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This question is for those of you that have more than one hospital that you transport to (BTW, we transport to 16 different hospitals. :blink: )
Do your protocols allow you to override a patient's decision about what hospital they want to be taken to, or are you allowed to attempt to convince them to change their mind?
The reason I ask this it that I've had two pediatric calls recently, where the family wanted to go to "Hospital A". Now this is the same hospital that I was asked why I had a trauma patient on oxygen as I wheeled them into the ER. This is also the same hospital that even if I coded in the ER, I would want to be transported somewhere else.
In both of my recent calls, I was able to convince the family to go to "Hospital B", which is certified to a higher trauma and pediatric level than "Hospital A".
Do your protocols allow you to override a patient's decision about what hospital they want to be taken to, or are you allowed to attempt to convince them to change their mind?
The reason I ask this it that I've had two pediatric calls recently, where the family wanted to go to "Hospital A". Now this is the same hospital that I was asked why I had a trauma patient on oxygen as I wheeled them into the ER. This is also the same hospital that even if I coded in the ER, I would want to be transported somewhere else.
In both of my recent calls, I was able to convince the family to go to "Hospital B", which is certified to a higher trauma and pediatric level than "Hospital A".