2007-01-20 19:37:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Doctor has already died, so treat the patient
2007-01-20 20:34:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hahaha id say it depends on how well liked the doctor was in that particular hospital, but asuming the availability of sufficient medical personel, one doctor would work on the patient and everyone else would work on the doctor, hahaah they always take care of thier own.everyone does. if your father was having a heart attack infront of you and six others were doing the same right next to him, who would you try to help. how about your best friend or someone you didnt know? those are answers you can give yourself that would lead you to this answer, plus the docotrs could reason if the doctor dies, many patients will die, while this patient represents only one life, but the hospital may have a protocal that dictates helping the patient first if there is only one available doctor.
2007-01-21 04:48:58 · answer #2 · answered by pedroh 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Legally, the other staff in the room would be responsible for their patient, the one being operated on. If they were to change focus to the doctor and something were to happen to the patient they could be charged with abandonment and possibly negligence. However, if the patient was stable they would undoubtedly try to help the doctor, remove him from the OR, and call a code team to come help him.
As far as sterility goes, the doctor's death doesn't change the sterility of the theater so long as he is removed prior to his care (as opposed to others entering to take care of him). He already scrubbed in to enter the room; his death wouldn't suddenly create new germs.
2007-01-21 05:41:30 · answer #3 · answered by timemutt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the doctor died, there would be nothing left to work on, however, the other doctors and nurses would split and some would work on both until other doectos could be called in to work on the doctor.
2007-01-21 03:46:02 · answer #4 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The doctors would not work on the dead doctor, a medical examiner would. The doctors will also have to be scrubbed again and switch to a different operating room since it was no longer sterile.
2007-01-21 03:47:13 · answer #5 · answered by E.A.C. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would work on the patient, because the doctor would be dead.
2007-01-21 03:39:58 · answer #6 · answered by Daniel C 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
both.. they can page other doctors to work on the doctor and i know for a fact that the nurses at the or are also well-trained on first aid..
2007-01-21 05:37:54 · answer #7 · answered by mcsteamyandme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I f during an operation in the theater the surgeon died there are assistants to the surgeon always one of them should continue the operation
2007-01-21 03:45:19 · answer #8 · answered by fiabounaaj 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they would probably page another doctor to take care of the situation
2007-01-21 03:44:49 · answer #9 · answered by ishybug03 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he is dead not.
But if he faints and due to a bolus, they can operate immediately and sometimes with success
2007-01-21 05:44:32 · answer #10 · answered by maussy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋