Many of you have trained in CLEAR conversations, which is an offshoot of Vital Talk. They have put together the following resource for difficult conversations surrounding COVID-19 Sharing in case it is of use to you as you care for these patients. https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ78DAT1hrOyxPnPhRnXJIj91uCyBO26L1h7NtoUMLF8sj3O_RJpMu4IENyGqVYprI-_8YgLQnP7_dP/pub ICU end of life Family Support with scripting examples
Author: Michael Lazar
Back Up System Faculty COVID-19 (2020)
This Back-up system is created to cover the essential CORE INPATIENT Rotations. It does NOT include coverage for the individual services like IP, Pulmonary Hypertension, Lung Transplant, ILD. These services are already working on putting together a coverage system. To maintain fairness of this Back-Up Schedule, we used the list of rotations from Momentum, but […]
Death Certificate Data to send to support staff
test test test While support staff are working from home, death certificate data will still need to be entered by a senior staff. Here is the excel sheet that should be completed and emailed to Sharron.
Interventional Pulmonary (IP) COVID-19 Policies
As of 3/16/2020 Due to the significant and dramatic change in the environment regarding COVID-19, all Bronchoscopy and IP procedures were reviewed for the next 2 weeks. Each case was classified and in cases of Non-Urgent and Routine, patients were contacted, and intervention discussed with them. Bronchoscopic procedure Classification and Prioritization standardized.
ICU Guidelines on Management of Cardiac Arrest in a patient with suspected COVID
The situation surrounding COVID-19 is rapidly changing and affected by availability of resources, discovery of new cases and availability of new information coming from areas already under strain from the disease. Currently the CDC advises health care providers caring for COVID 19 confirmed or suspected patients to utilize surgical mask, gown, gloves and eye shield […]
New Health Maintenance Topic for COPD Assessment Test (CAT)
New Health Maintenance Topic for COPD Assessment Test Target Audience: Ambulatory Providers Date of Change: Currently effective Reason: Enhancement Description: There is a new annual Health Maintenance topic and plan called COPD Assessment Test (CAT). It is completed by doing COPD Assesssment Test (CAT) screening. Providers should complete the entire screening and generate a total score in order […]
Use of M*Modal voice recognition software
Attached are documents necessary to get started with M*Modal get started with M*Modal, set up the Philips Microphone Driver and download and use the M*Modal microphone app Here are FAQs regarding M*Modal How will the change over happen for those who already use MModal? The servers will start to migrate to MModal on the weekend. This means during […]
Didactic lecture schedule January – June 2020
Attached is the didactic lecture schedule for January 2020 – June 2020
E-consults
UPDATE with new TIP Sheet. E-consults has gone live in the pulmonary division via Epic. Here is the attached E-Consults Tip Sheet v12> Tip Sheet to both generate and respond to an e-consult Important things to note: 5 business day specialty turnaround time (or better); this should be handled by the assigned checker on the date/time […]
ECMO care team (ECT)
There are now a core group of critical care physicians comprising ECMO rounding staff. These individuals will be primarily managing these patients with the critical care fellow and resident/APP as part of a ECMO Care Team (ECT). The process was started on 1/21/2019; the details are in this attachment. When the Team is needed, the caller will dial […]