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EMT-3 Legal Issues
Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scope of practice | actions and care that EMTs are legally allowed to perform by the state n which they are providing emergency medical care |
| Once you have begun to provide care... | You cannot leave the patient or it is called abandonment |
| Good Samaritan law | provides liability immunity for emergency scene acts done in good faith |
| standard of care | care expected from any trained EMT under similar circumstances |
| Good Samaratin Laws do not.... | prevent you from being sued, although it may provide you with some protection against losing the lawsuit if you performed to the standard |
| Medical Direction | Your legal right to function as an EMT is contingent upon medical direction |
| Expressed consent | must be obtained from a conscious, mentally competant adult before treatment is started |
| Implied consent | occurs when you assume that a patient who is unresponsive or who is not competant or who is unable to make a rational decision would consent to emergency care if he could |
| Involuntary consent | applied whe nyour dealing with a mentally incompetent patient or in custody of law enforcement or incarcerated |
| DNR (do not resuscitate order) | an advance directive, is a legal document or order that most often governs resuscitation issues only |
| What happens if family says they have a DNR but cannot find it? | Continue issuing care to the patient |
| Living will | more oftene used to cover more general health care issues, including the use of long-termlife support equipment such as ventilators and feeding tubes |
| durable power of attorney | aka health care proxy- designates person who is legally empowered to make health care decisions for the signer of the document if he is unable to do so for himself |
| POLST (Physician orders for life-sustaining treatment | used in patients with serious or terminal illness who aren't suspected of living longer than a year |
| If patient does not give consent and he is conscious and mentally capable, what happens next? | make sure he is informed of treatment and all potential risks and consequences of refusal, up to and including death |
| If patient is persistant and continues to refuse after asking and explaining the risk and treatment... | You must ask him to sign a release from liability form |
| p.60 |
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