Medicolegal Ethics
Safety, Wellness, and Working Health
EMS Systems
Communication!
Medical Terminology
100
Unlike expressed consent (verbal informed consent) this refers to a situation in which a reasonable conscious person would request assistance if they were able to do so.
Implied Consent
100
What is the order of priority for safety at a scene?
Yourself
Your partner
Your patient
bystanders
100
List the levels of EMS provider from lowest to highest in the state of indiana.
EMR
EMT
AEMT
Paramedic
100
This is a record (paper or electronic) that must be completed every time you make patient contact.
Documentation, PCR, or Patient Care Report.
100
If a body part or condition is identical on both sides of the midline it is considered ____________
Bilateral
200
HIPAA is the abbreviation for what?
(HIPPA is the abbreviation for nothing, and should never be used. Ever.)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
200
Name 2 forms of PPE you should use at every scene in which you make patient contact
Gloves, mask
200
Medical decisions which are based on well conducted research, how treatment and procedures are decided on in EMS.
Evidence Based Medicine
200
This is the transfer of pertinent info regarding the patient, their condition, treatments you have made, and a transfer of their care to another provider of equal or higher level.
Handoff or Handover
200
This is the stem of a medical term and conveys the core meaning
Root
300
Name 3 definitive signs of death
Obvious mortal damage (decapitation, quartering, etc)
Dependent lividity
Rigor Mortis
Algor Mortis
Putrefaction (Decomp)
300
This terms refers to a beneficial response to a stressor
Eustress
300
The _______ of 1990 protects people who have a disability from being denied access to programs and services provided by state and local governments (among other things)
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
300
When you build a relationship with a patient based on trust it is called a
Rapport
300
If a patient is found lying face down they are _____
Prone
400
What are the 4 requirements to prove negligience?
Duty, Breach of Duty, Damages, and Causation
400
This type of treatment/procedure greatly increases you risk of infection/spread of pathogens by droplet. CPR, Endotracheal Intubation, and Nebulizer treatments are examples of this
Aerosol Generating Procedure
400
The overarching guidelines for what skills each level of EMS provider should be able to accomplish.
National EMS Scope of Practice Model
400
A set of documents written by your medical director that details certain treatments, interventions, and responses you may perform for patients based on their symptoms.
Standing orders or protocol
400
If a patient's heart rate is 130 they are considered _____
Tachycardic
500
When an EMS system or EMS provider is held liable for damages even if a plaintiff cannot demonstrate how an injury occurred it is called
Res Ipsa Loquitur
500
This is a process that confronts responses to critical incidents and defuses them
Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
500
This process helps us determine how well we are performing to reach our goal of the best possible patient care, and how we may improve.
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
500
VHF Frequencies transmit between 30 and 300mhz (divided into high and low bands). What frequencies are used in UHF transmission?
300-3000 mhz
500
The 4 components of a medical term are_____, ______, ______, and __________.
Root, Prefix, Suffix, combining vowel