Junior doctors should not be leading major trauma resus.
paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cartwright [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 17:11
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Police reform act
--- "Black, John" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Is any one anxious about junior Ed doctors assessing
> competence in conscious
> RTC patients? I can envisage this assessment being
> challenged on a regular
> basis in the courts.
>
If you are talking about the new ruling I don't think
competence is an issue because the sample is only
tested when the patient is able to give consent. As to
competence issues they remain the same as before. If a
patient refuses to give a sample and later claims they
weren't competent and thus their refusal is not valid
then junior doctors end up in court being asked about
their assessment and challenged on it if they say they
feel they were competent. I was 20 years ago during my
first A&E SHO job!
Cheers Fred.
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