Emergency patient definition

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 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 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 care equipment required for fixed-wing ambulance certification is maintained in minimum quantities either directly on board the fixed-wing ambulance or available at the time of patient transport.

  • Emergency patient care equipment required for rotorcraft ambulance certification is maintained in minimum quantities either directly on board the rotorcraft ambulance or available at the time of patient transport.

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

  • Emergency patient transport is mainly carried out by the 119 Rescue Team of the National Emergency Management Agency.

  • This could include, but not limited to inspections or audits of the Emergency Ambulance-SP by MOH and/or its appointed agents for compliance with these Standards.2.5 An Emergency Ambulance can ferry an Emergency patient only if all Standards prescribed herein are complied with.2.6 All Emergency Ambulances may attend to and ferry non- emergency patients.


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 suffering, or believed to be suffering, from a medical emergency as defined in Appendix
Emergency patient means an individual who is ill, injured, or otherwise incapacitated and is at
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.