Legal & Ethical
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
abandonment
The patient is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that they would want treatment.
implied consent
Awareness that unseen life-threatening injuries may exist when determining the mechanism of injury.
index of suspicion
The 5 definitive signs of death.
* obious mortal damage
* dependent lividity
*rigor mortis
* algor mortis
* putrefaction (decomposition)
All forms of negligence come under the general category known as.
torts