The Age of Consent
This is the age that one can give legal consent
What is 18 years old?
This document that specifies what a person would like to be done if he or she becomes unable to make his or her own medical decisions. There are three main types.
What is an advanced directive
Once you have started treatment, you must continue it until a person who has at least as much training arrives and takes over. If not, you can be charged with this.
What is abandonment?
This accounts for the majority of communication
What is non-verbal communication?
The ongoing, coordinated process where a patient and their medical team work together to deliver consistent, connected healthcare over time. Noting things like medication administration and vitals in your documentation helps ensure this.
What is continuity of care?
Also acceptable "Continuum of care"
This type of consent is assumed if someone needs lifesaving care but cannot communicate that due to their emergency situation.
What is implied consent?
This legal document states the types of medical care the person wants or wants withheld if he or she is unable to make treatment decisions
What is a living will?
EMS can declare a patient this in the field, but only a physician, coroner, or medical examiner can legally certify this.
What is death?
This is the 1996 Federal law that, in part, states that patient private information must be kept private.
What is HIPAA?
⚬Time incident was reported to 911
⚬Time of dispatch
⚬Time of arrival at patient’s location
⚬Time patient was transported from incident location
⚬Time patient arrived at destination (e.g., hospital, aid station)
⚬Time patient care was transferred to more advanced providers
⚬Patient’s chief complaint
⚬Patient’s vital signs
⚬Patient’s demographics
⚬Age, gender, race, weight
What is the minimum data set
This is given when a patient is fully educated on the benefits and possible dangers of a given intervention and they positively assent to that intervention.
What is informed consent?
This type of document names someone else as your legal representative to make medical decisions on your behalf if you become unable.
What is a medical Power of Attorney?
To be charged with this, these four conditions must be present:
⚬Duty to act
⚬Breach of duty
⚬Resulting injuries
⚬Proximate cause
What is negligence?
This communication can be difficult, but if we are concerned a patient may harm themselves we need to ask these two questions.
Have you thought about harming yourself? Do you have a plan to do so?
A common name for documentation in the EMS system
What is a run report?
also acceptable "What is a prehospital care report?" or "What is a Patient Care Report (PCR)?"
This is given when a patient positively assents (verbally or physically) to a treatment intervention regardless of a full explanation.
What is expressed consent?
This type of document states that a patient has legally opted out of receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
What is a DNR order?
This law may protect you from lawsuit if you help someone medically off duty.
What is the Good Samaritan Act?
Aside from raising the volume of your voice, speaking slower, and making sure patient's can see your face as you speak, this is another excellent method to be better heard by people with age related hearing loss.
What is deepening the voice?
or: speaking in a lower tone/register.
Information on a patient care report that includes details about the call itself is called
What is Run Data?
This type of medical intervention can legally be provided to children without parental consent in all 50 states.
What is lifesaving emergency care?
What are MOLST and POLST?
These 3 states have laws that everyone has a responsibility to report an emergency situation if it does not cause danger to the reporter.
What are Vermont, Minnesota, and Rhode Island?
This is the term for ECG data transmitted from an ambulance or other remote location to monitor banks.
What is telemetry?
These acronyms are a great way to get all of your important patient history and pain information in the field.
What are SAMPLE and OPQRST?