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Who is responsible for conducting the first assessment of the patient?

  • A specialist medical college fellow
  • The consulting medical practitioner
  • The coordinating medical practitioner (correct)
  • A vocationally registered general practitioner
  • Who must have at least five years of experience post-fellowship?

  • The consulting medical practitioner
  • The coordinating medical practitioner (correct)
  • A specialist medical college fellow
  • A vocationally registered general practitioner
  • What must the coordinating medical practitioner inform the person about?

  • The diagnosis and prognosis
  • The available treatment options
  • The palliative care options
  • All of the above (correct)
  • When can a final request be made?

    <p>At least nine days after the first request</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following statements accurately reflects the legal principles regarding refusal of medical treatment?

    <p>A competent adult patient is legally entitled to refuse any medical treatment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following has prompted concerns about the use of life-sustaining medical technology?

    <p>Fear of extending life</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Under the Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation, what is the legal requirement for another person to assist in suicide?

    <p>Another person can be legally required to assist in suicide.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the necessary elements to establish suicide?

    <p>The person who intends suicide must actually die</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the distinction between suicide and refusal of medical treatment?

    <p>Suicide involves deliberately causing one's own death, while refusal of medical treatment does not</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the punishment for aiding and abetting another to commit suicide in Victoria?

    <p>10 years imprisonment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the definition of euthanasia according to the Australian Medical Association?

    <p>The act of deliberately ending the life of a patient for the purpose of ending intolerable pain and/or suffering</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of permit must be obtained if a person is physically able to self-administer the voluntary assisted dying substance?

    <p>Self-administration permit</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What must the coordinating medical practitioner do if the person loses the physical capacity to self-administer or digest the prescribed substance?

    <p>Apply for a practitioner administration permit</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who must notify the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages if a person was the subject of a voluntary assisted dying permit?

    <p>The responsible medical practitioner</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which board is responsible for monitoring voluntary assisted dying activity under the legislation?

    <p>Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following best describes passive voluntary euthanasia?

    <p>When medical treatment is withdrawn or withheld from a patient, at the patient's request, in order to end the patient's life</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which term is used to mean assisted suicide for the terminally ill only?

    <p>Assisted dying</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is eligible for access to voluntary assisted dying under the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017?

    <p>Those diagnosed with an incurable, advanced, progressive disease expected to cause death within less than 6 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What must a person do to access voluntary assisted dying?

    <p>Make a request to their doctor</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the penalty for a coordinating medical practitioner who knowingly administers a voluntary assisted dying substance other than in accordance with a practitioner administration permit with the intent to cause death?

    <p>Life imprisonment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who will provide separate information to the Board throughout the process of accessing voluntary assisted dying?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the penalty for anyone other than the person themselves who knowingly administers a voluntary assisted dying substance dispensed under a self-administration permit?

    <p>Life imprisonment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the penalty for a contact person who fails to return any unused or remaining prescribed voluntary assisted dying substance within one month after the death of a person who is the subject of a self-administration permit?

    <p>Level eight imprisonment (maximum of 12 months) or 120 penalty units, or both</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which Act replaced the Medical Treatment Act 1988 in Victoria?

    <p>The Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for a written document that records an individual's wishes regarding future medical treatment?

    <p>Living will</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who can be appointed as a proxy decision-maker in an advance directive?

    <p>A Medical Treatment Decision Maker</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is considered medical treatment under the Victorian legislation?

    <p>Artificial nutrition and hydration via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG feeding)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is included in the definition of palliative care under the Act?

    <p>Reasonable medical treatment for the relief of pain, suffering, and discomfort</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following terms refers to medical directives indicating that resuscitation should not be undertaken in specified circumstances?

    <p>NFR (Not For Resuscitation)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What criteria should be met for a 'No-CPR' directive to be considered valid?

    <p>Recorded as a formal directive in the patient's notes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following statements accurately describes the purpose of the Act?

    <p>The Act establishes a framework for medical treatment decision making for people without decision making capacity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the requirement for creating an advance care directive?

    <p>The person must have decision-making capacity in relation to each statement in their advance care directive.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens if an advance care directive contains statements that require an unlawful act or breach of professional standards?

    <p>The statements requiring unlawful acts or breaches of professional standards are void, but the remainder of the advance care directive is valid.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Under what circumstances can a health practitioner provide treatment if there is an instructional directive?

    <p>The health practitioner may provide clinically indicated treatment if the instructional directive consents to the relevant treatment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used by the NHMRC to refer to Persistent Vegetative State?

    <p>Post-Coma Unresponsiveness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In what circumstances does a duty to treat arise?

    <p>When an individual undertakes care of a dependent person</p> Signup and view all the answers

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