Core Procedures List
Description
Core Procedures List (This is not intended to be an all-encompassing procedures list. It defines the types of activities/procedures/privileges that the majority of practitioners in this specialty perform at this organization and inherent activities/procedures/privileges requiring similar skill sets and techniques.) Airway techniques - Airway adjuncts - Capnometry - Cricothyrotomy - Foreign body removal - Intubation - Mechanical ventilation - Noninvasive ventilator management - Percutaneous transtracheal ventilation Anesthesia - Local - Regional nerve block Diagnostic Procedures - Anoscopy - Arthrocentesis - Blood, fluid and component therapy administration - Compartment pressure measurement - Lumbar puncture - Nasogastric tube - Ultrasound Guided Paracentesis - Pericardiocentesis - Slit lamp examination - Thoracentesis - Tonometry Genital/urinary - Bladder catheterization (Foley catheter, suprapubic) - Testicular detorsion Head and neck - Control of epistaxis - Drainage of peritonsillar abscess - Laryngoscopy - Lateral canthotomy - Removal of rust ring - Tooth stabilization Hemodynamic techniques - Arterial catheter insertion - Central venous access - Intraosseous infusion - Peripheral venous cutdown Obstetrics - Delivery of newborn Other techniques - Bedside ultrasound - Escharotomy/burn management - Excision of thrombosed hemorrhoids - Foreign body removal - Gastric lavage - Gastrostomy tube replacement - Incision and drainage - Sexual assault examination - Trephination nails - Violent patient/restraint - Wound closure technique - Wound management Resuscitation - Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) - Neonatal resuscitation Skeletal procedures - Fracture/dislocation immobilization techniques - Fracture/dislocation reduction techniques - Spine immobilization techniques Thoracic - Cardiac pacing (cutaneous, transvenous) - Defibrillation/cardioversion - Thoracostomy - Thoracotomy
Details
Assignment or Specialty
Emergency Medicine
Active Active
Providers