Harbor:Main

This is the main page for Harbor-UCLA emergency department; See Pediatric ED for the main Harbor pediatric page.

Message of the Moment

Check here for the latest in ED administrative news!

General Administrative

• Pre-hospital
  • Incoming transfers
  • Screening EMS Patients
  • Triaging Ambulance Runs
• Administrative duties
  • Administrative resident directions
  • Receiving Phone Calls
    • Critical Result Callback
  • EKG Screening
  • Pre-shift: 5S
• Administrative resources
  • Core Measures
  • Harbor ED policy manual
  • RME & triage
  • ED attending on call plan
  • Harbor Legal

Managing your Patient

Ordering & Testing

• Ordering a Formal Ultrasound
• Ultrasound approval list
• Ordering a CT
• Ordering Blood Products
• Ordering antibiotics
  • Harbor antibiogram
  • Harbor antibiotics in sepsis
    • Sepsis core measures
• Labs

Radiology

• MRI Specs
• CT Specs
• Formal & ED Ultrasounds
• STAT MRI
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Procedures

• Consenting a patient
• Equipment (AED/RME)

Finding Things

• Forms
• Equipment
  • Equipment (AED/RME)
  • Equipment (peds)
  • Durable Medical Equipment (DME)

Consults

• Paging consults
• Social work
• Whole person care

Other

• Forms
• PC Cheat Sheet
• Phone numbers

Special patient types

• Activations
  • Airway management team
  • Code Stroke
  • STEMI Activation
  • Trauma Activations
• Sepsis
  • Harbor antibiotics in sepsis
  • Sepsis core measures
• AVF/graft complications
• Respiratory isolation
• Scheduled dialysis patients in ED
• Occupational Exposure
• Industrial or On-the-Job Accidents (IA)
• Sexual Assault/STI Exposure

Patient Disposition

Discharging a Patient

• ED Follow-Up
  • ED follow up flow chart
• Coumadin clinic
• Expedited workup clinic
• Prescribing
• ED Follow-Up Clinics
• Law Enforcement Escort
• Prescribing

Admission, OBS, & CORE

• Admitting a patient
  • Admission and consultation guidelines (Who goes to what service; policy 312)
    • Right level of care
    • Internal Medicine Admission Template
    • C-Team Admissions
    • Who Goes to Family Medicine
  • Post-admission management/Orders on Admitted Patients
  • Direct Admission after Hours
• OBS & CORE
  • Observation placement
  • CORE placement
• Paging consultants

Other Disposition

• Deceased patients
• Transferring a patient
  • Transferring to psych ER

Documentation

• Attending Documentation
• Resident documentation
• Prescribing
• Codes
• Macros and Autotext
• Consenting a Patient
  • File:Harbor-Photo-Consent.pdf

Disaster

• General disaster info
• Surge plan
• Suspected Ebola protocol
• Harbor Surge Plan/Disasters
• Harbor disaster plan
• ORCHID Downtime
• Infectious Disease Threats

See Also

• Harbor:VA MICU rotation
• Harbor:Teaching Rounds Topics
• Harbor:How to get started in research at Harbor
• Harbor:RME Manual
• Harbor:Code STEMI