Hopefully I make it to Crash and Burn in Utah.
Not sure if we're hosting our conference this year or not, we've been on a 2 year Covid Hiatus.
Way too much goes into planning just to have to cancel it at the last minute.
A service shouldn't allow intubation in 2021 if they don't stock bougies.
I'll take it one further, if your service isn't spending covid money on video layrngoscopy they should no longer allow intubation.
Around here, waiting room patients are registered.
ETA: all hospitals I've been too, track which service brought the patient in. Errors are made, but for the most part accurate. There is always something to trace it back.
I've never worked anywhere that required a signature from a nurse unless the patient was incapable of signing. Those are billing signatures, nothing more.
We're going to reconsider it next fall when there is hopefully more data. Right now judging off local numbers, there doesn't seem to be much benefit in vaccinating our oldest (8).