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Can You Invoke The Acuity Caveat for a Critical Care Case?

Published on Wed Oct 19, 2016

Question: Does invoking the ED acuity caveat impact assigning critical care for the patient in the following case? Texas Subscriber Chief Complaint: Fever and unresponsive HPI: Unable to attain from patient. This 82-year-old male arrives from a nursing home. He is unresponsive and has a full code order. Report from nursing home is that the onset of symptoms was gradual and [...]
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