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EMT Course - Chapter 3 Exam Questions
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What is a basic principle of emergency care? - answer✔Do No Further Harm
In the context of EMS, permission to render care. - answer✔Consent
An adult who is conscious, rational, and capable of making informed decisions has a legal right to do
WHAT, even if ill or injured? - answer✔Refuse Care
Consent can be WHAT? - answer✔Expressed (actual) or Implied
What is the foundation of consent? - answer✔Decision-Making Capacity
- Ability to understand and process information and make a choice regarding appropriate medical care.
- Term more commonly used in health care to determine whether or not a patient is capable of making
health care decisions. - answer✔Decision-making capacity (Definition)
The right of a patient to make informed choices regarding his or her health care. - answer✔Patient
Autonomy
Generally regarded as a legal term; and determinations for this are typically made by a court of law. -
answer✔Competence
If a patient refuses care, and you continue to care for the patient, what may that be the grounds for? -
answer✔Both criminal and civil action
- Or Actual Consent
- A type of consent in which a patient gives VERBAL or NONVERBAL authorization for provision of care or
transport.
Ex. of Non-Verbal Consent: You ask a patient if you can check his or her blood pressure, and the patient
extends an arm to you. - answer✔Expressed Consent
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Permission for treatment given by a competent patient after the potential risks, benefits, and
alternatives to treatment have been explained. - answer✔Informed Consent
Informed Consent is valid ___________, but it may be difficult to prove at a later point in time.
What are we advised to do? - answer✔Document consent in run report, also having someone witness
the patient's consent
A patient may agree to ___________ emergency medical care procedures, but...? - answer✔Some; Not
others
When a person is unconscious or otherwise incapable of making a rational, informed decision about
care, and unable to give consent, the law assumes WHAT? - answer✔The patient would consent to care
and transport to a medical facility if he or she were able to do so.
A type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal
assumption that he or she would want treatment. - answer✔Implied Consent
What is the principle of implied consent? - answer✔Emergency Doctrine
The principle of law that permits a healthcare provider to treat a patient in an emergency situation
when the patient is incapable of granting consent when the patient is incapable of granting consent
because of an altered level of consciousness, disability, the effects of drugs or alcohol, or the patient's
age. - answer✔Emergency Doctrine
Relating to medical jurisprudence (law) or forensic medicine. - answer✔Medicolegal
In most instances, the law allows WHO to give consent for an injured person who is unable to do so? -
answer✔Spouse, Close Relative, or Next of Kin
You should make every effort to obtain consent from an ___________ ____________ before treating
based on implied consent. - answer✔Available Relative
If you are helping a patient based on implied consent, and they wake up and appear like they can form
rational decisions on their own, does implied consent still apply? - answer✔No
When does waking up during implied consent usually occur? - answer✔Calls involving diabetic
emergencies, overdoses, syncope, and seizures
Assisting patients who are mentally ill, developmentally delayed, or who are in behavioral (psychologic )
crisis is complicated. An adult patient who is mentally incompetent is not able to give informed consent
like a minors case sometimes. Who should give consent for them? - answer✔Someone who is legally
responsible for the patient, such as a guardian or conservator.
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Because a minor might not have the ________, __________, or ____________ to give consent, the law
requires that WHO when available, give consent for treatment or transport. - answer✔Wisdom,
Maturity, or Judgement; Parent or Legal Guardian
For minors, when parents cannot be reached, what does this allow? - answer✔Health care providers are
allowed to give emergency care to a child.
In some states, a minor can consent to receive medical care, depending on the minor's WHAT? -
answer✔Age and Maturity
A person who is under the legal age in a give state but, because of other circumstances, is legally
considered an adult. - answer✔Emancipated Minors
Many states consider minors to be emancipated if they are WHAT? - answer✔Married, Members of the
Armed Services, if they are Parents, or if they are living away from or no longer relying on his or her
parents for support
Refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and
responsibilities of a parent. - answer✔In Loco Parentis (Definition)
If a minor is injured and requires medical treatment in a school or camp setting, teachers and school
officials may act...? - answer✔In Loco Parentis
- The act of physically preventing an individual from initiating any physical action.
- Sometimes necessary when you are confronted with a patient who is in need of medical treatment and
transportation but is combative and presents a significant physical risk of danger to himself, rescuers, or
others. - answer✔Forcible Restraint
Typically, you should consult medical control for...? - answer✔Authorization to Restrain
Restraint may be used ONLY in circumstances of...? - answer✔Risk to the patient or others
Restraints should only be considered if the patient has a medical condition that appears ____________
or if he or she suffers from a WHAT? - answer✔Serious; Apparent behavioral disorder that poses a risk
to the patient or others.
After restraints are applied, they should not be removed...? - answer✔En route unless they pose a risk
to the patient, even if the patient promises to behave.
When a patient is restrained, it is essential you monitor WHAT to avoid asphyxia, aspiration, and other
complications. - answer✔The patient's airway and respiratory status
An 8-year old boy was struck by a car, unconscious, and is bleeding from the mouth. As you begin to
provide care, a police officer tells you that he is unable to contact the child's parents. You should:
