If a doctor suddenly died while doing surgery, would the other doctors work on the doctor or the patient?

Answer 1

I've atually heard of this happening in a hospital where I worked! Freaky hey!

The Dr collapsed during surgery and a theatre nurse and Junior Dr (who was observing went to his aid) whilst the other surgeon (Specialist Registrar) and the rest of the team carried on! They called the crash team for the one who had collapsed and he made a good recovery. The patient was fine too!

Answer 2

Never heard of any doctor dying while working on a patient unless it's a very serious epidemic or a war zone. In later two cases there are good possibilites that other doctors will run for their own lives instead of the patient or the already dead doctor

Answer 3

That is why you have alarge hospital staff, so you don;t have to worry about those things. It was a little different in iraq for us though, we had 2 doctors, both away on a conference, and then we had 6 patients roll in. There were 15 of us, and we did everything, and saved all 6. Out there was different though, if you don't have a doctor you pick up enough to do what you can. Back home things are a little bit different.

Answer 4

in surgery room there are many doctors, one or two would work on the patient and one or two would work on the doctor, so both would be saved....there are also at least 2 nurses there also so each one would help both the patient and the doctor

Answer 5

The patient would be the priority.

The patient is alive but critical.
The doctor is dead

Therefore the patient is in more urgent need of medical attention.

If they try to treat a dead doctor, they are likely to end up with two corpses on their hands.

Answer 6

as you just stated ...the Doctor DIED! !......so why work on a dead Doctor,
so I think they would take a minute and say..hey he is DEAD..lets see if we can save this patient?
and hopefully they can, or at least get someone in there that can...but to kind of answer your question in another way..YES they would all jump to the Doctor and leave the patient on the table by themselves for a minute or two until someone says HEY lets see if we can at least save the patient..then they would remember hey have a patient on the table and try their best, and even maybe get another surgeon in as fast a s they can..

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God Bless

Answer 7

Sadly enough for the patient, they would probably work on the doctor and call more doctors in to work on the patient. Assuming that they want to try to revive the doctor.... the would have to pronounce him dead if he could not be revived. I base this on previous conversationsI have had with a paramedic friend of mine. She was telling me that they save paramedics first. If there is a paramedic and, say, a receptionist lying next to eachother, they would definitely help the paramedic first because paramedics save lives....
I didn't find that too encouraging.

Answer 8

If the doctor had died i'd hope they'd work on the patient, since the patient is still alive

Answer 9

they would try to save the doctor and the patient! if the doctor could be saved they would remove him from the room and do what they needed to elsewhere whilst someone else would come in to cover the patient and carry on saving them...

Answer 10

Another team would be called in immediately to see to the doctor while the patient was being stabilized. It would basically happen all at once.