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so im curious how many of you would respond to the following ethical delima
An intern on the CT service has a very difficult patient she has been rounding on for 10 days since admission. It was a trauma nightmare with mult injuries admitted to the trauma service and in the ICU, vented, unconscious, ect. The pt has a transected aorta, but it is stable (ie held together by adventitia) The CT attending plans to operate in an elective fashion but each time before he plans to go to the OR, the something goes wroung, the pt becomes acidemic b/c of bad vent management, the pt aspirates, the trauma team places a trach without telling the CT team, so the surgery keeps getting delayed
Then one morning the chief trauma resident tells the CT intern to tell her CT attending that if they dost operate on the patient soon they will transfer the patient somewhere where the pt will be operated on . . something the CT attending probably wont want to hear.
What do you do???
Do ytou tell your CT attending?
Do you not?
Interesting delima for an intern
An intern on the CT service has a very difficult patient she has been rounding on for 10 days since admission. It was a trauma nightmare with mult injuries admitted to the trauma service and in the ICU, vented, unconscious, ect. The pt has a transected aorta, but it is stable (ie held together by adventitia) The CT attending plans to operate in an elective fashion but each time before he plans to go to the OR, the something goes wroung, the pt becomes acidemic b/c of bad vent management, the pt aspirates, the trauma team places a trach without telling the CT team, so the surgery keeps getting delayed
Then one morning the chief trauma resident tells the CT intern to tell her CT attending that if they dost operate on the patient soon they will transfer the patient somewhere where the pt will be operated on . . something the CT attending probably wont want to hear.
What do you do???
Do ytou tell your CT attending?
Do you not?
Interesting delima for an intern