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Emergency doctor

Perhaps, it is possible to call a profession of the emergency doctor one of the most difficult and responsible among all medical specialties. He has to know well not only the theory, but also to perfectly know many practical skills. Quite often there are such situations when on diagnosis the emergency doctor has only several minutes and at the same time he has no opportunity to use laboratory or tool diagnostic methods, to consult with the colleagues. Therefore he has to know in perfection such medical specialties as therapy, neurology, surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, resuscitation, to be familiar with pathology of ENT organs and an organ of sight.

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What qualities the emergency doctor has to have?

Proceeding from features of work, the following qualities have to be inherent in any doctor of the ambulance and acute management:

Good physical and mental health;
Excellent medical observation and logic;
Speed of reaction and ability to keep calm in any situation;
Knowledge of the main medical emergencies, ability to carry out their diagnosis and treatment at a pre-hospital stage;
Ability to find contact, both with the patient, and with his relatives. In certain cases consultation of the emergency doctor can be required also by them;
Modesty, discipline, decency, cleanliness;
Ability to support the authority among all employees of crew.

Duties of the emergency doctor

Before watch the emergency doctor has to accept personally necessary medical tools, laying with medicines.

Control of a condition of all employees of crew also belongs to duties of the emergency doctor. If during watch the doctor notices at any of them signs of alcoholic intoxication or an illness, then he is obliged to discharge immediately them of work and to report about it to the manager and the dispatcher.

After receipt of a call the emergency doctor has to specify a surname of the patient, his age and the address at the dispatcher. Departure is carried out within one minute from the moment of its receiving. In all the time of performance of departure it is forbidden to disconnect a radio communication.

In case of impossibility of timely departure on a call the emergency doctor is obliged to inform immediately on it the dispatcher that allows to transfer a call to other crew timely.

Treat duties of the emergency doctor:

Carrying out and rendering competent and free medical care by the patient;
Transportation of victims and patients in a hospital;
Ability is correct to estimate the general condition of the patient and to choose for it the most optimum way of carrying and transportation. Carrying of the patient on a stretcher is one of types of medical care and, respectively, is one more duty of the emergency doctor;
At refusal of hospitalization to take all measures to convince both the patient, and his relatives in its need. If it does not manage to be made, then to give necessary help, to make record about refusal of hospitalization in the card of a call and to report about it to the dispatcher for transfer of an active call to the district doctor of policlinic;
Being along the line and in case of a meeting with accident, the emergency doctor is obliged to stop the car, to report about it to the dispatcher and to start assistance;
At delivery of health care he has to act resolutely and quickly, rendering it in full. If necessary the emergency doctor has the right to call specialized crew to the patient;
Consultation of the emergency doctor can be rendered only in an oral form. He has no right to hand out any references or the conclusions to patients, their relatives or any officials.

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