If a doctor suddenly died while doing surgery, would the other doctors work on the doctor or the patient?
Someone asked me this and wondered what you thought
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Theres probably health and safety issues to considered first, after a few pointless meetings and more time and money wasted maybe they'd get round to the patient on the table and doctor laying on the floor!?
Yes
Its a hospital there's only like 200 doctors and 500 nurses there...
OR Tech
The patient the doctor is already dead.
On the doctor because the doctor already died
well if the doctor died, there would be no point to work on him....so definitely the patient
they call in the crash team to work on the doctor whilst doing there best to work on the patient!
If the doctor died there wouldn't be much point in working on him would there?
I'd say I'm pretty sure they'd have a team to try and revive the doctor and have another doctor finish the surgery.
What an interesting question. But if he DIED then theres not much a doctor can do. Id imagine,if the patient in surgery were stable at that moment,theyd start with the doctor and call in other doctors to finish surgery or theyd finish surgery when the new doctors came in for the dead doc.
Uh, duh, the patient.
The patient obviously,since the doctor is dead any way and you can do nothing about it.
Yes, surgeons usually have an assistant surgeon to help them out, especially in neurosurgery and in cardiac surgery.
Likely another team of docs would be simultaneously resuscitating the fallen surgeon while the back up worked to stabilize the patient.
I'm going to assume it's a him, OK.
There would be no point in working on him if he was dead. Unless there was a chance to resuscitate him, of course.
In any case, as most doctor's surgeries run late, I'm sure the patient could wait a bit longer.
Why would they work on a dead doctor? he's dead! But I do think they would move him out of the way first before working on the patient
and probably check to see if he is really dead too
If the doctor "DIED" then why would they work on him?
THey would continue working on the patient.
Technically, if you are in surgery and you are cut open, they cant stop working on you. THey need to finish that first. If however your surgery has not begun and the doctor collapsed, they could work on the doctor.
Notice the difference is what stage the surgery is in and is the doctor dead or alive.
If he was really dead there would be no point working on him.
both cause they would just take the doctor in another room and try to find out about him
Ok if everybody in O R dies, where would they bury the survivors?
The assistant surgeon would assume operating responsibilities and the OR nurse would initiate a code (CPR) until the code team from the hospital or the paramedics if it was in a free standing surgery center arrived.
I work in a hospital & people (not doctors yet) die all the time. We still have to call a "code Blue" and initiate CPR, even if they've been dead for a few minutes.
But if your situation happened, the assistant surgeon would be leagally responisible to attending to the patient, assuming the surgery was already underway.
The patient
What sort of doctor allows himself to work without checking himself as fit to work?
actually depends on status of both.
There is enough medical training to handle both simultaniously in most OPS.
But I think it would also depend ons status.
If patient is stable and ok and can be monitored by somebody, the others could go after the doctor, if serious enough until others get in to help on both patients.
definately the patient but they would have to be careful not to step on the doctor who is presumably lying in a heap next to them
and who may cause them to stumble
both, there must be so many doctors in the hospital
but the patient first
I am sorry, but this is a really stupid question!!!!!
Please give me 10 points. Thank you
They would have an assistant step in to continue the operation
somebody was watching Diagnosis Murder the other day!! coz thats exactly what happened!
and by the way the doctor died. the iodine was poisoned, but the patient had antibiotics in the iv drip so he didnt die, just the surgeon!
none they'll spend ages deciding and by then there will be no point deciding
During surgery there's at least two docs present and sometimes more. They would call a code to work on the doc, meanwhile the 2nd assistant would take over the surgery until some decision were made, sometimes the assistant isn't necessarily a surgeon. Some hospitals have special protocols in place so everyone knows exactly what to do. It's a pretty rare situation.
first reaction from the other doctors/nurses in the OR would be: to check the doctor's ABC's = airway, breathing and circulation.. if these are secured, they would most likely transfer the unfortunate surgeon to another room and continue on with the patient. =) ofcourse, there are other people inside the OR, so not all of the doctors and nurses would give their attention to the unfortunate doctor unless necessary. =)
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Answers:
Theres probably health and safety issues to considered first, after a few pointless meetings and more time and money wasted maybe they'd get round to the patient on the table and doctor laying on the floor!?
Yes
Its a hospital there's only like 200 doctors and 500 nurses there...
OR Tech
The patient the doctor is already dead.
On the doctor because the doctor already died
well if the doctor died, there would be no point to work on him....so definitely the patient
they call in the crash team to work on the doctor whilst doing there best to work on the patient!
If the doctor died there wouldn't be much point in working on him would there?
I'd say I'm pretty sure they'd have a team to try and revive the doctor and have another doctor finish the surgery.
What an interesting question. But if he DIED then theres not much a doctor can do. Id imagine,if the patient in surgery were stable at that moment,theyd start with the doctor and call in other doctors to finish surgery or theyd finish surgery when the new doctors came in for the dead doc.
Uh, duh, the patient.
The patient obviously,since the doctor is dead any way and you can do nothing about it.
Yes, surgeons usually have an assistant surgeon to help them out, especially in neurosurgery and in cardiac surgery.
Likely another team of docs would be simultaneously resuscitating the fallen surgeon while the back up worked to stabilize the patient.
I'm going to assume it's a him, OK.
There would be no point in working on him if he was dead. Unless there was a chance to resuscitate him, of course.
In any case, as most doctor's surgeries run late, I'm sure the patient could wait a bit longer.
Why would they work on a dead doctor? he's dead! But I do think they would move him out of the way first before working on the patient
and probably check to see if he is really dead too
If the doctor "DIED" then why would they work on him?
THey would continue working on the patient.
Technically, if you are in surgery and you are cut open, they cant stop working on you. THey need to finish that first. If however your surgery has not begun and the doctor collapsed, they could work on the doctor.
Notice the difference is what stage the surgery is in and is the doctor dead or alive.
If he was really dead there would be no point working on him.
both cause they would just take the doctor in another room and try to find out about him
Ok if everybody in O R dies, where would they bury the survivors?
The assistant surgeon would assume operating responsibilities and the OR nurse would initiate a code (CPR) until the code team from the hospital or the paramedics if it was in a free standing surgery center arrived.
I work in a hospital & people (not doctors yet) die all the time. We still have to call a "code Blue" and initiate CPR, even if they've been dead for a few minutes.
But if your situation happened, the assistant surgeon would be leagally responisible to attending to the patient, assuming the surgery was already underway.
The patient
What sort of doctor allows himself to work without checking himself as fit to work?
actually depends on status of both.
There is enough medical training to handle both simultaniously in most OPS.
But I think it would also depend ons status.
If patient is stable and ok and can be monitored by somebody, the others could go after the doctor, if serious enough until others get in to help on both patients.
definately the patient but they would have to be careful not to step on the doctor who is presumably lying in a heap next to them
and who may cause them to stumble
both, there must be so many doctors in the hospital
but the patient first
I am sorry, but this is a really stupid question!!!!!
Please give me 10 points. Thank you
They would have an assistant step in to continue the operation
somebody was watching Diagnosis Murder the other day!! coz thats exactly what happened!
and by the way the doctor died. the iodine was poisoned, but the patient had antibiotics in the iv drip so he didnt die, just the surgeon!
none they'll spend ages deciding and by then there will be no point deciding
During surgery there's at least two docs present and sometimes more. They would call a code to work on the doc, meanwhile the 2nd assistant would take over the surgery until some decision were made, sometimes the assistant isn't necessarily a surgeon. Some hospitals have special protocols in place so everyone knows exactly what to do. It's a pretty rare situation.
first reaction from the other doctors/nurses in the OR would be: to check the doctor's ABC's = airway, breathing and circulation.. if these are secured, they would most likely transfer the unfortunate surgeon to another room and continue on with the patient. =) ofcourse, there are other people inside the OR, so not all of the doctors and nurses would give their attention to the unfortunate doctor unless necessary. =)
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