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Intubation Stats
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I am looking for different ideas of how different services track their intubations and the criteria that you track. i am getting ready to do our 2nd/3rd quarter stats and I'm tired of our stat sheet. If anyone has a form they are willing to share ...
November 4
Jonathan, Thanks for taking the time to send your form to me - greatly appreciated.
November 4
Delaware defines an intubation attempt as the blade passing the patient's teeth, even if no tube is introduced. Four attempts are permitted for each patient, two per paramedic before a rescue airway must be placed. There's a comments section on th...
November 3
Jeff, The department I work for has a separate intubation form that is completed along with the patient care report and signed by the receiving Physician. the form is then used for statistics and also as a QA/QI device to see how our personnel ar...
November 3
I think that any statistics about intubation need to include a graded airway, and a situational explanation for each intubation. It's easy to say that Oh, we only have a 45% success rate (Just throwing a number out there), maybe we should just thr...
November 3
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I am looking for different ideas of how different services track their intubations and the criteria that you track. i am getting ready to do our 2nd/3rd quarter stats and I'm tired of our stat sheet. If anyone has a form they are willing to share ...
November 3
I will send feedback on Bill's Tactical Medic class, I start it Mon. As far as the other comments regarding 'professionalism', EMS is and will continue to be "the red head bas.... of 1st responders". Has anyone else noticed how EMS is never mentio...
June 26
All the ED's in our area accept the 12-leads that are faxed from the field. We have been meet by a cardiologist in the ED, in our garage and have taken some straight to the cath lab. This did not come quickly but over time. It took getting all dep...
April 20

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Paramedic/EMT-I/EMT-D, EMS Coordinator
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