How often do you call med control?

Not directed at anyone, just pointing out

MrBrown said:
Well .... shouldn't a decent assessment and diff dx tell you CHF vs asthma?
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How about CHF concurrent with asthma?

I am not sure that eliminating treatment for one disease based off another disease is always going to work out.

If a CHF patient is having an asthma attack, what do you plan to do?
 
I called medical control once and I got a resident who was around my age ( in his late 20's) who was confused and scared to answer my question. Maybe the main doc on duty was working a code or something not sure...
 
Your preaching to the choir on that one.

While I do enjoy the academic discussions, at the end of the day we all still have to folow our local protocols so any of the "you should or should not do" talk is germane.
 
MS Medic said:
Your preaching to the choir on that one.

While I do enjoy the academic discussions, at the end of the day we all still have to folow our local protocols so any of the "you should or should not do" talk is germane.
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You're onto it mate
 
DrParasite said:
in the state of new jersey, medical control has to be contacted for EVERY ALS patient that you transport to the hospital. EVERY patient.
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Not quite. From what I am told, the project that covers Burlington and Camden Counties doesn't.

However, I have to.
On every patient I lay eyes on.
Whether we transport or not.
Unless its BLS only, and we are in a bus.
Confused yet?

Jersey EMS at its finest....
 
BLSBoy said:
Jersey EMS at its finest....
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On the other hand, if BLS calls, nobody answers. We still have a radio channel to contact the hospital, but nobody at the hospital seems to remember where they left the base station.

Not that we have much reason to call for medical control, but presently, we just show up at the hospital with a patient in tow and no advanced warning.
 
EMSLaw said:
On the other hand, if BLS calls, nobody answers. We still have a radio channel to contact the hospital, but nobody at the hospital seems to remember where they left the base station.

Not that we have much reason to call for medical control, but presently, we just show up at the hospital with a patient in tow and no advanced warning.
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Is that your med control channel, or your HEAR channel?
 
I've never had to call MSEP for orders... Just for termination of working a code.
 
BLSBoy said:
Is that your med control channel, or your HEAR channel?
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HEAR, really. Medical control is spotty at best at the BLS level. Our Squad now has its own medical director (for the last several weeks), but before that I'm not entirely sure who we were operating under.
 
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