[traumanurses] ED Physician Coverage

["Leiding, Lisa" <Lisa.Leiding@stvin.org>]

Hi,

We are the same way. Although we see about 65,000 in our ED annually we only have around 400 trauma admits per year. Our ED MD schedule is about the same as yours.

We have one physcian that works of each of these schedules each day.

7am to 1 pm
8 am to 4 pm
10 am to 10 pm
3 pm to 12 midnight
4 pm to 1 am
10 pm to 7am

Our MD's from the ED also respond to codes in the hospital until the primary care physician (who gets called at the same time) arrives. We also have hospitalists in house who can assist with the code or run the code if the ED MD needs to return to the ED.

In the three years I have been here - I have never had a house code and a Trauma STAT at the same time - have had two Trauma-STAT and Blue Alert in the ED with one MD - but the surgeon gets paged and most of them are here within 15 minutes anyway - so they just take over the trauma and the ED MD does the Blue Alert.

Lisa McLaughlin
Santa Fe, NM