Paramedic Rideouts/A-EMCA Exam || Questions & Answers (100% Correct)
Paramedic Rideouts/A-EMCA Exam || Questions & Answers (100% Correct)
As a paramedic one of your ethical responsibilities is - ANSWER - treating all patients and their families with courtesy and respect.
Your best protection...
, Paramedic Rideouts/A-EMCA Exam ||
Questions & Answers (100% Correct)
As a paramedic one of your ethical responsibilities is - ANSWER - treating all
patients and their families with courtesy and respect.
Your best protection from liability is to - ANSWER - perform systematic
assessments.
The area of law in which the federal, state, or local government will prosecute an
individual on behalf of society for violating laws meant to protect society is -
ANSWER - criminal law
The filing of complaint, answering complaint, and settlement are three components
of a - ANSWER - civil lawsuit
If a paramedic intubates the esophagus of a patient instead of the trachea, does not
confirm tube placement, and leaves the tube in place, he has breached his duty by -
ANSWER - misfeasance
Elements of negligence include proof that the paramedic - ANSWER - was the
proximate cause of actual damages to the patient.
To show the existence of proximate cause, the plaintiff needs to prove that the
damage to the patient was - ANSWER - reasonably foreseeable.
A patient may sue you for violating his civil rights if you - ANSWER - fail to render
care for a discriminatory reason.
The act of injuring a person's character, name, or reputation by false or malicious
statements spoken with malicious intent or reckless disregard for the falsity of those
statements is called - ANSWER - slander
If you respond to a seven-year-old child with a life-threatening injury and no parent or
guardian is available, you may still treat the child because of - ANSWER - implied
consent.
If a competent adult refuses care, you should - ANSWER - document the situation
thoroughly.
The termination of the paramedic-patient relationship without assurance that an
equal or greater level of care will continue is - ANSWER - abandonment
A paramedic who starts an IV on a patient who does not consent to such treatment
may be sued for - ANSWER - battery
, During transport of a patient to a health care facility, the level of care the patient
receives must (may) - ANSWER - be at least the same level of care received at the
scene.
A document created to ensure that certain treatment choices are honored when a
patient is unconscious or otherwise unable to express his choice of treatment is
called a(n) - ANSWER - advance directive.
If you have any doubt about whether a DNR order is valid, you should - ANSWER -
initiate resuscitation efforts.
Which type of instruction on a DNR order is legal? - ANSWER - "Withhold CPR"
When you are treating a patient at a crime scene, your responsibilities include -
ANSWER - trying not to touch the body at all if the patient has an obvious mortal
wound, such as decapitation.
Which of the following statements regarding documentation is CORRECT? -
ANSWER - The patient report should be completed promptly after patient contact
A legal document that allows a person to specify the kinds of medical treatment he
wishes to receive, should the need arise, is called - ANSWER - a living will.
CHAPTER 7 SCENARIO
Review the following real-life situation. Then answer the questions that follow.
An EMT who is also a paramedic student is completing ride-along training with a
paramedic crew that has been dispatched to the scene of a multivehicle collision.
Aeromedical transport by the local rotor wing service is unavailable because of
inclement weather. Six patients require transport, and the resources available
consists of three BLS ambulances, each with two EMTs, and the paramedic ALS
ambulance with its two paramedics and paramedic trainee. One BLS ambulance
transports two conscious patients with minor fractures and cuts, which were
stabilized on the scene. The second BLS ambulance transports two more patients
with similar stabilized injuries. The paramedic ALS ambulance will have to transport
the most critical multiple-trauma patient, who is unconscious and will require both
paramedics to maintain the airway - ANSWER -
1. Could the paramedics be held negligent or be charged under res ipsa loquitur?
Explain. - ANSWER - Possibly. Although the case may not clearly meet the three
areas of res ipsa loquitur and the paramedics performed an accepted standard of
patient care, they then left that patient in the care of a paramedic student who was
an EMT not licensed to perform the level of care the patient required without the
oversight of a paramedic preceptor. Therefore, leaving the patient with an EMT as
the paramedic preceptor did could be considered patient abandonment. As the
patient decompensated, the paramedic student performed care that he was not
licensed to perform without a paramedic preceptor, and it is unclear from the
scenario whether the patient was further injured by the lower level of care provided.
Additionally, if the paramedic student was not an employee of the same company,
the paramedics could be liable under the borrowed servant doctrine for the acts of
the trainee.
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