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 […]

Errors with new server fixed.

Server errors fixed. Setting changed – disable strict mode. — for my future reference: in my.ini file (C:\wamp64\bin\mysql\mysql5.7.26) uncomment this: sql-mode=”” and comment out this line: ;sql-mode=”STRICT_ALL_TABLES,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_ZERO_DATE,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER” See https://www.linode.com/community/questions/17070/how-can-i-disable-mysql-strict-mode

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 […]

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 […]