The Do Not Resuscitate Order (Questions with errorless answers)

Healthcare workers are prohibited from using rescue efforts on a patient who has cardiac and/or pulmonary arrest if: correct answers The have a valid DNR order True or False: EMTs should NOT provide emotional support to the loved one's of a patient who has a valid DNR order correct answers FALSE True or False: An EMT cannot withhold resuscitative efforts without the guidance of a medical control physician correct answers TRUE The time of death of a patient must be confirmed by a _____ and must be _____ correct answers Emergency Department physician; well-documented in the Patient Care Report True or False: A person who claims to have "power of attorney" over a patient's healthcare can decide if resustate efforts can be withheld correct answers FALSE; a person who has "power of attorney" over a patient's healthcare decisions can make most healthcare decisions for a patient EXCEPT for resuscitate efforts True or False: Living Wills can NOT be honored as DNR orders correct answers True; If a living will is presented begin resuscitate efforts and contact Medical Control to let them know the situation True or False: A surrogate can NOT decide to make resuscitate decisions on the behave of the patient correct answers True; Call Medical Control if the patient has a surrogate and explain the situation A valid DNR order must include: correct answers The name of the patient, a physician's signature, a date in which the DNR is effective, the words "Do Not Resuscitate" or "Withhold Treatment", a witness signature, a "signature of consent" (i.e. patient signature, legal guardian signature, "power of attorney" signature, or a surrogate signature) True or False: You should only withhold treatment of a patient with a valid DNR order if they are undergoing cardiac or respiratory arrest correct answers True; the patient must be in a "decompensating" condition in order to withhold treatment A patient is considered "obviously dead" (aka "Triple Zero") if: correct answers The patient is pulse-less, not breathing, and displaying a sign of an "obviously dead" person Resuscitate efforts can be withheld if a patient is displaying the following signs: correct answers Missing head, rigor mortis (w/o signs of hypothermia), decomposition, lividity, mummification, incineration, frozen