EMR Chapter 4 Medical, Legal, Ethical Issues

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  1. 5. Consent to receive emergency medical care that is assumed because the individual is unconscious, underage, or so badly injured or ill that he or she cannot respond.
  2. 7. The manner in which an individual must act or behave when giving care.
  3. 11. Failure of the emergency medical responder to continue emergency medical treatment until relieved by someone with the same or a higher level of training.
  4. 13. An emergency medical responder’s legal responsibility to respond quickly to an emergency scene and provide medical care (within the limits of training and available equipment).
  5. 14. A process in which a person, institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical patient care.
  6. 16. Laws that encourage citizens to voluntarily help an injured or suddenly ill person by minimizing the liability for any errors or omissions in providing good faith emergency care.
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  1. 1. A legal document that indicates what a person wants done if he or she cannot make his or her own medical decisions, including living wills, durable powers of attorney for health care, and do not resuscitate orders.
  2. 2. A legal document that allows a patient to designate another person to make medical decisions for him or her if the patient is unable to make his or her own treatment decisions.
  3. 3. Deviation from the accepted standard of care resulting in further injury to the patient.
  4. 4. A legal document that states the types of medical care a person wants or wants withheld if he or she is unable to make his or her own treatment decisions. Living wills may include do not resuscitate orders.
  5. 6. A written request giving permission to medical personnel not to attempt resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest.
  6. 8. Able to make rational decisions about personal well-being.
  7. 9. Blood settling to the lowest point of the body after death, causing discoloration of the skin.
  8. 10. In the context of emergency medical services, permission to provide care.
  9. 12. Written documents, signed by the emergency medical service system’s medical director, that outline specific directions, permissions, and sometimes prohibitions regarding patient care; also called protocols.
  10. 15. Consent actually given by a person, either verbally or nonverbally, authorizing the emergency medical responder to provide care or transportation.