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Immediate care is necessary to preserve life or prevent serious
serious harm. The appropriate supervising practitioner must be
contacted and apprised of the situation as soon as possible. The
resident must document the nature of that discussion in the patient's
record.
impairment. The supervising practitioner has been contacted.
An emergency is defined as a situation where immediate care is
necessary to preserve the life of, or to prevent serious impairment of
the health of a patient. In such situations, any resident, assisted by
medical center personnel, will, consistent with the informed consent
provisions of VHA Handbook 1004.1, be permitted to do everything
possible to save the life of a patient or to save a patient from
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