EMT - Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues - Lecture 3 of 6 Foundation Block - Season 2

27/08/2022 29 min Temporada 2 Episodio 3
EMT - Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues - Lecture 3 of 6 Foundation Block - Season 2

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In this module, students will become familiar with the legal and ethical side to emergency medicine. We will discuss issues associated with Advanced Directives, Consent, Confidentiality, and End of Life Issues. If there is any area an EMT will get in trouble it is this area. 
Knowledge Domains: 
Consent, what is it and how does it apply to emergency medicine? 
Understand the several types of consent: 
Actual, Expressed
Implied 
Involuntary 


Minors and consent 
When can you forcible restrain a patient? 
EMT’s roles and responsibilities when a patient refuses treatment and transport. 
HIPPA 
DNRs and EMS 
Signs of Death 
Physical 
Presumptive 
Definitive 


Organ Donors 
Standards of Care  
Scope of Practice 
Duty to Act 
EMT can commit the following: 
Negligence
Abandonment 
Assault 
Battery 
Kidnapping 


Legal reporting requirements of the EMT 
Ethics and morality 
Role of the EMT in court 

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