Provider Training Module Written Tutorial
Introduction
- 1.1: The Project UPSTART Provider Education Tutorial
- 1.2: What exactly is STEMI?
- 1.3: STEMI treatment: The theory behind the “need for speed”
- 1.4: Treatment of STEMI
- 1.5: What exactly is “Project UPSTART”?
- 1.6: The four keys to STEMI identification and management
- 1.7: Recognition: the first Key Step
- 1.8: The STEMI ALERT Packet: The Trigger for Reperfusion
- 1.9: Inside the STEMI ALERT Packet
- 1.10: Individual roles of the STEMI care team
- 1.11: Completing Data Sheets A & B
- 1.12: Data Sheets A and B: The Key to Continued Success
- 1.13: STEMI ALERT Data Management: Put That Data to Work!
- 1.14: A final review of the four keys steps
Training Tutorial 1.12
Data Sheets A and B: The Key to Continued Success
People ask “Why more paperwork?
I thought you are trying to make this easier!” The answer is simple: The information you record on Data sheets A & B is very important in reviewing each STEMI case. 
This continuing reassessment allows us to look for little things that will improve future STEMI alerts. It also lets us identify problem events and prevent them from happening again. There is simply no easier way to collect this data than to write it down as it occurs. In reality, having everything right in one location actually decreases your paperwork! No more hunting around for forms.
We do realize your time is very important (we work in the ED too) so we have made completing these forms as simple as possible. Plus, completing these sheets is one more way of cuing you to do the right thing – in the right order.
Why two data sheets instead of just one?
So, why do we need both Data Sheet A and B if the documents are essentially the same? Because each one has a different function and they end up in different locations. Plus, what happens if one gets lost? It’s like having a spare key under the rock near your front door.
Having two data sheets is particularly important if the patient is transferred to the cath lab or to another hospital. Data Sheet B is that continuing link that allows us to calculate each patients total reperfusion time – regardless of where (or how) reperfusion occurs. And having that information is the way we measure our success!
Remember: The yellow sheet (Data sheet B) is always sent with the patient when they leave the ED.