EMS - EC handoffs - ER Hallway patients.

[David Sullivan]

If we have a pt that is going to "triage" then we are told that when we give our CMED patch to the hospital. 9 times out of 10, our pts are brought into a room and treated by the staff, depending of the priority of the pt of course. 
   
  

KMATTOX at aol.com wrote:
  
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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