EMT FINAL - MEDICAL Flashcards
(10 cards)
During which of the following situations would you LEAST likely have a duty to act?
a) When you stop to render care on your way to work
b) When a motor vehicle collision involves your emergency vehicle.
c) When you are paged to the scene while on call for a volunteer agency.
d) When you come across an accident driving home from your EMS shift.
d) When you come across an accident driving home from your EMS shift.
You are called to the scene of an unresponsive three year old. You explain the situation fully to the parents and ask them if you may transport the patient to the nearest hospital. The hospital has no pediatric specialist, but you believe this course of action is in the patient’s beat interest. Which type of consent have you requested?
Informed Consent
You are called to a residence where a neighbor found a child wandering around outside the residence next door. The child appears about two years of age, is only wearing a diaper and the weather is cold. This neighbor says she saw the mother drive away earlier, she assumed to take the older kids to school. The house is searched and no one else is home. Which of the following would be the most responsible action of EMS personnel on the scene.
a) Contact your supervisor
b) Contact and wait for police.
c) Take the child to the emergency department
d) Stay with the child until the mother comes back.
b) Contact and wait for the police.
Which of the following is true regarding advanced directives where a patient has chosen some interventions to be done, but have other things withheld.
a) These choices are usually financially driven.
b) The choices are most medically sounded.
c) These are usually invalid in a pre-hospital setting.
d) These differ from DNR orders as these patients have not terminal illness.
c) These are usually invalid in a pre-hospital setting.
The family of a patient has accused EMS provider of negligence for failing to save their teenage son. Which are the CONDITIONS that must be present for this legal claim to be successful?
- Duty
- Breach of duty
- Damages
- Causation or Proximate Causation
During your treatment of a patient, you perform a treatment incorrectly. For which of the four parts of a negligence case are you potentially guilty?
Breach of Duty (Failure to meet the standard of care)
What is the most practical way to prevent cross contamination of patient?
a) Use disposable equipment whenever possible.
b) Never transport patients you suspect are contagious.
c) Assure that linen is thrown away when soiled with blood.
d) Wear gloves whenever you make any patient contact.
a) Use disposable equipment whenever possible.
You are called to the local homeless shelter for a patient who has a high fever and is coughing up blood-tinged sputum. Select the two (2) pieces of protective equipment that would be the most important for the rescuer to wear.
a) Impervious gown.
b) HEPA respirator
c) Foot protection
d) Eye protection
e) Eye protection
f) Surgical mask
b and d: HEPA respirator and Eye protection (b/c patient has signs and symptoms consistent with TB)
You have determined that an emergency clothes drag is necessary to move your patient. Which of these would be the safest technique?
a) Bend your knees before pulling him.
b) Drag the patient by his pant cuffs.
c) Lock your legs, elbows, and back in position.
a) Bend your knees before pulling him.
Which of the following would be the BEST way to decrease the transmission of infectious materials?
a) Hand washing
b) Wearing gloves with all patients
c) Wearing gloves, mask, and face shield
a) Hand washing
