Midterm Flashcards
Allows for EMT & paramedics to contact someone from the field via radio or other means to obtain instructions on further care for a patient.
What is medical direction?
Provided through a set of written guidelines that allow EMTS to use their judgement to administer emergency medical care according to written guidelines without having to contact a physician.
What is off-line medical direction?
Requires the EMT to get permission from a physician via cell phone, telephone, or radio communication prior to administering specific emergency care.
What is on-line medical direction?
Off-line & on-line
How to contact medical Direction?
Protocols that DONT require real-time physician input.
What are standing orders?
Full set of guidelines that define the entire scope of medical care.
What are protocols?
Transfer of care, poor communication, not moving or carrying patient correctly, ambulance crash, & lack of spinal immobilization.
What are some areas and risks for greatest chance of medical errors or mistakes?
personal protective equipment.
Equipment used for standard precautions
What is PPE and what is it used for?
Body substance isolation
Protects yourself from disease transmission through exposure to blood and other bodily fluids
What is BSI stand for and what does it do?
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
What are the 5 stages of grief (in order)?
Acute Stress Reaction- Instantly
Delayed Stress Reaction- (PTSD)
Cumulative Stress Reaction- (Burnout)
What types of job related stress is the EMT subject to?
Burnout is constant exposure to stress that builds over time.
EX. State of exhaustion and irritability
What is burnout, following with examples?
HEP B: affects the liver
S/S: fatigue, nausea, abdominal aim, headache, fever, yellow color of skin, dark urine.
PPE: gloves, bandage all cuts on hands
HEP C: no vaccine available, contracted by needle sticks.
TUBERCULOSIS: Can be infected by droplets from the cough of a patient & from patients infected sputum (saliva and mucus)
S/S: fever, coughing up blood PPE: gloves, HEPA or N-95 mask
What are the different communicable diseases that can possibly be contracted by EMT (know the S/S & correct PPE)
Negligence: Tort in which there is no intent to do any harm to a patient, but something occurs.
Simple Negligence: NO intent to harm
Gross Negligence: INTENT do to harm
Court must prove:
• EMT had a duty to act
•EMT breached that duty to act
•Patient suffered an injury or harm that is recognized by the law as a compensable injury.
•Injuries were the result of the breach of duty (proximate cause)
What is Negligence and what are the components that must be proved in a court of law?
Protects a person from liability for acts performed out of good faith
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
