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Emergency Procedure
Aka: Emergency Procedure, Emergency Department Procedure, Emergency Procedure Skills, High Acuity Low Opportunity Procedure, HALO Procedure, HALO Event- See Also
- Definitions
- High Acuity Low Opportunity Procedure (HALO Procedure, HALO Event)
- Risky, rare procedures (e.g. Cricothyrotomy) in life threatening events
- High Acuity Low Opportunity Procedure (HALO Procedure, HALO Event)
- Approach
- Maintaining procedural competence and proficiency
- We lose skills over time in procedures we perform infrequently
- Skills start waning as early as 2 months after the last time performed
- Practice procedural skills frequently (e.g. visualization, procedure courses)
- Schedule procedure self-study and practice frequently (e.g. one procedure per month for 30 minutes)
- Watch online procedure videos
- Improvise practice tools (e.g. toilet paper roll for Cricothyrotomy practice)
- Coordinate group procedure practice
- Use visualization to learn or prepare for a procedure
- Picture the scenario, the environment and the patient
- Visualize the step-by-step approach to performing the procedure
- Move your hands as if performing the procedure, and vocalize orders
- Orman, Herbert and Cloyd in Herbert (2017) EM:Rap 17(4):14
- Maintaining procedural competence and proficiency
- Procedure: Airway
- Airway Adjuncts
- Definitive Airway
- Failed Airway
- Procedure: Breathing
- Procedure: Circulation
- Access: Child and Adult
- Access: Newborns
- Monitoring
- Pericardium
- Arrhythmia
- Resuscitation
- Trauma
- Procedure: Head and Neck
- Procedure: Abdomen
- Procedure: Musculoskeletal
- Procedure: Neurologic
- Procedure: Dental
- Procedure: Skin
- Trauma
- Infection
- Nails
- Diagnostics
- Skin Biopsy