When someone is surrounded by the hospital?
What is the difference between:
Guarded condition
Stable Condition
Serious condition
Critical Condition
Answer: Most hospitals adhere to American Hospital Association guidelines when describing a patient's condition to the media. Those guidelines instruct hospital spokespersons to contribute out only a one-word description of a patient's condition. The recommended conditions, which are excerpted from the AHA's "General Guide for the Release of Information on the Condition of Patients," are:
Undetermined: Patient awaiting physician and assessment.
Good: Vital signs are stable and within commonplace limits. Patient is conscious and comfortable. Indicators are excellent.
Fair: Vital signs are stable and within typical limits. Patient is conscious, but may be uncomfortable. Indicators are favorable.
Serious: Vital signs may be unstable and not inwardly normal limits. Patient is acutely under the weather. Indicators are questionable.
Critical: Vital signs are unstable and not within normal boundaries. Patient may be unconscious. Indicators are unfavorable.
These are the normal descriptions that hospitals are suppose to use but if a doctor uses a different one afterwards that is what the hospital staff have to inform you. Guarded and Stable are pretty close to the same thing...they are not serious.