Question: Emergency Medical Care

Answer: - Immediate care or treatment

• Often provided by an EMT, who may be the first link in the chain of prehospital care

• Question: Consent

• Answer: Permission given by the person receiving care to be given treatment

• Question: Expressed Consent

• Answer: The type of consent given when the patient verbally or otherwise acknowledges that he or she wants you to provide care or transport

• Question: Informed Consent

• Answer: Permission for treatment given by a competent patient after the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained

• Question: Abandonment

• Answer: Unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient’s consent and without making provision for transferring care to another medical professional with the skills and training necessary to meet the needs of the patient

• Question: Advance Directive

• Answer: Written documentation that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient should the patient become unable to make decision; also called a living will or health care directive

• Question: Applied Ethics

• Answer: The manner in which principles of ethics are incorporated into professional conduct

• Question: Assault

• Answer: Unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm

• Question: Battery

• Answer: Touching a patient or providing emergency care without consent

• Question: Bioethics

• Answer: The study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care