Name | Value |
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ATTENDING CODE NAME | LEVEL E: EMERGENCY CARE, ATTENDING CONTACTED ASAP |
CODE | E |
DESCRIPTION | 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 |