Stroke Center Classification: Emergent Stroke Prep Center
ED Beds: 10
Fast Track Beds: 3
Total ED Beds: 13
EMR: Meditech
Scribes: No
Admitting %: 16%
Pediatric %: 17%
Bridge Orders: Yes
Bedside Ultrasound: Yes
Floor Codes: EM physicians attend floor codes
EM Physician Procedures: Airway Management (Intubation), Conscious Sedation (Physicians use Propofol), Central Lines, Chest Tubes
Imaging: CT 24/7, Ultrasound (Monday-Friday), MRI, Radiology (nighthawk service at night)
Back Up: General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology, Hospital Medicine Program (on call at nights), Cardiology (They keep STEMIs), Pulmonology, Neurology - consults with higher level hospital, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Limited ENT, Limited Urology, General Surgery, Tele ICU Support (keep critically ill patients)
No GI, No Nephrology
Transfers: Level I Trauma: Freeman or Mercy in Joplin, MO; Critically Ill Pediatrics: Children's Mercy (Kansas City); Burns: Kansas University or Cox Medical Center in Springfield
Requirements:
BE/BC Emergency Medicine (ABEM, ABOEM), BC FP with experience