After a Stressful CT Scan on a Patient,you Are Confronted

question 6

Multiple Choice

After a stressful CT scan on a patient,you are confronted by the patient's family regarding the results of the examination.The patient was in a motor vehicle accident and has a severe head injury.The images you took are being sent to a "Nighthawk" reading service and will not be available for several minutes.The family insists they have a "right" to know the results immediately so they can make a decision about organ donation.How would you rationalize this situation to yourself as an imaging professional?

• A) Your duty as a professional is to complete a quality CT examination quickly,not to interpret the images,and to do no harm to the patient.
• B) You tell the family what you saw on the images as an act of veracity.
• C) You tell the emergency department nurse about the images as an act of nonmaleficence.
• D) You call the organ donor program director to tell him of the patient's condition as an act of fidelity.

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