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Side A ------ Side B
Abandonment ------ Unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient's consent and without making provisions for transferring care. 
Advance Directive ------ Written documentation that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient should the patient become unable to make decisions, AKA a living will.
Assault ------ Unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm.
Battery ------ Touching a patient or providing emergency care without consent.
Certification ------ A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain standards to provide safe and ethical care.
Competent ------ Able to make rational decisions about personal well-being.
Consent ------ Permission to render care.
Dependent Lividity ------ Blood settling to the lowest point of the body, causing discoloration of the skin.
Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders ------ Written documentation by a physician giving permission to medical personnel not to attempt resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest. 
Duty To Act ------ A medicolegal term relating to certain personnel who either by statute or by function has a responsibility to provide care.
Emergency ------ A serious situation that threatens the life or welfare of a person or group of people and requires immediate intervention. 
Emergency Medical Care ------ Immediate care or treatment.
Express Consent ------ A type of consent in which a patient gives express authorization for provision of care or transport.
Forcible Restraint ------ The act of physically preventing an individual from any physical action.
Good Samaritan Laws ------ Laws enacted to protect citizens from liability for errors in giving emergency medical care, unless they are grossly negligent. 
Implied Consent ------ 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.
Informed Consent ------ Permission for treatment given by a competent patient after the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained. 
Medicolegal ------ A term relating to medical jurisprudence (law) or forensic medicine.
Negligence ------ Failure to provide the same care that a person with similar training would provide.
Precedence ------ basing current action on lessons, rules, or guidelines derived from previous similar experiences. 
Putrefaction ------ Decomposition of body tissues.
Rigor Mortis ------ Stiffening of the body; a definitive sign of death.
Standard of Care ------ Written levels of emergency care expected by reason of training and profession so that patients are not exposed to unreasonable risk or harm.

Side A ------ Side B
Abandonment ------ Unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient's consent and without making provisions for transferring care. 
Advance Directive ------ Written documentation that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient should the patient become unable to make decisions, AKA a living will.
Assault ------ Unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm.
Battery ------ Touching a patient or providing emergency care without consent.
Certification ------ A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain standards to provide safe and ethical care.
Competent ------ Able to make rational decisions about personal well-being.
Consent ------ Permission to render care.
Dependent Lividity ------ Blood settling to the lowest point of the body, causing discoloration of the skin.
Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders ------ Written documentation by a physician giving permission to medical personnel not to attempt resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest. 
Duty To Act ------ A medicolegal term relating to certain personnel who either by statute or by function has a responsibility to provide care.
Emergency ------ A serious situation that threatens the life or welfare of a person or group of people and requires immediate intervention. 
Emergency Medical Care ------ Immediate care or treatment.
Express Consent ------ A type of consent in which a patient gives express authorization for provision of care or transport.
Forcible Restraint ------ The act of physically preventing an individual from any physical action.
Good Samaritan Laws ------ Laws enacted to protect citizens from liability for errors in giving emergency medical care, unless they are grossly negligent. 
Implied Consent ------ 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.
Informed Consent ------ Permission for treatment given by a competent patient after the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained. 
Medicolegal ------ A term relating to medical jurisprudence (law) or forensic medicine.
Negligence ------ Failure to provide the same care that a person with similar training would provide.
Precedence ------ basing current action on lessons, rules, or guidelines derived from previous similar experiences. 
Putrefaction ------ Decomposition of body tissues.
Rigor Mortis ------ Stiffening of the body; a definitive sign of death.
Standard of Care ------ Written levels of emergency care expected by reason of training and profession so that patients are not exposed to unreasonable risk or harm.