What is your ERs policy on unresponsive patients. In the last 3 weeks we have had female patients being brought in unresponsive from local bars and a couple of times the people who came with them and stayed with them turned out to not be friends or family after patient was lucky enough to respond to treatment and recover. In the meantime we are giving them updates on patient and letting them sit with patient (if they are sober and behaving). So far we didn't even think to call police when amb brings patient in, but now I'm thinking we need to call police when patient comes in. Maybe they could do something to verify people with patient actually have a right to be with patient or at least start to keep track of how many times this is happening.
Thanks in advance for your help with this matter. My ER needs to develop some quidelines and we don't have a clue.