PE-0131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Avpu, Medical Director, Advance Healthcare Directive
26 Jan 2017
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Chapter 3 - medical, legal, and ethical issues. Scope of practice - what you can do as an emt: de ne by state law, outlines the car you can provide, authorized through online medical direction. Medical director - writes the directives (always the same person from your company) Medical control - physician who is live during the ems calls for reference in the eld (hospital provides dr. on call: standard of care, standards imposed by local custom, standards imposed by the law, professional or institutional standards. Legal duty to act - only applies when you are on duty, called to that scene, and you are within your jurisdiction and scope of practice: negligence: If you didn"t write it down it did not happen! Abandonment - termination of care without the patient"s consent, without provisions for continued care: care cannot stop unless someone of equal or higher training takes over. Fire ghters and police of cers are not equal or higher.
