First Aid Step 2: Ethics

Front 1

True or false: Once a pt signs a statement giving concesnt, they must continue w/ the treatment.

Back 1

False. Exceptions include emergency situations and pts without decision making capacity

Front 2

A 15 year old pregnant girl reuires hospitalization for pre-eclampsia. Is parental consent required?

Back 2

No. Parental consent is not necessary for the medical treatment of a minor if she is pregnant.

Front 3

A doctor refers a patient for an MRI at a facility he/she owns.

Back 3

Conflict of interest

Front 4

Involuntary psych hospitalization can be undertake for which 3 reasons

Back 4

Danger to self, danger to others, or unable to care for own basic needs

Front 5

True or False: Withrawing a nonbeneficial treatment is ethically similar to withholding a nonindicated one.

Back 5

True

Front 6

When can a physician refuse to continue treating a pt on the grounds of futility?

Back 6

When there is no rationale for treatment, maximal intervention is failing, a given intervention has already failed, and treatment will not achieve the goals of care.

Front 7

Conditions in which confidentiality must be overridden

Back 7

Real threat of harm to third party; SI; certain contagious diseases; elder and child abuse

Front 8

Involuntary commitment or isolation for medical treatment may be undertaken for what reason

Back 8

When treatment noncompliance represents a serious danger to public health

Front 9

A 10 y.o. child presents in status epilepticus, but her parents refuse to treat on the grounds of their religious beliefs. What do you do?

Back 9

Treat, b/c diease represents an immediate threat to the childs life. Then seek a court order.

Front 10

A son asks that his mother not be told about her newly dx'd cancer. What do you do?

Back 10

A physician can withhold information from a pt only in rare cases of therapeutic privilege or if the pt reuests not to be tol. A pts family cannot require the physician to withold information to the pt