cpr & first aid Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is the last step someone can do to control bleeding?
Apply tourniquet
Define HIPAA
Health insurance portability accountability act
A golden rule of medicine is to bill a patient’s insurance as much as you can
False
CPR is started when a person has
No pulse and has stopped breathing
A stable conscious person comes into your medical office stating they accidentally poisoned their self. What is a first priority?
Call poison control
The _____ and _____ can be fine for violating HIPAA
Employee and employer
severe medication allergy can be a cause of what?
Anaphylaxis
While performing CPR you accidentally break a rib, what do you do?
Keep going
not safeguarding or protecting PHI, stealing patient records, unauthorized access to PHI are all what?
HIPAA violations
proper grooming, being to work on time, not chewing gum, arriving, and leaving for brakes on time are all what?
Elements of professionalism and standards
signs of a fracture include what?
Pain and swelling in the area
according to HIPAA, gender, medical record number and birth, are all considered what?
Protected health information or PHI
CPR saves every life every time it’s done
False less than 10% of the time
The patient comes into your medical office, complaining of shortness of breath, jaw, and arm pain with chest pain, what are these signs of?
heart attack
A 36-year-old patient under conservatorship and institutionalized can or cannot give legal consent?
Cannot
severe dehydration, excessive bleeding, and possible death or all signs of what?
Shock
AED can be used by whom?
Any person, even those with basic CPR certification
This requires 911 along with first aid and is the most serious of seizures
Grand mal
What bleeding is flowing and dark red?
venous bleeding
