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