The Emergency Care of the VIP Patient

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Abstract
The unexpected arrival of an influential person at a hospital's emergency department is an occasional event for which personnel at all levels of the emergency care system must be prepared. The issues raised by the psychiatric care of celebrities have been well elucidated,1 2 3 4 5 but little has been written about the medical, administrative, and logistic problems encountered in rendering emergency care to very important persons (VIPs).The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations requires all hospitals to have a written disaster plan for incidents that, because of their magnitude, can be expected to overwhelm the standard operating routines of . . .

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