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47 Cards in this Set
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Duty to perform, damages (harm), and proximate cause are all elements needed to be found |
guilty of neglect. The final element needed is: Breech of duty |
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Negligence |
Duty to act, Breech of Duty, Proximate Cause, Damages or harm; intention NOT needed |
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Legal document that indicates end of life requests regarding resuscitation |
DNR |
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Greatest threat for false imprisonment |
Psychiatric patients |
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Emergency with a minor without parents, the medic should |
assume implied consent and begin care |
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Granting of privileges by doctors to medics to perform perform skills |
delegation of authority |
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malpractice term where action caused direct injury to pt |
proximate cause |
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health care decision designated to another |
Durable Power of Attorney |
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Labor and negligence law |
tort law |
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malicious writing |
libel |
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malicious spoken terms |
slander |
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standards governing group of people or profession |
ethics |
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Reciprocity |
Recognizing comparable standards set forth from another agency |
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Who are ethical standards developed for? |
The patient |
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indirect medical control |
standing orders, traumas with multiple GSW, unconscious = implied consent |
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Legal refusal must |
Refusal that is INFORMED refusal |
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OSHA |
MSDS must be on site where hazardous materials are stored
safety and occupational hazards |
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If medic charged with negligence |
defendant |
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directly causes harm or injury |
proximate cause in negligence case |
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Error; forgot drug dose AFTER completing PCR |
add a dated signed addendum = already handed to ER |
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Error, wrote wrong dose, non-completed PCR |
cross out with one line, initial, date incorrect info and add correct info at bottom of report = not already handed to ER |
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Best protection for paramedic |
thorough documentation |
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Assessment of call begins at |
dispatch |
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Ambulance crashes, court will try to prove |
lack of due regard |
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Scenario: rescuer found negligent |
do not have to prove it happened away from medical facility |
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organization that established the qualifications for EMS personnel on a national basis |
National Registry for EMTs |
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Dyspnea |
difficult or painful breathing |
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The Hering- Breur Reflex |
prevents overexpansion of lungs |
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hypoxia |
decreased oxygen in the lungs |
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hypoxemia |
decreased partial pressure of O2 in the blood |
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Normal stimulus to breathe |
increased PACO2, Arterial |
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COPD |
Aminophylline/albuterol/bronkosol NOT BENADRYL-COPD not an allergic reaction |
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skin pallor |
vasoconstriction causes this condition |
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upper airway sound with inspiratory difficulty |
stridor |
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wheezing |
whistle sound on inspiration (lower a/w) constriction |
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whistling sounds on exhalation |
consider asthmatic bronchiolitis |
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rhonci |
fluid/mucous in LARGE a/w |
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Croup |
stridor at night w/seal bark cough |
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Rales |
usually heard in the lower airway (alveoli) fluid |
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most common a/w obstruction |
tongue (Generally sonorous) |
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Poor airway compliance is seen in |
sucking chest wounds/ tension pneumo/ flail chest NOT pleurisy |
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tension pneumothorax treatment |
O2, decompress, transport, IV en route |
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one of the major purposes of PULMONARY VENTILATION |
able to retain or eliminate CO2 |
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one of the major advantages of RESP |
to increase absorption of O2 by the cells |
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Pulmonary Emboli s/s |
Dyspnea/SOB/pleuritic pain/ tachycardia |
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Pulmonary Emboli |
No JVD |
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Anaphylaxis |
Classic sign is hypotension |
