If you have determined the pressence of a weapon while transporting

How did you plan on getting the weapon from your patient?  Poeple who carry
concealed weapons do so because they plan to use them.  Say you get the
weapon in your hands.  Can you care for both your patient and a dangerous
weapon at the same time?

Bring the issue up withion you system and develop a general policy to deal
with the situations as making descions on your own can be trickly and you
assume way to much responsibility.

In Montreal, we don't even let peace officers enter into our vehicles with
their weapons charged.   A loaded weapon can exchange hands too quickly in
the limited space of an ambulance.

If you have determined the pressence of a weapon while transporting, time to
back off and get PD help real fast but quiet.  Ask them to meet the vehicle
in the parking of the hospital.  Don't count on security at the hospital to
deal with armed patients.  Once help arrives, the crew should bail out. When
the weapon is gone/secured, care can go on.

tony
Bullets are hard to argue with.