The Emergency Room

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that you have. For instance a possible heart attach victim will have care over someone that is hurting from stomach pain. That is what the triage nurse does; they classify your medical needs. The nurse then records your vital signs and gets a history of current medical complaints, past medical problems and medication and allergies. A nurse will see you in the room and get you settled in by having you put on a medical gown which is easy for the examination the doctor will give you. Go over your statistics that read by taking your blood pressure, respiration, temp again. After that is recorded a doctor will soon see you. When the emergency med doctor comes in to see you he gathers more medical information about you. He then formulates a differential diagnosis, and list of possible cause for your symptoms. After the most likely diagnosis is determined diagnostic tests are required which may include a urinalysis or blood test by a trained phlebotomist/lab assistant. Maybe an ...

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anyone that may have a laceration from small to large. A portable Ex-ray machine on wheels that takes picture to see beneath your skin. A papoose is a soft board which a patient is restrained so you cannot move while having stitches put in.
There are many legal and medical issues today that relates to patient safety. A study done by Kaiser indicates that medication errors have double in the last ten years and that serious injuries have gone from thirty-five thousand in nineteen ninety eight to ninety thousand in two thousand nine. Those errors occur by a breakdown in one of many steps that go into the giving of those medications to patients. Those areas of breakdown occur in ...

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