Signs of Death
Stiffening of the body.
What is rigor mortis?
Unlawfully touching a person.
What is battery?
Child legally considered as an adult.
What is emancipated minor?
The way an infectious disease is spread.
What is transmission?
Civil wrongs.
What are torts?
Decomposition of the body or other organic material.
What is putrefaction?
Individual's responsibility to provide patient care.
What is the duty to act?
Assumption on behalf of a person unable to give consent that he or she would have done so.
What is implied consent?
Occurs when an organism is moved from one person to another.
What is direct contact?
Seizing, confining, abducting, or carrying away of a person by force.
What is kidnapping?
Blood settling to the lowest point of the body.
What is dependent lividity?
Failure to provide standard of care.
What is negligence?
Applied when dealing with mentally incompetent patient.
What is involuntary consent?
Involves the spread of infection from the patient with an infection to another person through an inanimate object.
What is indirect contact?
Disclosure of information without proper authorization.
What is breach of confidentiality?
Signs of death that includes lowered body temperature, absence of chest rise/fall, pupils nonreactive, lack of carotid pulse, nonreactive pupils, no deep tendon or corneal reflex, no systolic blood pressure.
What is presumptive?
Unlawfully placing a person in fear of immediate bodily harm.
What is assault?
Patient verbally or otherwise acknowledges that he/she want you to provide care or transport.
What is expressed consent?
Virus transferred through sexual intercourse.
What is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
Legal order written either in the hospital or on a legal form to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation or advanced cardiac life support.
What is a do not resuscitate order?
Signs of death that includes obvious mortal damage, dependent lividity, rigor mortis, putrefaction.
What is definitive?
Unilateral termination of care.
What is abandonment?
Right of patient to make decisions regarding his/her health.
What is patient autonomy?
Microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans.
What are bloodborne pathogens?
Law principle that claims, when reasonably helping another person, you should not be liable for errors and omissions that are made in giving good faith emergency care.
What are Good Samaritan laws?