Emergency patient definition

Emergency patient means an individual who is acutely ill, injured, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless and who requires emergency care. The term includes an individual who requires transportation on a litter or cot or is transported in a vehicle certified as an ambulance under IC 16-31-3.

Emergency patient means an individual who is transported to an organized emergency department located in and operated by a hospital licensed under this article or a facility other than a hospital that is routinely available for the general care of medical patients.

Emergency patient means an individual with a physical or mental condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity, including, but not limited to, pain such that a prudent layperson, possessing average knowledge of health and medicine, could reasonably expect to result in 1 or all of the following:

Examples of Emergency patient in a sentence

• Emergency patient transfers from rural hospitals: a regional study.

• Emergency patient care services, national ambulance services in particular, are systems constructed of many components.

• This was particularly concerning given that the target was actually zero and Members had raised the issue on previous occasions and been given assurance that matters would improve.Mr Bonson explained that the issue was mirrored nationally and was not specifically due to Accident and Emergency patient numbers but wider system pressures concerning patient flows throughout the hospital.

• Emergency patient transportation.* * *(c) Emergency patient transportation charges.

• Emergency patient assistance is an important step, especially by providing quick-accessible defibrillators.

More Definitions of Emergency patient

Emergency patient means that term as defined in section 20904.

Emergency patient means an individual who is ill, injured, or otherwise incapacitated and is at risk of needing medical care during transportation by stretcher to or from a health care facility.

Emergency patient means an individual whose

Emergency patient means an individual with a

Emergency patient means a person requiring emergency medical care who is treated and/or transported by an authorized ambulance service provider.

Emergency patient means an individual who is ill, injured, or otherwise incapacitated and is at

Emergency patient means an individual suffering, or believed to be suffering, from a medical emergency as defined in Appendix