�change sur les pr�-notification pour IDMs confirm�s I am in Evansville, Indiana. I have only been here for a couple of years, but right before I moved here, we had 3 hospitals and one of the bigger hospitals bought and closed the downtown hospital leaving us with only 2 hospitals and ERs, which are completely overwhelmed. I have heard comments from guys who have been here for a long time like, no we don't need 3 ERs, hehehe. I have brought in patients who are intubated, called report and when I walked in, they saw me bagging the patient and they are all just standing there looking at me wondering what I was doing! I have put chest pains in the hallway without monitors, asthma patients in the hallway on portable tanks, etc. I do document everything that is done on my part in order to get the patient the best care possible, including a better room assignment that a hallway. Thanks for your advise. Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Saffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 7:22 AM Subject: Re: Prehospital 12 Lead - Impact > At 06:56 AM 3/11/02 -0600, you wrote: > >Just curious, if you perform a 12 lead and it shows a MI, how do you notify your receiving facility of a pt coming in with an acute MI. > > We notify by radio. Since we only do notifications on acute patients, we generally get the hospitals' attention. If we notify, we get a room assignment right away, sometimes over the air. > > >We don't call report to our hospitals unless the patient is critical and then only sometimes. Even when we call report our hospitals are too busy for the most part to do anything about it. Most of the time when we take a patient in, the response from the triage nurse is , "hallway please, what is the last name." I have told them many times that my patient does not need to be in the hallway, but that is where we almost always end up going! Any suggestions. > > Make sure that you document the crap out of the call. When the big law suit comes, and it will, you want to be as bullet proof as possible. I don't know where you are, but this is a disaster waiting to happen. You just don't want to be at the bottom of the crap flow when it happens. > > Gary A not� que le 12 d�riv�es pr�hosp a d'autant plus de valeur dans les r�gions qui on peine a instaurer le "door to needle" de 20 min. Chez nous ? Charles Brault EMT-P __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
