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| 2680479499 | Abandonment | Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training. | 0 | |
| 2680481105 | Advanced Directive | A DNR order; instructions written in advance of an event. | 1 | |
| 2680482203 | Assault | Placing a person in fear of bodily harm. | 2 | |
| 2680485308 | Battery | Causing bodily harm to or restraining a person. | 3 | |
| 2680486002 | Confidentiality | The obligation not to reveal information obtained about a patient except to other health care professionals involved in the patient's care or subpoena or in a court of law or when the patient has signed a release of confidentiality. | 4 | |
| 2680500396 | Consent | Permission from the patient for care or other action by the EMT. | 5 | |
| 2680502041 | Crime Scene | The location where a crime has been committed or any place that evidence relating to a crime may be found. | 6 | |
| 2680506780 | Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order | A legal document, usually signed by the patient and his physician, which states that the patient had a terminal illness and does not wish to prolong life through resuscitation efforts | 7 | |
| 2680545032 | Duty to Act | An obligation to provide care to a patient. | 8 | |
| 2680546068 | Ethical | Regarding a social system or social or professional expectations for applying principals of right and wrong. | 9 | |
| 2680548584 | Expressed consent | Consent given by adults who are of legal age and mentally competent to make rational decisions in regard to their medical well-being. | 10 | |
| 2680549808 | Good Samaritan laws | A series of laws, varying in each state, designed to provide limited legal protection for citizens and and some health care personnel when they are administering emergency care. | 11 | |
| 2680553211 | HIPPA | The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal law protecting the privacy of patient-specific health care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed. | 12 | |
| 2680560506 | Implied consent | The consent it is presumed a patient or a patient's parent or guardian would give if they could, such as for an unconscious patient or a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed. | 13 | |
| 2680563739 | In loco parentis | In place of a parent, indicating a person who may give consent for care of a child when the parents are not present or able to give consent. | 14 | |
| 2680566561 | Liability | Being held legally responsible | 15 | |
| 2680570405 | Libel | False injurious information in written form | 16 | |
| 2680571933 | Moral | Regarding personal standards or principals of right and wrong. | 17 | |
| 2680573065 | Negligence | A finding of failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act, that needed care as would reasonably be expected of the EMT was not provided, and that harm was caused to the patient as a result. | 18 | |
| 2680576403 | Organ donor | A person who has completed a legal document that allows for donation of organs and tissues in the event of death. | 19 | |
| 2680583824 | Physicians Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) | Physicians orders that state not only the patient's wishes regarding resuscitation attempts but also the patient's wishes of artificial feeding, antibiotics, and other life-sustaining care if the person is unable top state his desires later. | 20 | |
| 2680587813 | res ipsa loquitur | a Latin term meaning, "the thing speaks for itself" | 21 | |
| 2680592070 | Safe haven law | A law that permits a person to drop off an infant or child at a police, fire, or EMS station or to deliver the infant or child to ant available public safety personnel. The intent of the law is to protect children who may otherwise be abandoned or harmed. | 22 | |
| 2680597199 | Slander | False injurious information stated verbally | 23 | |
| 2680600116 | Standard of care | For an EMT providing care for an specific patient in a specific situation, the care that would be expected to be provided by an EMT with similar training when caring for a patient in a similar situation. | 24 | |
| 2680602545 | Tort | A civil, not criminal, offense; an action or injury cased by negligence from which a lawsuit may arise. | 25 |
