Med/Legal Assessment

An EMT asks a patient if they can take a blood pressure and the patient replies "yes". This is considered ​ ​ (a)   consent

• expressed
• implied
• involuntary
• informed
• minimum
• guardian

The principal that EMS providers can provide care to an unconscious patient based on the concept that a resonable person would want care to be provided in that situation is known as:

• involuntary consent

• implied consent

• expressed consent

• informed consent

An on duty EMT fails to render aid to to a person in need of care. This is considered:

• duty to act

• breech of duty

• negligence

• proximate cause

A patient has a document stating that they do not want any advanced airway devices to be placed in the event they are unconscious. This legal document is classified as a ​ (a)   .

• Living will
• DNR
• POLST
• Standard of Care
• Protocol

Transporting a competent patient to a hospital without consent is considered:

• Abandonement

• False imprisonment

• Involuntary consent

• Assault/Battery

The skills and abilities an EMT are allowed to perform are considered the EMT's ​ (a)   ​ .

• Scope of Practice
• Duty to act
• Standard of Care
• Online Medical Control
• Offline Medical Control

All of the following are definitive signs of death except:

• Dependent lividity

• Rigor Mortis

• Putrefaction

• Apnea

Reorder the following oxygen devices from the lowest to the highest flow rate required:

• Nebulizer

• Bag-Valve Mask

• NRB

• Nasal Cannula

You a treating a patient for suspected pneumonia. As a knowledgable EMT, you understand that the primary issue with pneumonia is:

• Poor exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide

• Bronchiole constriction

• Air trapping in the thoracic cavity

• Air accumulation in the pleural space

When treating a patient who presents with shortness or breath, your auscultation of lung sounds reveals wheezing bilaterally. As a knowledgable EMT, you recognize that this lung sound is caused by:

• bronchodilation

• bronchoconstriction

• congestive heart failure

• fluid accumulation in the alveoli