Medical-Legal
Based on individual and community conduct, standards imposed by force of law, and professional or institutional standards.
What is standard of conduct?
The point farthest away from the body or attaching point
What is distal?
Quadrant where the spleen is located.
What is the left, upper quadrant.
The bluish, gray skin coloring resulting from asphyxia.
What is cyanosis?
Used to check for pulselessness on an unconscious, adult patient.
What is the carotid pulse?
There was a duty to act, you acted above your standard of care, and the patient suffered further injury.
What is gross negligence?
The back surface of the body.
What is posterior?
Consists of the heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries.
What is the circulatory system?
Pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and relative skin temperature.
What are vital signs?
The first action that an EMT would take when coming upon an unconscious person.
What is determine responsiveness?
Leaving a patient before turning him or her over to someone of the same or higher level of care.
What is abandonment?
*DAILY DOUBLE*
The topographical term meaning towards the feet.
What is inferior?
The system responsible for gas exchange.
What is the respiratory system?
What the patient tells you he or she is feeling.
What is a symptom?
When breathing and heart action stops.
What is cardiac arrest?
Allows you to treat an unconscious patient.
What is implied consent?
Movement towards the midline.
What is adduction?
The system responsible for taking oxygen to the body tissues.
What is the circulatory system.
60 to 100 times per minute.
What is the average pulse rate for an adult?
First action to take when a patient is not breathing.
What is give two breaths?
Protects the emergency care provider from civil law suits
What is the Good Samaritan Law.
The clavicles, scapula, and sternum.
What are the parts of the thorax (thoracic cavity)?
The organ responsible for removing liquid wastes.
What is the kidney?
12 to 20 times per minute.
What is the average respiratory rate for an adult?
From birth to one year of age.
What is an infant?