EMS - EC handoffs - ER Hallway patients.

[KMATTOX at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/3/2007 11:03:54 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
bryanboling at gmail.com writes:

I don't  see a problem with that as long as they were screened by a nurse
just as  they would have been if they'd walked in...




Hospitals all over this country are not doing a triage prior to sending  
patients from an ambulance to the waiting room.  In the case which  prompted my 
post, an EMT was left on an ambulance stretcher in the waiting room  for several 
hours with a diagnosis of appendicitis.    
 
k
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