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 1.6
The four keys to STEMI identification and management
To help standardize your approach to STEMI management, we have condensed the day-to-day detection and management of STEMI into a simple process involving the four key steps depicted on this flowchart (figure 5). Please review carefully! These actions are at the “heart” of success! They simply must become “hardwired” into the day-to-day flow of your emergency department. Are they?
The importance of these “critical” actions can not be overestimated. Sustained success in treating STEMI is dependent on these actions being repeated 24/7, every single shift of the year. If this doesn’t happen, sooner or later you will miss a STEMI or have a preventable delay. However, the reverse is also true; if you can do these four actions consistently, you can’t help but improve!
Remember this: Standardization and simplification reduce error. Doesn’t every pilot use a pre-flight checklist? Absolutely. They know that simple actions done the same way every time are the best way to avoid “simple” errors. And simple errors are usually at the root of large errors!
Remember: The four key steps are the secret to success. Follow them 24/7.