Abstract
Session G presented Friday, September 28, 1:00-2:00 pm
Purpose: With the growing number of free-standing emergency departments (FSEDs) in Colorado, it is essential for these facilities to appropriately stabilize and transfer patients suffering from a myocardial infarction to a higher level of care. Two hospital-affiliated FSEDs have a Cardiac Alert policy and protocol in place to address this growing concern and have documented success in doing so, with a transfer time and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) less than the national goal.
Design: This is a quality assurance project. Setting: The setting takes place at two Denver-area, hospital-affiliated free-standing emergency departments.
Participants/Subjects: The data includes patients that were diagnosed with a myocardial infarction in the ED and transferred and treated at the affiliated hospital, focusing on the door to transfer and door to dilatation of the coronary vessels.
Methods: Data was collected and compiled from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) specific to both FSEDs. The data includes the transferred in time to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Results/Outcomes: From Q315 to Q417, data from the NCDR was analyzed and a preliminary average of about 82 minutes transferred in time to PCI was obtained. The outcomes of this project suggest the importance of the cardiac alert process, policy, and protocol for rapid treatment and intervention.
Implications: The importance of this project, and it's implications to emergency nursing, is to bring education and awareness for other facilities and FSEDs and to have an effective policy and protocol in place to provide rapid and quality treatment to patients with myocardial infarctions.
Sigma Membership
Non-member
Type
Poster
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
N/A
Research Approach
N/A
Keywords:
Cardiac Alert, Cardiac, Free-standing ED
Recommended Citation
Hooper, Kayla and Harris, Alicia, "Cardiac alert process at Denver area free-standing emergency departments" (2019). General Submissions: Presenations (Oral and Poster). 85.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/gen_sub_presentations/2018/posters/85
Conference Name
Emergency Nursing 2018
Conference Host
Emergency Nurses Association
Conference Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Conference Year
2018
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Cardiac alert process at Denver area free-standing emergency departments
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Session G presented Friday, September 28, 1:00-2:00 pm
Purpose: With the growing number of free-standing emergency departments (FSEDs) in Colorado, it is essential for these facilities to appropriately stabilize and transfer patients suffering from a myocardial infarction to a higher level of care. Two hospital-affiliated FSEDs have a Cardiac Alert policy and protocol in place to address this growing concern and have documented success in doing so, with a transfer time and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) less than the national goal.
Design: This is a quality assurance project. Setting: The setting takes place at two Denver-area, hospital-affiliated free-standing emergency departments.
Participants/Subjects: The data includes patients that were diagnosed with a myocardial infarction in the ED and transferred and treated at the affiliated hospital, focusing on the door to transfer and door to dilatation of the coronary vessels.
Methods: Data was collected and compiled from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) specific to both FSEDs. The data includes the transferred in time to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Results/Outcomes: From Q315 to Q417, data from the NCDR was analyzed and a preliminary average of about 82 minutes transferred in time to PCI was obtained. The outcomes of this project suggest the importance of the cardiac alert process, policy, and protocol for rapid treatment and intervention.
Implications: The importance of this project, and it's implications to emergency nursing, is to bring education and awareness for other facilities and FSEDs and to have an effective policy and protocol in place to provide rapid and quality treatment to patients with myocardial infarctions.