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How Often Should My Trauma Operations Committee Meet?

The Trauma Pro

As you know, one other mandatory committee is required of all trauma centers, the Trauma Operations Committee (Ops). In this post, I will: describe how often your operations committee should meet help you determine whether your two committees should meet on the same day or separately How Often? Is it the same as your PI committee?

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How to Ensure Dental Regulatory Compliance 

American Medical Compliance

Amidst the busy dental appointments, treatments, and patient care, there are crucial aspects that often operate in the background but hold importance. These are recordkeeping and documentation. While the primary focus in dentistry is patient health and well-being, carefully keeping records is equally needed.

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How Often Should My Trauma Multidisciplinary Performance Improvement Committee Meet?

The Trauma Pro

Every trauma center is required to have two specific committees: a multidisciplinary trauma performance improvement committee (PI) and a trauma operations committee (ops). In my next post, I’ll cover this same topic for your trauma operations committee. However, a common question is, “How often do my committees need to meet?”

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 87: Conquering Mid-Shift Overwhelm

EMDocs

This is also where keeping up with documentation starts to slip. You’ll need to put the following tasks in a rank order list: new patient evaluations, dispositions, managing critical or potentially critical patients, results review, team huddle, running the board, calling consults, doing procedures, and documentation. It’s up to you.

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How Fast Do Trauma Patients Die?

The Trauma Pro

” This concept served as the basis of the [poorly documented] “Golden Hour” and for decades has directed our efforts at getting patients to a center with an immediately available OR as quickly as possible. Donald Trunkey published the first paper illustrating the trimodal distribution of death in 1983 in Scientific American.

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Nursing Malpractice: The Basics – Part 1

The Trauma Pro

Documentation provided by the nurse or other providers in the medical record must demonstrate that they were in some way involved in care of the patient. For example, wound infections occur after a given percentage of operations, and it varies based on the wound classification.

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OSHA Compliance in Dentistry: Creating a Safe Work Environment 

American Medical Compliance

Dental practices must maintain radiation safety protocols and provide radiation safety training for staff operating radiographic equipment. This can be achieved by maintaining a centralized document repository. Have a digital document management system or a physical binder in a prominent area of the dental office.

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