ch7 Flashcards
A hospital has two facilities in the same town, but they are six miles apart. Each has an ED. A patient is seen in the North Campus ED. He has a condition requiring immediate treatment by a specialist located at the South Campus. The hospital has two options: require the physician to travel to the North Campus, or transfer the patient to the South Campus. Which of the following is the best answer to the hospital’s dilemma?
Determine what is in the patient’s best interest and the best interests of the other patients the physician is seeing at the time.
A man is seen in the emergency department and is found to have a condition that the hospital is not equipped to treat. Which of the following statements is the best summary of the hospital’s responsiblity to the patient?
Stabilize the condition and transfer him to a hospital that is equipped to treat him properly.
A man is seriously injured in a midnight automobile accident. His life apears to be in jeopardy. Paramedics take him to the nearest hospital, a small facility in a rural hospital that does not have a true emergency department. there is no physician on duty. Which of the following best describes what hte hospital’s staff should do?
Examine the patient and stabilize him the best they can.
Respondeat superior is based on which of the following?
An employer’s responsibility for employees’ work
In which of the following situations is it most likely that expert testimony about the standard of care would not be required?
When a surgical “sponge” was left in a patient’s body
Which of the following is most relevant to the doctrine of corporate liability?
Background checks on clinical personnel?
Ultimate responsibility for the quality of medical care in a hospital rests with which of the following?
The governing board
The law that requires all hospitals to have an emergency department is:
None of these are correct
~PPACA
~EMTALA
~ERISA
EMTALA applies to patients in all of the following areas/situtations except:
All of these are correct.
~is in a hospital-owned ambulance
~Is in any area within 250 yards of the main buildings of a hospital
~ Is brought to a hospital ED by EMS even though the hospital is on diversion
“Emergency medical condition” means the following, except:
Transfer of pregnant patient if there is time for a safe transfer to another hospital before delivery
Negligence in selection and retention of medical staff is a form of which of the following?
Corporate liability
Under the concept of apparent agency, a hospital may be held liable for negligence of a nonemployee if
it reasonably seemed that the individual was authorized to act on behalf of the hospital.
Which of the following statements is the best summary of a hospital’s duty of care in emergency care?
Once care has begun, there is a duty to provide reasonable treatment under the circumstances in the patient’s best interest.
What is the name of the legal doctrine under which a hospital owes a duty directly to the patient?
Corporate liability
When can a patient who appears at a hospital and ask for emergency treatment be transferred to another facility?
After she has been screened and stabilized
