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 1.8
The STEMI ALERT Packet: The Trigger for Reperfusion
Once a patient is diagnosed with a STEMI, the clock starts ticking, right? Delay equals cell death and every minute counts. However, the ED is such a busy place – how do you instantly shift focus from “everyone” (all your other patients) to “the one” (your newly diagnosed STEMI patient)? Not only that, but then how do you remember to do all the right things in the right order? Now that’s pressure!
To help solve this problem, a STEMI ALERT PACKET has been developed for your hospital. It contains all the information necessary to treat STEMI patients at your facility as efficiently as possible. What exactly does it contain? …..whatever works best at your facility! The STEMI ALERT Packet is your trigger for reperfusion. When a STEMI is recognized, someone (anyone) should immediately open a STEMI alert packet and pass out the enclosed forms.
Please review figure 7 for a view of a typical STEMI ALERT Packet. Yours will look very similar. STEMI ALERT Packets will be placed in one or more easily identified locations in your ED. Do you know where they are in your facility?
Remember: Whenever a STEMI is recognized; open “the red packet” – your “trigger” for reperfusion!