ANES 1501 - M11 PPT: Standards of Conduct

1. STANDARDS OF CONDUCT
ANES 1501
Introduction to Anesthesia
Technology
College of DuPage

2. LEGAL ISSUES
Bill of Rights
Risk management

3. LEGAL TERMS
Accountability
Affidavit
Allegation
Bona fide

4. LEGAL TERMS
Case Law
Complaint
Defendant
Deposition

5. LEGAL TERMS
Federal Law
Guardian
Iatrogenic injury
Indictment

6. LEGAL TERMS
Jury
Larceny
Law
 Common, Statutory

7. LEGAL TERMS
Liability
 Corporate, Personal
Malpractice
Negligence
 Criminal

8. LEGAL TERMS
Perjury
Plaintiff
Precedent
Standard of Care

9. LEGAL TERMS
State Law
Subpoena
Tort

10. TRADITIONAL PRINCIPLES
Aeger Primo
Doctrine of borrowed servant
Doctrine of corporate negligence
Doctrine of foreseeability

11. TRADITIONAL PRINCIPLES
Doctrine of personal liability
Doctrine of the reasonably prudent person
Primum non nocere
Res ipsa loquitur

12. TRADITIONAL PRINCIPLES
Respondeat superior

13. TORTS
Intentional torts
 Assault
 Battery
 Defamation
 False imprisonment
 Intentional infliction of emotional distress
 Invasion of privacy
 3 elements of proof

14. TORTS
Unintentional torts
 Malpractice
 Negligence
 Patient misidentification
 Performing an incorrect procedure
 Foreign bodies left in patients secondary to incorrect
sponge/instrument count
 Patient burns
 Falls/positioning errors resulting in patient injury

15. TORTS
–Improper handling, identification, or loss of specimen
–Incorrect drugs/administration
–Harm secondary to use of defective equipment/instrument
–Loss of /damage to patient’s property
–Harm secondary to a major break in sterile technique

16. TORTS
Abandonment of a patient
Exceeding authority or accepted functions:
 Violation of hospital policy