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ER Report Ignores EMS Assessment, Actions
I'm fine. I don't have any grounds for or intention of seeking damages. I wasn't damaged. This truly is a principle of the thing situation. Moreover, I didn't get the hospital records because I had a complaint; I got them: 1. because I think patients should keep copies of their own records... -
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ER Report Ignores EMS Assessment, Actions
The EMS and Hospital are separate entities. I've written the EMS and told them I thought they did a great job. As for the Hospital, I filed a request that my Medical Records be amended, specifically, that the statement that I "became dizzy and came to the ER for further evaluation" be revised... -
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ER Report Ignores EMS Assessment, Actions
I thought 33 minutes or whatever turn-around between calls pretty quick since I assumed that the team would be interviewed about its report by the ER staff and have a bunch of forms to fill out. And then I read somewhere that EMS teams have to decontaminate the ambulance themselves before... -
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ER Report Ignores EMS Assessment, Actions
Right! 17:02. No time travel was involved. My memory is that as soon as I arrived the ER crew got busy. I was in a bigger than I'd ever seen room in the ER, having never before come in an ambulance, one with posters on the wall telling nurse 1, nurse 2, nurse 3, etc. where to stand and what... -
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ER Report Ignores EMS Assessment, Actions
Well, the EMS crew reports arriving at hospital at 16:29 and last sentence of Assessment is "Reports and care to staff." The EMS crew is available for call at 15:02. The Hospital has arrival at 4:32 pm, Time Care Began/Triage at 4:45, and Disposition at 4:54. I don't know what happened... -
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ER Report Ignores EMS Assessment, Actions
I also wrote this, as well as a thank-you to my local service: In Praise of EMTs and Paramedics: http://havealittletalk.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/in-praise-of-emts-and-paramedics/ You all are my heroes. -
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ER Report Ignores EMS Assessment, Actions
Thanks, I have already written a thank-you letter to the EMS. I know the ER MD received the EMS report because there is a box for the Physician Signature in the middle of the EMS report page, and it is signed, and that same name appears on the Emergency Dep't. Discharge Summary to admit me to... -
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ER Report Ignores EMS Assessment, Actions
My life was saved by an EMS team that spent 22 minutes stabilizing me before transport to ER. Their Assessment noted I had vomited about 300 ml of blood with many golfball sized clots before they arrived and another 100-200ml after. They immediately started oxygen (I lost consciousness...