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John M Gallagher, MD, FAEMSEMS Director/Medical Director
Wichita/Sedgwick County Kansas
EMS: Patient Care &
Operations
COVID-19 Clinical Rounds:
@JGallagherEMS
My full
contact info
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• Conflicts:
– None
• Disclosure:
– NAEMSP BOD
– KS Board of EMS Physician
Advisory Council
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Perspective
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3,056 + 22,143 = 25,199 total test results
3,056 / 25,199 = 12.1% of tests are positive
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I’ve been asked several times…
“What the biggest challenge that your
EMS system is facing?”
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Pre-covid, my system call types looked like this:
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…and now:
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One final point…
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National EMS Scope of Practice:
Need a
copy of the
document?
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Take home points…
(aka – “Stuff I didn’t expect to learn in early 2020”)
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Stuff I didn’t expect to learn in early
2020…
• There doesn’t seem to be a clear answer about how
many COVID tests to perform in a community…Very
smart people feel extremely passionate about both sides
of the argument.
• Most of our focus has been on COVID issues, but only a
tiny fraction of our patients have it. Taking steps to
mitigate the pandemic is critical, but it must be done in a
way that doesn’t hurt the rest of our patients.
• Even though COVID occupies 100% of the spotlight right
now, my community doesn’t qualify for crisis standard of
care and I must continue to meet the normal standard.
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Questions?
John M Gallagher, MD, FACEP, FAEMS
Emergency and EMS Physician
My full
contact info
@JGallagherEMS