Abscess incision and drainage, including Bartholins cyst
Admission from the Emergency Department
Administration of thrombolytic therapy for myocardial infarction, stroke
Airway management and intubation
Anesthesia, intravenous (upper extremity, local, and regional)
Application of splints and plaster molds
Arrange appropriate follow-up or referral as required
Arterial blood gases
Arterial puncture and cannulations
Arthrocentesis
Assess, evaluate, diagnose, and initially treat patients who present in the ED with any system, illness, injury, or condition and provide services to ameliorate minor illness or injuries
Bladder decompression and catheterization techniques
Blood component transfusion therapy
Burn management, including escharotomy
Cannulation, artery and vein
Cardiac massage, open or closed
Cardiac pacing to include, but not limited to, external, transthoracic, and transvenous
Cardioversion (synchronized counter shock)
Cautery for bleeding
Central venous access (femoral, jugular, peripheral, internal, subclavian, and cutdowns)
Chemical restraint of agitated patient
Core privileges in this specialty include the procedures listed and such other procedures that are extensions of the same techniques and skills
Cricothyroidotomy
Defibrillation
Delivery of newborn, emergency
Dental caries/injuries/infections or bleeding
Dislocation/fracture reduction/immobilization techniques
Electrocardiography interpretation
Endotracheal intubation techniques, to include rapid sequence induction
External transcutaneous pacemaker
Foreign body removal, other , including C-arm fluoroscopy
GI decontamination (emesis, lavage, charcoal)
Hemodynamic monitoring, including Swan Ganz
Hernia reduction
Immobilization techniques
Incision and drainage, cyst, carbuncle, abscess, other
Injection, radiographic contrast media
Insertion of emergency transvenous pacemaker
Interpretation, laboratory studies
Interpretation, radoiographic studies
Intra-arterial blood pressure monitoring
Intracardiac injection
Intraosseous infusion
Irrigation and management of caustic exposures
Laryngoscopy, direct and indirect
Lumbar puncture
Management of epistaxis
Nail trephine techniques
Nasal cautery/packing
Naso pharyngeal endoscopy
Nasogastric/orogastric intubation
Needle thoracostomy
Neuromuscular block/other blocks
Ocular Tonometry
Oxygen therapy
Paracentesis
Parenteral sedation and analgesia
Percutansous transtracheal ventilation
Perform history and physical examination
Pericardiocentesis, emergency only
Peripheral venous cutdown
Peritoneal lavage
Preliminary interpretation of plain films
Removal of foreign bodies from airway, including nose, eye, and ear, soft instrumentation/irrigation, skin, or subcutaneous tissue
Removal of IUD
Repair of lacerations
Request consultations and technical procedures to be performed by other physicians and qualified consultants/technicians
Restraint Management
Respirators, mechanical and manual
Resuscitation, all ages
Slit lamp used for ocular exam, removal of corneal foreign body
Spine immobilization
Splinting, casting, or immobilization of simple fractures
Thoracentesis
Thoracostomy tube insertion
Thoracotomy, open for patient in extremis
Tracheostomy, emergency
Triage: multiple casualty
Ultrasonography, bedside
Use of manual and mechanical ventilators and resuscitators
Variceal/nonvariceal hemostasis
Wound debridement and repair
Write admitting/holding orders for inpatient or observation care in consultation with a treating physician or hospitalist
Administration of sedation (moderate) and analgesia
Administration of sedation (deep) and analgesia