Emergency Situations Discussion, health and medicine homework help

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“Emergency Situations"

  • 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.

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Emergency Situations
According to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), when a
patient comes to a hospital emergency department, the hospital is obligated to conduct medical
screening and examination of the patient to decide if the patient has an emergency condition
(ACEP (2016)). If patient has an emergency medical condition, they are to be further treated and
examined by the hospital to stabilize the condition. However, the hospital can transfer the patient
into another hospital if it ...


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