205.04A Hospital Diversion Management Plan

Question 0

_______ are the official terms used in AEMS policies to route 911 system patients away from the facility that is saturated or overcrowded to the point that emergency department resources are unavailable.

Answer 0

Diversion/bypass

Question 1

Any condition where the absence of medical attention could: placed the patient’s health in serious jeopardy, serious impairment of bodily function, serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part, is defined as _______.

Answer 1

Emergency medical condition

Question 2

What are the acceptable prehospital diversion categories?

Answer 2

Emergency department saturation

Trauma service saturation

Facility internal disaster/equipment failure

Question 3

When the entire system is overloaded (many facilities on diversion), all facilities _______.

Answer 3

Must open

Question 4

Critical patients with uncontrollable medical problems will always be triage to the _______ emergency department.

Answer 4

Closest appropriate emergency department