New Run Form Changes Patient Care In The Air

Flight EMS is a specialized type of prehospital patient work. You're away from the ground network, in a cramped space, often with a very medically complicated patient that has a lot of individual issues going on. The documentation of a critically ill patient is crucial to the medical—and financial—success of an EMS organization. One EMS entity, Air Medical Group Holdings (AMGH), seized an opportunity to improve documentation of the critically ill in an effort to better protect their providers with more extensive data on a call, all while also improving upon their recouped revenue from calls of this nature. Care In Flight The challenge that AMGH wanted to address was how to do a better job of collecting more complete data for the betterment of our patients, providers and organization on the whole. One of our hurdles to overcome was finding fields that were meaningful to providers across the many states that we provide services for. The documentation of a critical care patient is extensive. A patient of this nature is commonly being administered multiple medications at any given time; they're on a 12-lead monitor; they have numerous pumps; they could also be on a ventilator for their respiratory drive. Furthermore, in flight transports, you're documenting various items concerned with the aircraft and flight crew. Consultation with our network of providers, in addition to working with subject matter experts at ImageTrend, helped us find an effective solution. The Run Form AM...
Source: JEMS Operations - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Operations Source Type: news