Highlights from the 2017 EMS State of the Science: Gathering of Eagles Retreat & Conference
Forty medical directors from some of the largest population and call volume EMS systems in the U.S. and other countries—representing a cumulative 450+ years of medical direction experience—attended the Eagles' annual Eagle Creek closed retreat in Dallas Texas. The group conducted a lively roundtable of issues being confronted in their systems.
Exact details and discussions are restricted to attendees, but we can say that the following topics were reviewed and considered for future action.
Roundtable of EMS Issues
Airway management
Proper management of patient refusal
Unsafe driving practices
Transporting to free-standing clinics or suburban EDs with no inpatient beds
Management, restraint and transport of psychiatric patients
Rise in demand/call volume
Delays in hospital turnover of patients
Chronic staff vacancies
Increasing costs of Narcan (naloxone)
Rise in opiate overdoses, especially fentanyl
A need to change the way we perform cardiac arrest resuscitation
Budget restraints limiting the purchase of new equipment
Provider stress
Dual paramedics (with one weak provider) and how we can assist them in getting better
System abusers (repeated callers for assistance)
Medication mistakes in the field
Provider credentialing issues (missing lapses and remedial action needed)
Putting trauma kits in areas of mass gatherings
Recruiting medical directors in suburban and rural areas
How can we increase self-reporting
Innovative ways to provide continuing education
Staffing of shi...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: A.J. Heightman, MPA, EMT-P Tags: Administration and Leadership Source Type: news
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