Med Legal
When the EMT or an EMS system is held liable even when the plaintiff is unable to clearly demonstrate how an injury occurred.
Res ipsa Loquitur
Nerve tissue that is continuous inferiorly with the spinal cord; serves as a conduction pathway for ascending and descending nerve tracts; coordinates heart rate, blood vessel diameter, breathing, swallowing, vomiting, coughing, and sneezing.
Medulla Oblongata
Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent.
Secondary prevention
The seizing, confining, abducting, or carrying away of a person by force, including transporting a competent adult for medical treatment without his or her consent.
Kidnapping
How many Kidneys does a normal patient have?
2
A code of conduct that can be defined by society, religion, or a person, affecting character, conduct, and conscience.
Morality
The part of the brain that is responsible for helping to regulate the level of consciousness
Midbrain
Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
Primary Prevention
Statutory provisions enacted by many states to protect citizens from liability for errors and omissions in giving good-faith emergency medical care, unless there is wanton, gross, or willful negligence.
Good Samaritan Laws
How many months have 28 days in them?
All
A person who is under the legal age in a given state but, because of other circumstances, is legally considered an adult.
Emancipated minor
The Breast bone is called what?
Federal legislation passed in 1996. Its main effect in EMS is in limiting availability of patients’ health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy.
HIPPA
Cooling of the body after death until it matches the ambient temperature.
Algor mortis
www. means what?
world wide web
Damages awarded in a civil lawsuit that are intended to restore the plaintiff to the same condition that he or she was in prior to the incident.
Compensatory Damages
Any portion of the airway that does contain air and cannot participate in gas exchange, such as the trachea and bronchi.
Dead Space
A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.
Emergency medical dispatcher
Permission to render care.
Consent
How many points did Michael Jordon score on his first NBA?
16
Most commonly defined by state law; outlines the care that the EMT is able to provide for the patient.
Scope of Practice
The thighbone; the longest and one of the strongest bones in the body.
Femur
An individual who has training in basic life support, including automated external defibrillation, use of a definitive airway adjunct, and assisting patients with certain medications.
EMT
Unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient’s consent and without making provisions for transferring care to another medical professional with the skills and training necessary to meet the needs of the patient.
abandonment
what comes down but never comes up?
Rain