I didn't see this posted so thought I would share.
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It may not be so the ED doesn't get upset. If a patient needs an intervention that can be provided by EMS, waiting to do it for an 8 minute transport means the patient doesn't get it for 8 minutes+the time to move them to a bed + the time to wait for a nurse and give report + the time to get a doctor to write orders + the time to register the patient + the time for the RN to grab it from the PYXIS.Stay and play why? The kid was in the river 14 hours already right? Again, everyone runs calls different, but I've never been the one to say...sit outside the ER and do things so the ER doesn't get upset I don't have an IV or advanced airway.
Agreed, no reason to sit around on that kind of call. You can hook up leads and start an IO en route.Stay and play why? The kid was in the river 14 hours already right? Again, everyone runs calls different, but I've never been the one to say...sit outside the ER and do things so the ER doesn't get upset I don't have an IV or advanced airway.
It may not be so the ED doesn't get upset. If a patient needs an intervention that can be provided by EMS, waiting to do it for an 8 minute transport means the patient doesn't get it for 8 minutes+the time to move them to a bed + the time to wait for a nurse and give report + the time to get a doctor to write orders + the time to register the patient + the time for the RN to grab it from the PYXIS.
We can't think of our care or responsibility ending the moment we pull up on the ED pad. We should put the patients in the best position possible to extend their care into the ED, not roll the uncontrolled chaos of a scene into an ED room as we run screaming to the hospital and get nothing done. There are times to transport quickly, there are times to perform some interventions on scene, and there are times when something needs to be done in the ED bay before you bring them inside.
Intubating a kid is one of the things that I would much rather be stopped to do.That's why you do it in en route....