Originally Posted by DocRocket
We also agreed that if LE came in and said they needed to draw blood from an unconscious patient, it's not our policy nor our job to prevent that happening. The courts can decide if the blood is admissible or not.


Are patients suffering extensive burns at increased risk of infection/negative outcomes and specific treatment practices in place to minimize such risks, including restricting access to these patients?

The nurse refusing police access to the patient was the Burn Unit Head Nurse. Was the burn victim still an ED patient? It sounds like the victim was a burn unit patient, but that the interaction between Head Nurse Wuddel and Detective Payne took place in the ED as that's where Detective Payne made his request for access to the patient for the purpose of making a blood draw.


Originally Posted by 16penny
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