Harbor:Main

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General Administrative

• Administrative resident directions
• Receiving Phone Calls
  • Harbor:Critical Result Callback
• Triaging Ambulance Runs
• EKG Screening
• Pre-shift: 5S

Managing your Patient

Ordering

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

Documenting

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

Procedures

• Equipment
• Consenting a patient

Finding Things

• Forms
• Paging consults

Special patient types

• Occupational exposure
• Sepsis
  • Harbor antibiotics in sepsis
  • Sepsis core measures
• Acute stroke
• AVF/graft complications
• Respiratory isolation

Patient Disposition

Discharging a Patient

• ED follow up flow chart
• ED Follow-Up
• Coumadin clinic
• Expedited workup clinic
• Prescribing

Admitting a patient

• Who goes to what service (Admission and consultation guidelines)
  • Internal Medicine Admissions
  • C-Team Admissions
  • Who Goes to Family Medicine
• Paging consultants

Other

• Deceased patients
• Transfers

Disaster

• General disaster info
• Harbor:Surge plan
• Suspected Ebola protocol

See Also

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

Pre-hospital/Surge Plans

Ambulance Triage

• Screening EMS Patients

Surge Criteria and Plan

• Harbor Surge Plan/Disasters
• Harbor disaster plan

Orchid Downtime

• ORCHID Downtime

ID: Flu, Hepatitis, Ebola

• Infectious Disease Threats

Radiology

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

• Equipment (AED/RME)
• Equipment (peds)

Ordering DME

• Durable Medical Equipment (DME)

IA/Exposures

Occupational Exposure

• Industrial or On-the-Job Accidents (IA)

Sexual Assult/STI Exposure

• Sexual Assult/STI Exposure

Patient Disposition

F/up Flowchart

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Law Enforcement Escort

• Prescribing

Other

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

ADMISSIONS

Admission Policy

• Admitting a patient

OBS & CORE

• Observation placement
• CORE placement

Admission Guidelines

• Admission and consultation guidelines (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

Insurance Problems

1. For issues with insurance, refer patients to the CA Dept of Managed Healthcare: https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/

Physicians

STEMI Activation

• ECG STEMI screening