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Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine Symposium

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

1:00 pm COPD – Systemic Ster/Role Abx
  Amitesh Agarwal, MBBS
PCCM Fellow
Division of Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
       
2:00 pm
COPD – O2/LVRS/Survival   Amitesh Agarwal, MBBS
PCCM Fellow
Division of Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
 
3:00 pm Faculty Wrap Up   Gulshan Sharma, MD, MPH
Director
Division of Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
 
Location: Location: 5.140 John Sealy Annex (PCCSM Conference Room)

The department of internal medicine is developing evidence based clinical protocols which will be available in EPIC (as order sets) for use when admitting patients with these diagnoses. Their AIM is to standardize care and decrease length of stay and readmission rates.

Currently available protocols are:
  • CAP - Community Acquired Pneumonia Orderset
  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
  • Diabetic Ketoacidosis Adult, ICU
  • General Medicine Admission
  • Immunodeficiency Flow Panel
  • MICU/CCU Admission Order Set
  • Oral Analgesic Medicaitons
  • Parenteral Opioids
  • Sepsis, Adult ICU

All protocols can be found in the EPIC order set section.

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