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Prehospital Sedation | June 15 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #agitation #delirium #disruptive behavior #intervention #sedation
In this presentation, Dr. Whitney Barrett, MD discusses prehospital behavioral sedation following the framework of identify, treat, know your options, and manage. Dr. Barrett reviews the categories of agitated, but cooperative, disruptive without danger, and delirium with severe agitation and ...
Date added: 06/15/23
Psychiatric Emergencies | June 6th 2023
Psychiatric emergencies can include suicidal and homicidal behavior, psychosis, agitation, anxiety, substance use disorders, depression, mania, and a host of related and overlapping medical problems, such as delirium and dementia. In this presentation Dr. Petter Overton-Harris discusses these psych emergencies ...
Date added: 06/6/23
Pain Management | May 18th 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #pain #pain managment
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. In this presentation, Dr. Christian Garcia discusses how to define and assess pain, how to recognize key features ...
Date added: 05/18/23
Death Notification/Delivering Hard News | May 2nd 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical Community
Death touches all providers and in impactful ways. In this presentation Dr. Neal Nettesheim discusses the process in which we notify friends/family of someones death. This burden often falls to the prehospital provider. Having framework for delivering this news (such ...
Date added: 05/2/23
Patient Refusal and Capacity Assessment | April 20th 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #AMA #capacity #competency #ethics #refusal
In this presentation, Dr. Michael Lauria shares key factors on patient refusal and capacity assessment in th realm of emergency medicine and care. These factors include: ethics and legality, allowing refusal or forcing transport, capacity assessment, mental health and refusal, ...
Date added: 04/20/23
Documentation | April 4th 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical Community
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #documentation #ems
In this presentation Paul Craven, MD, discusses the importance of documentation in the emergency department setting. He covers the need of proper documentation, the different formats, best practices and how to improve documentation.
Date added: 04/4/23
Bottom of the Drug Box | March 16th 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical Community
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #ems #medication #medication administration #Pharmacology
In this presentation Clinton Kalan, MMSc, PA-C discusses how to recognize indications for use and contraindications for several EMS Medications, understand need for job aids and cognitive offloading in infrequently performed tasks, apply dosing and administration strategies in the rural ...
Date added: 03/16/23
Tox Emergencies | March 7th, 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #accidental overdose #ems #poison #tox
Toxic insults can make up to 10 % of EMS calls, range from intentional SI to accidents to environmental exposures. In this presentation, Elizabeth J Melton, MSN, AGACNP, NRP, discusses varied toxicology emergencies and how they present as well as ...
Date added: 03/7/23
Managing Acute Dyspnea | February 16, 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #asthma #breathing #dyspnea #ems #SOB
In this didactic training Dr. Chelsea White shares the varied presentations of dyspnea in the field and how recognize and treat each scenario following best practices.
Date added: 02/16/23
Sepsis in EMS | February 7th 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #antibiotics #ems #infection #sepsis
Sepsis is the body's life-threatening reaction to an infection. In the United States, sepsis affects 1.7 million people and takes 270,000 lives. As many as 87% of sepsis cases originate in the patient's community. EMS and prehospital practitioners are often ...
Date added: 02/7/23