EMS DIVISION
REMINDER! QA PROCESS We continue to follow our QA process through ImageTrend. This process has been updated and streamlined to where only those on the chart (typically just the author and Captain) will get the QA. If you get an email from ImageTrend letting you know you have a message, PLEASE go read the message and take advantage of improving your charts. We obviously are only doing QA so as to make each author become better at charting and ensuring excellent treatment is given. No one person is perfect and learning how to improve is imperative to any success. We put hard work into providing QA and if you don’t check the Image Trend message then that work is in vain. Thanks for your help on this.
Medic School Preparation for medic school continues to be one of EMS's main objectives. There is an immense amount of work being put into this particular class as it will be under review and part of the process for our EMS accreditation is with The Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions (CoAEMSP). Much like our Fire Accreditation, CoAEMSP provides validation of well-prepared and qualified work forces in EMS. We are excited for this next group to become paramedics and to do so through this accreditation process.
Zoll Case Review At the Captains meeting we launched the opening of the Zoll Case Review Premium for Captains to playback and go over any codes you may run. Unfortunately, we keep locking out the account due to incorrect passwords being entered too many times. This forces us to go another direction and assign each Captain a personal account. We are in the process of making this happen and will let you know once it’s done. Once we have this heavy lift completed, the expectation moving forward will be that after you work a code where CPR and/or shocks were delivered, Captains log in and use this tool to review CPR/treatment performance with the crew.
ETCO2
ETCO2 is a very valuable tool to help drive patient care. EMS has put lots of emphasis on the use of ETCO2 as it certainly supports treatment decision making. Image Trend now has validations rules for ETCO2 on call types that it should be used on. 2
