trauma response within the hospital

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Considering the person gives the appearance of being a patient and is on
the hospital grounds, how does EMTALA apply to this?

Tim Noonan.

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:09 -0400, "Robert Smith" <rfsmithmd at comcast.net>
wrote:
> To some, Dr. McSwain's post may seem odd if you're imagining a victim  
> only 40 or 50 yards from your door. But after studying this in some  
> detail, I totally agree. There was a famous case that I'm sure you can  
> read about on line at Ravenswood Hospital in Chicago. Because of the  
> public outrage over how this incident was handled they actually  
> changed the CFD EMS protocols in Chicago so if some hospital DID rush  
> out and bring in some victim out of (?misplaced?) compassion, they  
> could get EMS to respond to the rescuing hospital like it was an  
> emergency. Without something like that in place, you're doing the  
> victim more harm than good if you'r not a trauma center. Even if you  
> are a trauma center, as Dr. McSwain points out, you risk doing harm.  
> And if you intend on rescuing people, you'd better be pretty clear  
> about who, when and where and practice it fairly often.
> 
> Rob Smith

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