How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident (2017)
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#4Does "crumped" in this context mean a sudden deterioration? (ie. crumpled)
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#5The author's key takeaway is "flow is king", but what stuck me most was giving people freedom to do their job -- e.g., giving the nurses unrestricted access to the medication, letting the CT tech focus on their job, roaming ER doctors, delegating triage to a nurse, etc. -- the success here came from giving people responsibility and trusting them.
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#6Does "crumped" in this context mean a sudden deterioration? (ie. crumpled)
Wiktionary says crump means "(intransitive, US, medical slang) (of one's health) to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash)."
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#7Does "crumped" in this context mean a sudden deterioration? (ie. crumpled)
Paramedic: Yes, it does.
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#8Dr Joshua Corso was the Senior Resident on duty the night of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, and had a photo of his trainers covered in blood go viral.
I saw him do a talk at an EMS conference a few years back that was both profoundly touching and deeply insightful, and talked about all the things you might not think of (at one point, there was a lot of banging from something nearby the ED, that made people think there was more shooting, and so they had locked it down further, which made some of the efforts more difficult (moving people from ED to theater, for example).
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#9The author's key takeaway is "flow is king", but what stuck me most was giving people freedom to do their job -- e.g., giving the nurses unrestricted access to the medication, letting the CT tech focus on their job, roaming ER doctors, delegating triage to a nurse, etc. -- the success here came from giving people responsibility and trusting them.
Some of this can be applied to normal day-to-day running, outside of a crisis.
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#10I’m surprised reports were generated quicker when the radiologist worked with the X-ray tech.
Back when I did x-rays, a quick radiologist could report a set of films in about a minute.
I could X-ray 6 patients per hour (whilst doing data entry, billing, walking them to the room etc as well). I doubt I’d have been much more than twice as fast if the admin was skipped.