Author Question: Although not required in OEC 5th Edition, your local mountain protocol states that any time you use ... (Read 55 times)

JMatthes · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Although not required in OEC 5th Edition, your local mountain protocol states that any time you use a backboard you should always treat the patient as having a neck/back injury and apply a cervical collar. You recognize that this mountain-specific requirement is called a:

a. standard of training.
b. standard of care.
c. medical standard.
d. duty to act.

Question 2

While you are alone and caring for an injured skier in the aid room, a fellow patroller calls and tells you that your own young child was just injured in the terrain park. Concerned for your child, you leave the patient's care unfinished and run to the terrain park. Your action could be viewed as:

a. a breach of ethics.
b. your duty to act.
c. denial of care.
d. abandonment.