Which diagnosis rules?

[Anon]

After an ER visit and resulting hospital admission, which diagnosis rules and goes on any forms? Is it the initial diagnosis from the ER doc, the diagnosis from the specialist that ultimately provided treatment and discharged the patient (which is different) or all of them?

 

[TCABM]

All, some, or none depending in the form.

 

[GaryM]

Would not the FAA look at all of the diagnoses, and zero in on only the most serious and most likely to ground the pilot?
Or am I being cynical?

 

[2-Bit Speed]

Would not the FAA look at all of the diagnoses, and zero in on only the most serious and most likely to ground the pilot?
Or am I being cynical?

I don't think you're being cynical enough. They'll look at every diagnosis which could ground the pilot.

 

[Lindberg]

After an ER visit and resulting hospital admission, which diagnosis rules and goes on any forms? Is it the initial diagnosis from the ER doc, the diagnosis from the specialist that ultimately provided treatment and discharged the patient (which is different) or all of them?

Are you referring to the Medxpress form? If so, it asks about conditions you've had and diagnoses ever. So if you were diagnosed, even in error, you disclose it. And explain that the diagnosis was in error and corrected. But only disclose what you were diagnosed with, not everything it could have been or something you were "suspected" to have.

 

[WingmanMed]

Depends on what they were/are. In general it is going to be the final diagnosis that matters unless there were unrelated diagnoses. For example, if the ER diagnosed you with "dyspnea" which is difficulty breathing, that really is a symptom and not a final diagnosis. The FAA will want to know why you had dyspnea. If you were admitted and the pulmonologist diagnosed you with COPD then that is the diagnosis that really matters and has to be addressed.

Meanwhile when you fill out MedXPress you'll list COPD under the 18f for "asthma or lung disease" and you'll list the ER visit for dyspnea under the "visited any health professionals."