Harbor:Main

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

Admin Updates

  • Interqual
    • Admitting for WORK-UP will never meet (be creative, talk to UR, and find an actual admission diagnosis)
    • Ever wonder why you need an override note? Here are some top diagnoses and what makes them meet
      • Abdominal pain - will not meet (only obs)
      • Chest Pain - STEMI, NSTEMI, or suspected ACS with
        • new LBBB,
        • unstable angina and IV NTG, or
        • 2 or more doses of morphine
      • Anaphylaxis - inhaler Q2 hours, impending intubation or on BiPAP
      • Anemia - only for symptomatic hemolytic anemia with Hgb <10 AND
        • Hgb q12 hrs with transfusion or
        • steroids, immunotherapy, or immunoglobin
      • A-fib/flutter:
      • Asthma:
      • Cellulitis
      • COPD
      • DVT
      • DKA
      • Gastroenteritis/Dehydration
      • GI Bleed
      • CHF
      • HTN
      • Migraine
      • Nephrolithiasis
      • Hypoglycemia
      • Pneumonia
      • PE
      • Pyelonephritis
      • Sickle Cell
      • Stroke
      • Syncope
      • TIA

General Administrative

Ambulance (EMS) Triage

Administrative duties

Administrative resources

RME & triage

Harbor ED policy manual

Harbor Legal

Managing your Patient

General

On shift (PC) Cheat Sheet

Paging consultants

Phone numbers

Radiology directory

Tests & Orders


Radiology

Radiology Hours

[Radiology Directory]

Urgent Outpatient IR

STAT MRI

Upload Outside Films to PACS

  • Get form from clerk
  • Put patient sticker on Form
  • Check "Import"
  • Sign

Get Images on Disc (For DC or Transfer)

  • Same as upload EXCEPT
    • Check "Export"
    • Write time frame on form you want studies from

Blood products

Antibiogram

Finding Equipment/DME

E supplies A-Z

Procedures

Special patient types

Code Activations

Social Work

Opiate Withdrawal/MAT/BUP

Placement patients

PE Response Team

Psych Patients (Exodus)

Harbor: Identifying Jane/John Doe, finding next of kin tips

Scheduled dialysis patients in ED

Sepsis

Sepsis core measures

Occupational Exposure

Sexual Assault/STI Exposure (SART)

Infectious Disease Threats

Transferring_a_patient

Patient Disposition

Discharge

ED Follow-Up Options

DC with meds in ED

  • Eye drops (vanco & tobra) and STI prophylaxis for home
  • HIV prophylaxis for sexual assault patients (raltegravir and Truvada)


Transportation Needs

Social EM resources

Admission

Admission Guidelines

Interqual Override Notes

Right level of care

OBS & CORE


Dialysis in the ED

Other Disposition

Transferring a patient

Documentation

Disaster & Surge

Resident Education

See Also