AAOS EMERGENCY CARE AND
TRANSPORTATION EXAM REVIEW FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Advanced Directive
Answer: Written documentation that specifies medical treatment for a
competent patient should the patient become unable to make decisions:
Also called a living will or health care directive
●● Good Samaritan Law
Answer: Statutory provisions enacted by many states to protect citizens
from liability for errors and omissions in giving good faith emergency
medical care, unless there is wanton, gross or willful negligence
●● Scope of Practice
Answer: Most commonly defined by the state. Outlines the care that an
EMT is legally able to provide for the patient.
●● Standard of Care
Answer: The manner is which you must act or behave. Written accepted
levels of emergency care expected by reason of training and profession:
written by legal or professional organizations so that patients are not
exposed to unreasonable risk or harm.
,●● Negligence
Answer: Failure to provide the same care that a person with similar
training would provide.
●● Medicolegal
Answer: A term relating to medical jurisprudence (law) or forensic
medicine
●● Implied Consent
Answer: Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give
consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she
would want treatment.
●● Forcible Restraint
Answer: The act of physically preventing an individual from initiating
any physical action.
●● Expressed Consent
Answer: A type of consent in which a patient gives verbal or nonverbal
authorization for provision of care or transport.
●● duty to act
Answer: A medioclegal term relating to certain personnel who either by
statute or by function have a responsibility to provide care.
, ●● Consent
Answer: Granted permission to render care
●● Assault
Answer: Unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm
●● Abandonment
Answer: termination of care by the EMT without the patients 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.
●● Battery
Answer: Unlawfully touching a patient or providing emergency care
without consent.
●● Certification
Answer: A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is
evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to
provide safe and ethical patient care.
●● Competent
Answer: Able to make rational decisions about personal well-being
TRANSPORTATION EXAM REVIEW FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Advanced Directive
Answer: Written documentation that specifies medical treatment for a
competent patient should the patient become unable to make decisions:
Also called a living will or health care directive
●● Good Samaritan Law
Answer: Statutory provisions enacted by many states to protect citizens
from liability for errors and omissions in giving good faith emergency
medical care, unless there is wanton, gross or willful negligence
●● Scope of Practice
Answer: Most commonly defined by the state. Outlines the care that an
EMT is legally able to provide for the patient.
●● Standard of Care
Answer: The manner is which you must act or behave. Written accepted
levels of emergency care expected by reason of training and profession:
written by legal or professional organizations so that patients are not
exposed to unreasonable risk or harm.
,●● Negligence
Answer: Failure to provide the same care that a person with similar
training would provide.
●● Medicolegal
Answer: A term relating to medical jurisprudence (law) or forensic
medicine
●● Implied Consent
Answer: Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give
consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she
would want treatment.
●● Forcible Restraint
Answer: The act of physically preventing an individual from initiating
any physical action.
●● Expressed Consent
Answer: A type of consent in which a patient gives verbal or nonverbal
authorization for provision of care or transport.
●● duty to act
Answer: A medioclegal term relating to certain personnel who either by
statute or by function have a responsibility to provide care.
, ●● Consent
Answer: Granted permission to render care
●● Assault
Answer: Unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm
●● Abandonment
Answer: termination of care by the EMT without the patients 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.
●● Battery
Answer: Unlawfully touching a patient or providing emergency care
without consent.
●● Certification
Answer: A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is
evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to
provide safe and ethical patient care.
●● Competent
Answer: Able to make rational decisions about personal well-being
