Procedural frequency: Results from 18 academic, community and freestanding emergency departments

Procedural frequency: Results from 18 academic, community and freestanding emergency departments

Do ELS; Smalley CM; Meldon SW; Borden BL; Briskin I; Muir MR; Suchan A; Delgado F; Fertel BS

Journal Of The American College Of Emergency Physicians Open

2020

2020-09-26

Emergency physicians must maintain procedural skills, but clinical opportunities may be insufficient. We sought to determine how often practicing emergency physicians in academic, community and freestanding emergency departments (EDs) perform 4 procedures: central venous catheterization (CVC), tube thoracostomy, tracheal intubation, and lumbar puncture (LP).

This was a retrospective study evaluating emergency physician procedural performance over a 12-month period. We collected data from the electronic records of 18 EDs in one healthcare system. The study EDs included higher and lower volume, academic, community and freestanding, and trauma and non-trauma centers. The main outcome measures were median number of procedures performed. We examined differences in procedural performance by physician years in practice, facility type, and trauma status.

© 2020 The Authors. JACEP Open published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Journal Article

NEOMED College of Medicine

Department of Emergency Medicine

Jan to Aug list 2021