United States Eleventh Circuit

Failure to conduct ventilation perfusion scan on emergency room patient diagnosed with pneumonia and possible sepsis or pulmonary embolism does not violate the medical screening provision of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, 42 USC 1395dd, where patient recieved other medical screening and ICU treatment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/10/2001
• Published 01/10/2001

Judges

• BLACK, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON, BIRCH, DUBINA, BLACK, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, MARCUS and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter Loblack,Law Office of Peter Loblack, P.A., Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Miles Ambrose McGrane, McGrane & Nosich, P.A., William G. Edwards, Marlow, Connell, Valerius, Abrams & Adler, Miami, FL, Esther Elisa Galicia, George, Hartz, Lundeen, Flagg & Fulmer, Vanessa Reynolds, Conrad & Scherer, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.