The Trauma Pro
JULY 19, 2024
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?
The Trauma Pro
JULY 16, 2024
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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The Trauma Pro
MAY 9, 2023
” 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.
American Medical Compliance
MARCH 11, 2024
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.
The Trauma Pro
JUNE 20, 2023
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.
EMDocs
OCTOBER 3, 2023
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.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 13, 2024
Her first set of vitals were documented: BP 116/57 Pulse 94bpm Respiratory rate 24/min O2 sat 90% on room air Temp 97F She had been cleaning a Jeep in the sun, and was sunburned. The physician documented “normal sinus rhythm”. The physician documented that she was “improved” and the patient was discharged. CK MB was 1.9
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