Emergency checkin procedures

[Joel Peshkin]

Daniel Berlin wrote:

> I'm with vlad.
>
>The way it was said was like a father talking to a bunch of kids.
>It was simply not necessary to say it.
>"If you kids don't behave, we'll turn this car right around"
>  
>

I think lpsolit and I set justdave up on this......

We suggested the relaxed rules with the anti-abuse provision.  It was 
modeled on the way that paramedics are allowed to stray from the 
established rules when they cannot reach a base hospital but have the 
exceptions reviewed after the fact.

we told justdave....
 >>>  well, if we don't want to loose this "privilege", we (reviewers) 
have no interest in abusing it
 >>> This is the same thing we had when I used to moonlight as a medic.
 >>> There werre all sorts of standing orders, then the list of things 
you could do if ordered by a command doc....
 >>> if you had to deviate and go "on protocol", you were expected to 
document exactly how the criteria were met and ALL such incidemts were 
reviewed to make sure you didnt overstep.