Emergency Situations” Please respond to the following:
- Suppose you work in a hospital that just received twelve patients
from a disaster event in your community. Your hospital is able to treat
and provide necessary surgical services to those that require surgery.
However, five patients are refusing care and requesting to be
transferred to another hospital for the same services. Suggest the
course of action that the hospital should take to meet the standards of
the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) related to
public health in your community. Provide at least two (2) specific
examples to support your rationale. - Imagine that an unidentified individual with a gunshot wound has
been transported to the emergency room. After taking the victim into
surgery, the medical team realizes the individual is a minor. Examine
the kind of consent that the team should obtain, and determine the
resources that they could utilize in order to obtain this consent.
