Paramedic: Medical and Legal Operations
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| show | EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedic
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| What is the highest level of EMS care? | show 🗑
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| A physician who is legally responsible for all clinical and patient care aspects of the system | show 🗑
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| show | Tiered Responses
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| What publication changed EMS in 1966? | show 🗑
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| show | Online Medical Direction
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| show | Offline Medical Direction
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| Treatment procedures preauthorized by a medical director | show 🗑
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| show | Protocols
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| show | Empathy
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| A process of occupational regulation | show 🗑
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| show | Certification
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| The process by which an agency grants automatic certification or licensure to an individual who has comparable certification or licensure from another agency | show 🗑
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| When an EMS provider first arrives on scene they must determine the scene safety, number of patients, the severity of illnesses/injuries based on the MOI or NOI, and request additional or specialized services if needed. | show 🗑
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| A trauma facility that serves as a regional resource trauma center; tertiary care facility for trauma care system; university-based teaching hospital | show 🗑
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| show | Level II Trauma Facility
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| A trauma facility that serves communities that do not have immediate access to a Level 1 or 2 institution | show 🗑
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| show | Level IV Trauma Facility
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| To place the interest of the patient or team ahead of your own interests; listen to others, respect others’ opinions, be open-minded and flexible | show 🗑
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| Defending and protecting a patient and acting in their best interest | show 🗑
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| show | Gloves
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| show | Masks/Protective Eye Wear
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| Wear this when you come in contact with a patient with either confirmed or suspected TB | show 🗑
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| Wear this to protect against splashes or other contaminants that can get on clothing | show 🗑
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| Used when performing CPR; disposable and only use once | show 🗑
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| show | Hand Washing Supplies
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| show | Disinfection
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| show | Sterilization
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| What are the Stages of the Grieving Process? | show 🗑
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| show | Stress
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| What are the Stages of Stress? | show 🗑
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| During the ___ stage of stress the body goes into “fight-or-flight” mode to defend itself | show 🗑
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| show | Resistance
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| Prolonged exposure to the same stressors leads to ___ of an individual’s ability to resist and adapt; susceptibility to physical and psychological ailments increases | show 🗑
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| show | Burnout
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| Anxiety disorder that develops following exposure to traumatic events | show 🗑
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| show | Liability
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| show | Civil Law
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| show | Tort
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| A branch of civil law; deals with wrongs committed by one individual against another (rather than against society) | show 🗑
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| An area of law in which the federal, state, or local government will prosecute an individual on behalf of society for violating laws meant to protect society | show 🗑
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| show | Scope of Practice
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| Termination of care without providing for the appropriate continuation of care while it is still needed and desired by the patient | show 🗑
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| A patient who is transported without consent or is restrained without proper justification or authority | show 🗑
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| Consent given based on a full disclosure of information; the patient has been informed of the treatment, risks, and benefits of any treatments performed | show 🗑
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| show | Expressed Consent
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| A patient that is a minor or is mentally, physically, or emotionally unable to grant consent and requires emergency intervention would be treated under this "emergency doctrine" | show 🗑
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| A patient without sound judgement, under law enforcement custody, or under court ordered treatment would be treated under this type of consent | show 🗑
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| show | Minor
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| A minor that is married, a parent, pregnant, a member of the armed forces, or financially independent and living away from home | show 🗑
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| show | Refusal
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| Failure to provide the same care that a person with similar training would provide in the same or a similar situation | show 🗑
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| What are the 4 parts of Negligence? | show 🗑
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| show | Actual Damages
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| A formal contractual or informal legal obligation to provide care | show 🗑
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| show | Breach of Duty
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| show | Proximate Cause
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| Provides immunity to people who assist at the scene of a medical emergency (depends on state; can expand to both paid and volunteer prehospital personnel) | show 🗑
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| show | Restraint Asphyxia (positional asphyxia)
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| A condition that may result from abuse of stimulant drugs, typically presenting as a triad of effects: delirium, psychomotor agitation, and physiologic excitation | show 🗑
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| Enhances the confidentiality of medical records and mandates that EMS personnel be educated as to the requirements of the law; provides methods to ensure that EMS personnel who have been exposed to a communicable disease are notified in a timely manner | show 🗑
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| show | Defamation
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| The act of injuring a person’s character, name, or reputation by false or malicious statements spoken with malicious intent or reckless disregard for the falsity of those statements | show 🗑
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| The act of injuring a person’s character, name, or reputation by false statements made in writing or through mass media with malicious intent or reckless disregard for the falsity of those statements | show 🗑
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| show | Assault
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| Performing an act physically when someone stated they did not want it | show 🗑
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| show | Reasonable Force
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| show | Advance Directive
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| A legal document, usually signed by the patient and their physician, that indicates to medical personnel which, if any, life-sustaining measures should be taken when the patient's heart and respiratory functions have ceased | show 🗑
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| A legal document that allows a person to specify the kinds of medical treatment they wish to receive, should the need arise | show 🗑
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| An addition or supplement to the original report | show 🗑
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| Principle of law that prohibits the release of medical or other personal information about a patient without the patient's consent | show 🗑
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| Requires healthcare systems to create a notification system to provide info and assistance when an exposure occurs; allows medics access to patient's medical records after possible exposure to an infectious disease | show 🗑
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| show | Morals
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| The rules or standards that govern the conduct of members of a particular group or profession | show 🗑
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| show | Beneficence
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| show | The National Association of EMT’s
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| show | Autonomy
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| Properly documenting patient care from the initial response to the transfer of patient care to the hospital emergency department staff | show 🗑
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| Conveying information in a language that is suited for the situation (10-codes) | show 🗑
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| Deciphering the “coded” message received | show 🗑
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| show | Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
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| show | Ultrahigh Frequency
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| show | Very High Frequency
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| The most basic communications system that transmits and receives on the same frequency and cannot do both simultaneously | show 🗑
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| show | Duplex
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| Systems that are the same as duplex systems with the additional capability of transmitting voice and data simultaneously | show 🗑
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| A communications system that pools all frequencies and routes transmissions to the next available frequency | show 🗑
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| show | Signs
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| A subjective complaint: what the patient is experiencing and, possibly, can describe | show 🗑
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| show | Associated Symptoms
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| show | Pertinent Negatives
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| What you believe to be your patient's problem; your impression | show 🗑
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| What the patient feels and their history; chief complaints, history of present illness, past history, current health status, review of systems | show 🗑
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| Your general impression and any data you gather through inspection, palpation, auscultation, percussion, and diagnostic testing | show 🗑
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