[traumanurses] Re: Ortho

["Leiding, Lisa" <Lisa.Leiding@stvin.org>]

How are dealing with EMTALA when one MD will do two femur fractures and then having to transfer patients when another MD is on call and doesn't do it?

Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Burgess [mailto:dburgess@mhg.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:29 AM
To: traumanurses@listserve.com
Subject: [traumanurses] Re: Ortho

We are a level III and do not have a published list of ortho will or
will nots.  Unfortuneately, and probably appropriately, it depends upon
who is on call as they each have different comfort levels with different
types of injuries and procedures.  It may be nice however if we had a
listing of specific types of injuries that would not be addressed by any
of our ortho staff.

I really do not see how there could be a national standard.

Dan P Burgess RN
Memorial Hospital Gulfport

>>> Lisa.Leiding@stvin.org 01/22/04 09:04AM >>>
Another question of the day...do any Level II or III's have
"published"
Ortho section policies on what they will or won't or can't do and that
need
transferred?
I would be interested in knowing what level designation / accreditation
that
you are and the "list".
My Ortho has decided that they need to state what they will and won't
do
here and ultimately it will affect my ability to designate. Are there
national standards for the type of Ortho cases that a Level III should
be
doing versus a Level II?

Thanks
Lisa McLaughlin
Santa Fe, NM
505-820-5708
lisa.leiding@stvin.org

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