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South Denver EMS Team - In partnership with EMS to improve patient care and outcomes

Porter, Littleton, Parker, and Castle Rock Adventist Hospitals' South Denver EMS Team provides education, training, quality improvement, quality assurance, process improvement, preventative care and wellness initiatives, research opportunities and resource support to the regional EMS and lay community.

Research Articles - 1.   Medical Research and the Sleeper Curve
                                 2.  Endovascular Treatment For Acute Stroke
                                 3.  CT For All Or A Selective Approach?
                                 4.  The Effect Of An Ambulance Diversion Ban On E.D. Length Of Stay And Ambulance Turn Around

ASLS Instructor Course Info - July 22, 2013 St Francis Medical Center, Colorado Springs

NEW - Spring 2013 ON ALERT

Updated Alert Cards here

TWO STUDIES EXAMINING PREHOSPITAL PROVIDER SEPSIS IDENTIFICATION AND TREATMENT

Our Education Calendar can be found under the Education button along with other resources including the CDPHE Education Calendar, and other topics.  Also there you can find the CDPHE licensing and renewal information.

Links to area EMS agencies are readily available in the button above.  The Denver Metro EMS Protocols link is located in the right sidebar along with Centura’s Job’s and Careers link as well as a path to provide compliments or suggestions.

The content of our laminated cards including Cardiac Alert, Stroke Alert, Sepsis Alert, and others including Radio Report Format, Patient Refusal Check Sheet, and Glasgow/Apgar scales are included in the “EMS Resources & Protocols” button.

The “CEQIR” button contains Quality and Research information including the South Denver EMS Quality Council and the Newsletters to date.  Check back often for updates, upcoming events, etc.

NEW  We have added the "Recognition" tab above to begin recognizing and acknowledging the efforts and rewards of our team and our EMS partners.  Please note that we wish this to include our EMS Community.  "We seek to recognize or acknowledge individual or group achievements, efforts, and awards received.  We believe that most are won on behalf of other's efforts as well with the individual or group's efforts in leadership or coordination.  We encourage you to let us know when someone that you know receives such recognition so that we can include them in this page."

Centura South Denver EMS Team Director Mike Grill introduces Jeff Beeson, D.O., Medical Director for the Emergency Physicians Advisory Board, (providing Medical Direction for the MedStar EMS system in Fort Worth, Texas) to regional EMS and Hospital representatives.  Dr. Beeson presented a comprehensive overview of the role of the EMS provider in community health at Littleton Adventist Hospital on August 21, 2012.  Read excerpt from JEMS.

In addtion to the many heart and brain dissection labs presented in the South Denver Region, Advanced Airway labs using simulation manikins and animal anatomy are being presented by our EMS Team to regional EMS providers.

 


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