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You are correct, EMTALA regulations provide for required response of 250 yards.  To comply with this provision, we have a 'street call' team in our E.D. which includes an E.D. attending physician 24/7.  While they mainly respond to calls in a clinical facility directly across the street from the Center (as mandated by EMTALA, since the clinics use the same "Medicare identity)," they also retrieve the rare smurf and/or GSW deposited the E.D. ambulance bay.  
 


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Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:05:16 -0700


By EMTALA standards aren't you responsible for all patients in and around your hospital, I seem to recall the figure of 200 yards. 



From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of McSwain, Norman E Jr.
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 8:52 AM
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Subject: RE: trauma response within the hospital




By protocol EMS handles everything outside the walls of the hospital. We might try to respond but it is not the standard nor the protocol. Our ED personnel are not trained nor equipped for proper field response. 
 

Norman
 
Norman McSwain MD
Trauma Director, Charity Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Tulane University
New Orleans LA
504 988 5111
norman.mcswain at tulane.edu



From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org on behalf of Gad Shaked
Sent: Sun 8/2/2009 10:51 AM
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Subject: trauma response within the hospital



Dear friends,
I would like to know your protocols for trauma response for incidents occurring within the hospital,  i.e in the parking lot, suicide attempt (like jumping off the roof of the hospital) etc. Not for ER or ward patients. Who is responding, from where they get the equipment, do they also do the rescue if needed?
Thanks,
Gadi


Gadi Shaked, MD
Department of Surgery
Trauma Unit
Soroka University Medical Center
Beer Sheva
Israel‎
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