Law & Ethics for Medical Careers 5e Chapter 8
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Administer | To instill a drug into the body of a patient. |
| Amendments to the Older Americans Act | A 1987 federal act that defines elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, but does not deal with enforcement. |
| Autopsy | A postmortem examination to determine the cause of death or to obtain physiological evidence, as in the case of a suspicious death. |
| Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act | A federal law passed in 1974 requiring physicians to report cases of child abuse and to try to prevent future cases. |
| Controlled Substances Act | The federal law giving authority to the Drug Enforcement Agency to regulate the sale and use of drugs. |
| Coroner | A public official who investigates and holds inquests over those who die from unknown or violent causes; he or she may or may not be a physician, depending upon state law. |
| Dispense | To deliver controlled substances in some type of bottle, box, or other container to a patient. |
| Drug Enforcement Administration | A branch of the U.S. Department of Justice that regulates the sale and use of drugs. |
| Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | A federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees drug quality and standardization and must approve drugs before they are released for public use. |
| Forensics | A division of medicine that incorporates law and medicine and involves medical issues or medical proof at trials having to do with malpractice, crimes, and accidents. |
| Medical Examiner | A physician who investigates suspicious or unexplained deaths. |
| National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act | A federal law passed in 1986 that created a no-fault compensation program for citizens injured or killed by vaccines, as an alternative to suing vaccine manufacturers and providers. |
| National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) | A no-fault federal system of compensation for individuals or families of individuals injured by childhood vaccination. |
| Prescribe | To issue a medical prescription for a patient. |
| Unborn Victims of Violence Act | Also called Laci and Conner's Act, a federal law passed in 2004 that provides for the prosecution of anyone who causes injury to or the death of a fetus in utero. |
| Vital Statistics | Numbers collected for the population of live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, divorces, induced terminations of pregnancy, and any change in civil status that occurs during an individual's lifetime. |
| Schedule I Drugs | No proven or acceptable medical use in the United States, because of the high potential for abuse. Used strickly for research. |
| Examples of Schedule I Drugs: | Herion, marjuana, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and methaqualone. |
| Schedule II Drugs | Narcotics with a high potential for abuse with severe psychic or physical dependence. Currently have accepted medical use in the United States. |
| Examples of Schedule II Drugs: | Morphine, phencyclidine (PCP), cocaine, methadone, and methamphetamine. |
| Shedule IIn Drugs | Subdivision of Schedule II, nonnarcotic drugs with a high potential for abuse. |
| Examples of Shedule IIn Drugs: | Dexedrine, Desoxyn, Preludin, Ritalin, and pentobarbital. |
| Schedule III Drugs | A potential for abuse is less than Scheule I or II, with currently medical accepted use in the United States. May lead to moderate or low physical and high psychological dependence. |
| Examples of Schedule III Drugs: | Anabolic steroids, codeine, and hydrocodone with asprin or Tylenol, and some barbiturates. |
| Schedule IIIn Drugs | Nonnarcotic central nervous system depressants. |
| Examples of Schedule IIIn Drugs: | Glutehhimide, methyprylong, and barbiturates not listed in other schedules, as well as anorectant agents (suppositories) not listed elsewhere. |
| Schedule IV Drugs | The drug or other substance has alow potential for abuse relative to the drugs or other substances in Schedule III, and has currently accepted medical use in the United States. Abuse of the drug may lead to physical dependence or psychological dependence. |
| Example of Schedule IV Drugs: | Darvon, Talwin, Equanil, Valium, Xanax. |
| Schedule V Drugs | Contains small amount of narcoctics. Low potential for abuse relative to the drugs or other substances in Schedule IV, and has a currently accepted medical use in the United States. Abuse of the drug or other substances may lead to limited physical dependence or psychological dependence relative to the drugs or other substances in Schedule IV. |
| Example of Schedule 5 Drugs: | Cough medicines with codeine, antitussive, antidiarrheal, and analgesic drugs. |
| Schedule II and IIn | Require a properly executed, manually signed prescription. No refills are premitted on these presciptions. |
| Schedule III - V | May be prescribed on written or oral orders, and refills are generally permitted with certain limitations. |
| Vital Statistics that the government collects are? Total of 7 are given. | Live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, divorcies, induced terminations of pregnancy, and any change in civil status that occurs during an individual's life time. |
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