat, absence of breath sounds, no deep tendon or corneal reflexes, profound cyanosis, and lowered/decreased body temperature...
What are presumptive signs of death?
The manner in which you must act or behave as an EMT...
What are the standards of care?
The pt acknowledges s/he wants you to provide care and transport...
What is expressed consent?
Unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient's consent and/or making provisions for continuation of care...
What is abandonment?
An advanced directive that gives permission not to resuscitate...
What is a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)?
A body in parts or pieces...
What is decapitation?
The process by which an individual, institution, or program is evaluated and recognized as meeting standards to ensure safe and ethical care...
What is certification?
Applies to pts whom are either unconscious or otherwise incapable of making an informed decision...
What is implied consent?
Unlawfully placing a person in fear of immediate bodily harm...
What is assault?
Surrogates (relatives or friends) that make decisions for pts...
What are Durable Power of Attorneys for Health Care (DPOA-HC)?
What are proxies?
Blood that settles in the lowest parts of the body...
What is dependent lividity?
Process by which a competent authority, usually the state, grants permission to practice a job, trade, or profession...
What is licensure?
Applies to pts who are either mentally ill, experiencing behavioral crises, or is developmentally delayed...
What is involuntary consent?
The philosophy of right and wrong, moral duties, and ideal professional behavior...
What is ethics?
The two materials on which DNR bracelets are made of (in Wisconsin)...
What is plastic and metal?
This happens to the body 2-12 hours post-mortem and involves the stiffening of body parts...
What is rigor mortis?
Process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a particular profession, or to function as an organization...
What is credentialing?
Teachers and school officials may act in place of parents...
What is In Loco Parentis?
Conduct that constitutes willful or reckless disregard...
What is gross negligence?
Describes acceptable interventions for the pt and must be signed by an authorized medical provider...
What is Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) or Medical Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment (MOLST)?
This happens to the body 40-96 hours post-mortem and involves body decomposition...
What is putrefaction?
These are established by...
What is local custom, law, professional/institutional standards, or textbooks?