The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse is a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine podcast breaking down topics and case studies into simple easy-to-digest segments to help build paramedic, nurse, and other pre-hospital and hospital clinicians into more robust providers. This podcast is open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Every effort is made to put out as many various topics to cater to everyone's interests and levels. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
**Disclosures:
1) This is a non-monetary podcast, created and edited for free for your enjoyment and learning purposes.
2) The opinions and information presented in these podcast episodes is based off of up-to-date research, the latest evidence-based-guidelines, and/or anecdotal experience/opinions of the author.
3) Under no circumstances does this podcast or the information presented within each episode serve as authorization to work outside your guidelines, protocols, or workplace rules otherwise. When in doubt, contact Medical Control for guidance.
The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 97 - PIFT vs CCT...A Hospital "How-To"
The world of PIFT protocols vs CCT can be a very confusing place for sending hospitals to dwell in and navigate. Some crews are able to take patients at higher levels of care needs than others. Some don't have the same training or experience, or more importantly, the confidence and comfort levels. Many PIFT paramedics have been pressured or even threatened in their career either by their own management or hospital management to take a patient that it was potentially unsafe to do so for many reasons. This episode navigates the grey areas between PIFT and CCT, including the alternative staffing and exceptions, what processes' must be followed, etc, in the hopes of making this easier for sending hospital staff. Just remember that at least in our state of NH, the PIFT paramedic has the final say in whether they take a patient based on comfort level, not the hospital, not the ambulance service managers, even if the call has already been booked.
