Medical Legal
Can be held legally responsible if acting with extreme carelessness or intent to cause harm
Liable
Rule that looks at what is both right and wrong
Ethics
Equal Round and Reactive to Light
PERRL
How often should you reassess a critically ill patient
3 to 5 min
A drug or substance that binds to a receptor inside a cell or on its surface and causes the same action as the substance that normally binds to the receptor.
Agonist
Intent to do bodily harm
Assault
Permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences
Informed Consent
Ongoing efforts to achieve measurable improvements
CQI
written medical protocol in which a medical director determines in advance the medical criteria that must be met before administering controlled substances to individuals in need of emergency medical services.
Standing Order
An undesired effect of a drug or other type of treatment
Adverse Effect
Communicate false information about a person
Defamation
Law to protect patient health information
HIPPA
Supportive crisis intervention process
CISD
Used in urgent or emergent scenarios in which immediate actions must be taken to support patient.
Standing Orders
The activity of drugs in the body over a period of time, including the processes by which drugs are absorbed, distributed in the body, localized in the tissues, and excreted
pharmacokinetics.
To defame in verbal form
Slander
failure to meet the legal duty a paramedic owes to a patient
Negligence
Unit placed in the body to reset the heart if it goes into ventricular fibrillation
AICD
Used pro-actively by providers to support likely/potential patient care circumstances in which a pre-determined response can be identified.
Protocols
Those drugs which are administered into the human body by injection under or through one or more layers of skin or mucous membrane.
Parenteral solution
Looks at what is wrong
Law
3 Things needed to prove Negligence
1. Duty to Act
2. Breech of Duty
3. Damages Occured
appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration
APGAR
The number to vitals needed to assess trends and reassess whether the patient's condition is stabilizing, getting better, or getting worse.
3
The diffusion or accumulation (in a tissue or cells) of foreign substances in amounts excess of the normal. The material collected in those tissues or cells is called
Infiltrate